In the world today many parents send their children to daycare when they go to work. All daycares show that they are safe, fun, and filled with love; that isn’t always the case.

Most toddlers make friends quickly which makes where they are tolerable and fun. As young children they do not understand what a young adult/adult is capable of or what the grown up world is like.

A good daycare should have a stimulating learning curriculum , a good staff; it should be clean ,  up to date license. Overall the daycare facility should be a fun and clean environment.  What parents tend to do when finding a great daycare for their child is they get good recommendations from previous people. They look for signs of an organized day and they make sure the teachers are fully developed in child care. The key that parents never forget to do is follow their gut feeling. If something doesn’t feel right they shouldn’t send their kid there.

Depending on the state some providers only need minimal or no training in safety, health , or child development. Child Care workers should have proper training in health , safety, and child care.

Since some childcare workers are so poorly paid it doesn’t attract the highly skilled workers. In 2011, the median annual salary for a child care worker was 19,430, less than a parking lot attendant or a janitor.

At a daycare in Vicksburg, Mississippi, a case of a child abusing the other children while at daycare arose. The teachers let the nine year old child run unsupervised for twenty minutes; within those twenty minutes the child had ran around abusing all the children. The abuse consisted of biting, hair pulling, punching,  and dropping young kids on their heads.

Overall what the child was doing was being a bully towards the other children. The mother who had the child who was  dropped on their head noticed that he had a serious injury and later filed a police report.

Roxanne Coulson, a daycare worker in Moline, Illinois is on trial for slapping a one year old in the face. When the child was picked up from daycare her parents noticed that the child was beaten and bruised. According to the young child’s parents there was a handprint on the child’s face. The coloring on the child’s face was purple and blue from where the child care teacher had hit her.

Another day care in New Jersey, Jersey City,  three teachers were charged with child abuse. One teacher was dragging children and hitting them as a form of punishment for doing something wrong. The teacher was charged, and was sentenced with five years in prison.

A possible reason why these stories about brutal childcares may be the lack of of funding for childcare on a national level. If there were government run childcare centers there would be higher standards and background checks on who gets the job.

Reasons why they would get background checks is because when you get a government job they do through searches of the person applying for the job. Also when you apply they require interviews to get to know the person.

One possible way to fix the large amount of kids since there aren’t government run day cares , is the kids should be monitored more strictly. At good run daycares this is what happens but at poorly run daycares it sadly does not.

In most situations where child abuse is reported at daycares, the day care is underfunded and the employees aren’t trained properly, and they have more children than they are supposed to have.

Child abuse at daycares is wrong and inhumane but one thing that parents can do to keep their kids safe is to look at the obvious signs. The obvious signs include how safe the place looks, how respectful the people are, how clean the place is, how the kids are behaving, and how organized the place is.  

In Morgan Hill, California in 2013 one daycare worker was charged with child endangerment. The 59 year old daycare worker would drug the kids with sleeping pills so they would sleep longer. She said drugging the kids would “save her the headache.” The kids would sleep four times as long as they should normally nap for. They said the only reasons she was caught was because one parent came to pick up her child early and caught the worker right in the middle of slipping a pill into the child’s juice.

Daycares aren’t always the safest place for young children. If you are thinking about sending your child to daycare read the reviews, visit the place before enrolling your kids, and check for obvious signs. There are great daycares you just have to pick the right one.