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<blockquote data-quote="FlowerGarden" data-source="post: 683275" data-attributes="member: 3068"><p>Somewhere Out There,</p><p>the "20" I meant was that we only had 1 or 2 kindergarten children in our childcare program a few years ago and now we have 20 that age. More families have two parents working when their children are young than they did before, at least in my area. We have several difficult children in our care. They get mad and bang their fists on tables, kick chairs or overturn them, one has repeatedly banged his head on the desk, yell at us, scream at the top of their lungs, 2 have hit an adult, one said he wanted to bring a gun in and shoot everyone, and more. All of that from children in K through 2nd grade. One parent actually told us that she leaves her son with us as long as possible because she doesn't want to put up with his "nonsense" (as she calls it). </p><p></p><p>I've also had a parent drop a child off while she was having an asthma attack but lead me to believe it was just a cold. It wasn't until the child continued to cough after mom left that I realized it was asthma. Mom just said she gave her medicine for her cough. Well the medicine turned out to be asthma medication. She knew her daughter was suffering and wouldn't even go in to work late to make sure her child was ok. Very sad.</p><p></p><p>So yes, unfortunately, some people do not want to deal with their difficult children.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FlowerGarden, post: 683275, member: 3068"] Somewhere Out There, the "20" I meant was that we only had 1 or 2 kindergarten children in our childcare program a few years ago and now we have 20 that age. More families have two parents working when their children are young than they did before, at least in my area. We have several difficult children in our care. They get mad and bang their fists on tables, kick chairs or overturn them, one has repeatedly banged his head on the desk, yell at us, scream at the top of their lungs, 2 have hit an adult, one said he wanted to bring a gun in and shoot everyone, and more. All of that from children in K through 2nd grade. One parent actually told us that she leaves her son with us as long as possible because she doesn't want to put up with his "nonsense" (as she calls it). I've also had a parent drop a child off while she was having an asthma attack but lead me to believe it was just a cold. It wasn't until the child continued to cough after mom left that I realized it was asthma. Mom just said she gave her medicine for her cough. Well the medicine turned out to be asthma medication. She knew her daughter was suffering and wouldn't even go in to work late to make sure her child was ok. Very sad. So yes, unfortunately, some people do not want to deal with their difficult children. [/QUOTE]
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