Am I being dramatic or am I right to have concerns?

My almost 2 year old has been attending a daycare facility for the past 6 months part time. The do have cameras and at first I thought everything was great and he was getting more interactions with other kids but then some things started to bother me. One of them being that my child would always get picked up with dried boogers all over his face. I understand they have other kids but that would be uncomfortable for anyone let alone my child having to go all day like that. Then yesterday while the kids in his class were napping I decided to check the camera and I see one kid awake (not mine) and as one of the teachers is trying to lay him back down I felt like she was being too rough, jerking him around and it made me feel very uncomfortable. I mean I was in tears just watching this and after and it wasn’t even my child. I talked to my husband yesterday and I said that it would be his last day and he won’t be returning. It might seem small now but it could be something worse later.

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Well done for following your maternal instincts & removing him 👏🏼

Ew very valid concerns. I’d be reporting them as well personally. Good on you and your husband for pulling your kid out of there.

Good job mama

Some young women hire in (daycares will hire literally just about any female human being) and they obviously don't even like children. Like, go work at a gas station, it'd probably even pay more.

Is this USA ? Because I don’t think the uk has cameras. I will definitely remove my child if this was me

@Tiffany the crazy thing is that the lady is an older lady. At least in her 50s.

@Justina yes in the US

The dried snot is whatever. The rough interaction between staff and child is concerning and could very well be just the tip of the iceberg.

I watched my daycare hire a 50yr old lady who was high on pills and left a pill bottle laying around a classroom once

I wouldn't care about dried snot. But I would about the roughness. I couldn't remove my child immediately. I would talk to the management first.

@Minna I agreed with you completely! OP even if you decide to pull your child let the management know! They may not be aware and I would hate for that teacher to do something worse to another child

Report it, someone higher will watch the footage back and review this

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