Bad child care could turn my beautiful baby into a hoodlum
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About the Author: Julie Power is a writer and editor with experience in both the United States and Australia. After living in the United States for 16 years, she recently returned to live in Sydney with her husband and twin boys (9 years old).
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The center-based child care services available for toddlers and two-year-olds in two of the Deep South States are pretty bad overall. There are some fairly good preschool programs “Down South”, but the availability of good quality center-based programs for “under three’s” is very limited. I just quit a job where the two-year-old day care teachers absolutely terrorized the kids. The kids learned to be very obedient and submissive. When I saw this women with her class, I noticed that these kids were behaving like “trained seals” and doing everything exactly as she ordered. I could tell that they were petrified. They were so scared and were doing everything they could to please their teacher. She was just like a stern drill-sergeant ordering her kids to march (and there was h*ll to pay if they got out of step!)Talking about emotional abuse! When one of the kids said, “I need to go potty!”, she said, “NO!!!!You should’ve gone when I told you to go 15 minutes ago!” The child whimpered, “I need to go poo-poo BAD, Ms. Taneshia!”. The woman growled at the child and then she escorted him to the restroom and helped him unbuckle his pants. She barked orders at the other nine two-year-olds to, “Sit on the rug NOW! You better sit criss-cross and you’d better not move!!!” It was horrible for me to witness this tyrant berating these little children this way. I reported her to the center director and the center director didn’t believe me. I was so shocked. I put in my resignation right then and there. I have since found another job at a center that offers a quality child-centered curriculum that is based on “positive guidance” principles.