lovemycadence:why pull the pants down on a minor to spank? you sound like yo need to be "registered".

My son told me that he was told to "hit 'em back" when he told his daycare teacher that another child had hit him. My son didn't want to hit the big kid back! He wanted to teacher to help him to deal with this bully on the playground! The daycare teacher was more interested in Skyping on her phone with her out-of-town boyfriend. There are alot of dumb day care workers out there. Watch out! You need to check up on these day care workers! Some of them are incompetent!

There are absolutely no State regulation of Religious connected Daycare. Parent's be warned.

How bout some N E W S ......... Not O L D S .......... This stuff 2 months old already !

Another thing about cell phones: I've worked in child care since about 2005 and everyone in these church based daycare centers feel that they can use their phones anytime they want. Many of the afternoon part-time workers are college-aged students who talk and text while they're just sitting off to the side of the classroom. The kids are running wild and they're just over on the side of the room completely absorbed in their texting. They'll do this on the playground, as well. These girls will be sitting with their fancy I Phone's and Android's and they're completely oblivious to what the kids are doing on the playground equipment. One of the most dangerous playgrounds for kids in their two's and three's is the one over there at the G-Street Baptist Church over at 1-65 and Highway 90. They've got a hard red-brick playground with these tall all-in-one climbing playhouses and slides. The two-year-olds and three year olds can take some terrible falls from these dangerous pieces of equipment. The college students who are supposed to be supervising the kids will be sitting on the equipment just texting away. I've heard that there have been children who've broken some bones out there when they've fallen from the equipment. The church doesn't care. If a parent complains, they just fire the college-student who was in charge of that group. They don't train those college-student part-timers at all before they cut them loose to supervise ten two-year-old's while they're on the playground.

One of the biggest problems at some of the fanciest licensed daycare centers is the distraction of personal cell phones. The teachers feel they can "multi-task" their texting while they're supervising and interacting with the children. Daycare centers should adopt a policy of absolutely no cell phone use by anyone on staff other than the center specialist or center director. Just yesterday, I saw a daycare teacher using her phone to texting in the OSR (government-funded Office of School Readiness)classroom while the kids were just running around crazy. Then this same teacher caught up with one of the parents in the hall to show her pictures on her super expensive, super fancy data-package-equipt Android. This center has a No Cellphone policy, but she was still using her phone right out in plain view of everybody! I was told that this teacher was "on her break" so she didn't think it was wrong for her to be catching up on her texts and showing off her pictures to co-workers and parents. What does "No Cellphones Allowed" actually mean if these daycare workers can keep them nearby or on their person so they can access them during "breaks"?

There are child care workers (in the toddler and two-year-old classrooms)at some of church based daycare centers who shouldn't be allowed to work with children. Some of these "toddler and two" teachers are mean, hateful, aggressive, and they treat the kids like they're bad dogs. These daycare teachers use fear as a method to control the children in their care. These church-based daycare centers are usually unlicensed so they're basically untouchable by DHR and CPS. The center directors ocver for these horrible workers by simply ignoring the problem. The directors let the daycare workers discipline the children as they see fit. I would never put my child in an unlicensed church daycare. Not in a million years.

I can tell you that there is a big difference between an educated preschool teacher (Office of School Readiness) and the typical daycare worker. A preschool teacher will guide and direct her students and will anticipate problems. She'll use every moment of her day teaching her children in a respectful, enjoyable, proactive, and positive manner. She spends her day interacting with the children while encouraging them to talk and express themselves in a variety of ways. When her children seem "misguided" or demonstrate "mistaken behavior", she redirects them. Sometimes she'll need to send the kids to the "comfort zone" to "cool off" for no longer than five minutes, but that is a rare thing for her to resort to using any type of punishment. A preschool teacher is a professional early-childhood educator. A daycare teacher, on the other hand, may not have any type of education beyond a GED. She will often be someone who likes to sit and supervise the children, but she won't interact with them. She will sit in her chair while she's text messaging and she'll glance up once in a while if she hears a commotion of if she notices the kids climbing onto the furniture. Instead of anticipating problems, this poorly qualified daycare worker will sit there and will allow the children to get into trouble. She'll then say (or scream), "Johnny, don't do that!!! You know better than to do that! Come over here and sit by me. Get over here NOW!!!" She'll make little Johnny sit by her feet for about thirty minutes while he's in "time out". She'll have him sitting there doing absolutely nothing except figiting a bit to ward off the boredom. She'll add minutes to the "time out" every time he fidgets. This daycare worker is all about punishment. Does this sound ridiculous? Well, it isn't. It's happening all around us in this part of Alabama. There are daycare workers like this all over Mobile in both licensed and church-managed daycare centers

There are daycare centers in Mobile where the workers incourage their toddlers to "hit back" when a child hits them. They'll say, "Hit 'em Jessie!", when Jessie is hit by another child. The daycare worker will justify this by saying, "Well, Jessie needs to learn how to defend herself!". When daycare workers teach their little students that it is OK to hit other kids, no wonder they become more and more aggressive. I was on a playground with a bunch of little two year olds and the teachers were saying, "Get him Chaz!, Don't let him get away with popping you like that!" and they were saying, "Bite him back! Don't let him bite you, you go over there and show him how it feels! Go ahead. BITE HIM!". I felt like I was at a dog fight or a chicken fight. It seemed like the daycare teachers were fighting chickens out on the field! That was happening right there on the little playground they have for the one and two year old children! It was absolutely pitiful how these daycare teachers were getting the kids to "teach the other kid a lesson" by doing the old "if you get me I'm gonna get you back!" routine. Pitiful!!!

I am a child care professional with an advanced degree in Early Childhood Education. No daycare worker should be allowed to even discuss corporal punishment in the classroom where students are present. Many daycare centers in Mobile (both licensed and church-governed)turn a "blind eye and ear" to the teachers who talk about corporal punishment while the kids are present. Many daycare owners and managers ignore the threats that these daycare workers make against their students. The teachers will say, "I'm gonna get you good if you try me!", or "go ahead...do it again...see what happens", or, "Your momma's going to pop you good when she gets you home!". These daycare workers will use sarcasm and empty threats with these young children. Sarcasm and empty threats are lies. Children figure out really fast that the adult who is making these statements is, in fact, LYING to them. Corporal punishment and the discussion of corporal punishment should be prohibited in the daycare setting and should be grounds for termination. Alot of these problems with daycare centers could be avoided if the staffers received proper training to do their jobs. There are Child Development Technology programs available at high school technical schools and at Bishop State Community College. Then again, we all know that those programs are fairly worthless and the instructors don't really care if the students learn anything in class. Oh well, what's the solution? Better training programs, more supervision at the centers, and addressing the problem of burnt-out directors who are in charge of untrainable, defiant, aggressive, overwhelmed, and oppositional daycare workers.