Sharing at daycare

I love the fact that Julia has to learn to share with many other kids at daycare. I also love how daycare handles it. If you put a toy down, it becomes fair game. The other day when I was dropping Julia off, they were getting ready to do a craft. Some little girl stood up from her chair to get a closer look and Julia sneaked in and sat in her chair. I told Julia "I don't think that was your chair". To which the caregiver replied "You shuffle your feet, you loose your seat" and let Julia continue to sit in that chair. I think these simple rules reduces the number of fights and crying for them.

The bad part about sharing at daycare is that they all share colds and illnesses too!! When I told the caregiver yesterday at drop off that Julia had a bad cough, she replied that 18 of her 20 kids had the same cough! When I picked Julia up, she was spraying all the toys down with a mild bleach solution. This daycare is very good about washing toys, but get that many kids together, they are bound to share colds.

Oh, another reason I love this daycare... The caregiver said if I filled out a form and brought in some chap stick, she would apply it several times a day to Julia's cracked lip that I just cannot get to heal up. She also said if I filled the same form again and brought in lotion, she would also apply it to Julia's chapped skin around her nose and mouth where is is so chapped from her runny nose, constant face wiping and cold weather. The caregivers really do care about the well being of the children they watch. They don't want to see Julia suffering any more than I do.