Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 12/10/2006 10:55:00 AM Author: Vera (www.veralovesherfamily@hotmail.com) Subject: I understand You are actually right Melissa, I am a teacher who knows what it is like to work in childcare center's with upper management not caring about the children and their parent's needs. I use to work for a center that really gave a damn about the children and the parent's. In our two year old class we had this tradition to have a pot luck with our parent's. Every parent in that particular class had each other's email addresses and we as the teacher's would schedule which parent's house we were having the pot luck. This would be in the beginning of the child's first year with new friends. It was a great gathering for the parent's, the children and the teacher's. At the end of the year we would have a play date picnic with the parent's and their children to adjust getting involved and making transition go smooth. To me that was more of a family oriented child care center than corporate. We as the teacher's had a bond with the parent's and their children and that was more important than anything. The parent's trusted us teachers of having their child in our care. Childcare facilities are all about the mighty dollar and are totally missing out the real reason childcare was created. That childcare center I worked at was in Baltimore Maryland I am no longer there but I sure miss it. It was a learn through play and the parent's adored this place. I said if I ever open child care center it would have that same feeling for the parent's. Name: Email: Subject

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