btdt moms - day care question

there has been a few months of organized chaos @ my ds daycare. both of his reg teachers left within weeks of each other and for a few months there was a rotation of coverage. the coverage women were all very nice but i did find it annoying that each morning i had to reintroduce my child to someone new and fill them in on his eating/sleeping/playing habits.

i was so happy when i found out they finally hired 2 replacements. they both started about a month ago. both women are really very nice. my issue with them is ~ i sense a power struggle for the room between them. they totally disagree infront of parents about the location of this or that or the set up of the room. i feel like the teacher i see in the morning kinda blames mis-haps on the teacher i see in the afternoon and vice versa. "oh...she mustve forgot. she mustve put it there. she mustve done this or that." since the 2 of them have taken over this class so many randomly annoying things have happened ~ they lost ds sweater (obv another parent took it home) i leave regulalry w/o his bibs, dirty clothes, etc - no one tells me they are in his drawer. i came home w/ the wrong bottle cap. i will never see the correct one. they gave my sons puffs to another kid and said i didnt write my childs name on it so they didnt realize they were his (they were sitting in his box/cubby thing)

anyway ~ sorry for the vent but i guess what my problem with the situation is that i dont feel like they are helping me. i feel so stressed out leaving him in the morning (having to write his name on every little thing) and than when i pick him up having to run around and collect every thing that i want brought home. (since obviously leaving things there doesnt prove safe) it seems easy enough to tell them but even when i have i feel like they dont listen and than will blame the other girl. wwyd? how do you approach this? OR am i being demanding? was i spoiled by the efficiency of the old teachers?

please dont quote ~ i may yank this down in a bit.

thanks in advance for your advice.

Re: btdt moms - day care question

first let me just say..I think you should lable everything...there are a bunch of kids so it's hard to keep track of.

Iwould bring up your concerns with the director.. the power struggle especially in front of the parents is OBSURD!! and the Blame game..NOT a good environment..

they need teachers the mesh well together..if they dont..they need to keep looking.

Re: btdt moms - day care question

I wrote a very long rant to my former day care director because my kids were coming home with other children's clothes or without their clothes or the wrong this or the wrong that... every single day there was something. I kept getting the excuse that "oh, it's just so hectic at the end of the day."

And all my stuff IS labeled - as was most of the stuff I was getting that belonged to other children. (Mabel's Labels - I just love to spend money on cute crap )

I told her that even though these were only "small" mistakes, if I made a mistake like that EVERY day I'd get fired because it's a matter of not paying attention. That's what it comes down to.. I don't want to hear that it's hectic or it's confusing.. it's your job, every job has challenges, and it's your responsibility to rise to the occasion.

Honestly, I think you should call them out. Speak to whoever is in charge and tell them that this p*ssing contest between the two teachers is causing problems and they should get their act together.

FYI, I eventually switched my kids because messing up the clothes and whatnot was just a small part of a much bigger issue.

Re: btdt moms - day care question

Same thing happened to my DS's teachers. One decided to leave after being there 10 years (and we loved her). THen the assistant got let go.

SO annoying for a few months. We even got a letter once from a teacher who was starting on Monday. Monday came and found out over the weekend she decided not to take the job.
They found 2 great woman and then one left b/c her own DS kept getting sick.

Now I really like the new head teacher and a little nervous b/c she wasn't here yesterday or this morning. Ugh!

Anyway, talk to the Director. Let her know how you feel.
Also, now I find DS with a paci every afternoon when I pick him up and he was doing great not using it. I told them a few times Paci is for NAP ONLY

Re: btdt moms - day care question