toto wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:51:26 -0700 (PDT), cjra <cjrohr31@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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>> That is why, when someone says they want to take my kid to the bank,
>> grocery shopping, etc, I will bristle. That's *not* what I'm paying
>> them to do. No, they don't have to be glued to my kid all day. They
>> do have to recognize that caring for a child requires their continued
>> attention, however, and personal errands have to be put on hold.
>
> See for me this would depend on *how* the errands were done rather
> than on the errands themselves. If a DCP takes children to the
> grocery store or bank, I would expect her to be talking to the
> children about what was happening. Getting her groceries would be
> only a secondary goal of going. Of course, this depends on how many
> children she is caring for and the ages of the children. We did
> walking trips to the grocery store with our preschool cl***** and when
> we did we had the children involved in planning a snack or meal that
> we would cook and eat together.
>
> We also took a field trip to the bank with 3 and 4 year olds and they
> got to see the vault and to ask questions about the tellers work.
>
> We also took a field trips to nearby parks, to the local library, to a
> bakery, etc. All of these were planned so that the children got quite
> a lot out of them.
>
> All of our trips, though, were walking trips rather than car trips.
> We had everything close enough to walk to.
See I like the way you are thinking. One of the things I get around here
(georgraphically not usenetly) is the idea that kids should do kid things.
Like kids in a box. One set of sisters I cared for ... did not know where
their food came from. Dad watched them, Mom came home. Food. Obviously
that
is extreme (and you have heard me be flabbergasted with them before).
There is so much in the world to understand. That does not take away from
the fact that carting a bunch of daycare kids to the bank so you can go to
the beach Saturday morning is no Ok. But there is so much scope for cool
trips that go beyond "kid" things.
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