^Yup.
I know that in neighbourhoods like mine where there are a higher number of unemployed parents, day care centres are closing down. Just a few days ago one of our neighbours who has a daughter who's the same age as ours and attends a local day care centre told us that the centre is closing down. I've also heard from people who've worked in these centres that a lot of the kids there are really difficult to handle - a lot of them already use bad language (some of them seem to speak Swearing more than they can speak English) and behave violently.
In complete contrast, my daughter attends a day care centre that's closer to my work. It's in a neighbourhood where most parents are holding down jobs, many of them professional careers and day care is in high demand. We had to put our daughter on a waiting list the year before she started day care. Kids there are generally well behaved and motivated to learn. They listen attentively to their carers, follow instructions, know how to line up etc. Just last week I saw a white girl singing songs with a carer in English and Mandarin Chinese - they were singing in English at first, then I heard the girl say, "Okay, now let's sing in Chinese!" and she happily switched languages.
I actually caught chicken pox off a student 5 years ago, the parents sent him in even though he seemed sick. I was in bed for 6 weeks and still sport chickenpox scars on my face to this day
Yep, working at a specialist school we get this constantly. I've even had a parent say to me "The school holidays are in two weeks. She can stay home and get better then". The parent didn't give two damn's her daughter was spreading flu throughout the school. She just didn't want her daughter at home to interupt her drinking and watching bad daytime TV.
My 25 y.o niece works at the Daycare centre that Orion is attending. Not in the same room but it gives us some extra piece of mind to know that a relative is only a few seconds away. The Daycare (or learning centre) is the best one in Swan Hill, but that's out of a total of 3. And because it's the nice one we were on the waiting list for 7 months before a 1-day-a-week opening came up.
+10 points for the Soundwave top on Dad!
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This isn't the first time you've asked me to put on something special for you, though it is the first time you've asked me in front of the whole board - you make me feel so trampy sometimes
Here's some pics from my FB. The black shirt my little mate is wearing I have as well. At some point I should take a photo of all 7 shirts
They do have Size 2 and up though. Orion has just started wearing size 1, but I bought him nearly $100 worth of size 2 so they will be there waiting for him in 6/12 months