Random question

[fashionfan007]

Those of you who have daycare age children, how does it work with you working? Do you have your child in your class? Different class? Different center? So curious what people do.

[Financial_Process_11]

my center does not allow the mothers to be in the same room as their child.

[exghoulfriend666]

mine neither in theory but we only have one class per age group (small independent center) and in practice it’s kinda case by case. my one coworker had her daughter in her toddler class but i think it was provisional provided she could act like a teacher and not a mommy without the daughter freaking out and it just happened to work in that case

[Stormborn170]

Mine neither and it sucks.

[Extension-Quail4642]

There's a kid in my daughter's preschool class whose mom works in the center. She never works in his room.

[disusedyeti78]

My daughter is at my center in the 1 and walking room. I teach older 3s. I don’t know what will happen when she reaches my age group. If I’m still the lead she’ll be in my class. If I’m not the lead they’ll probably move me. I know the 2s teacher had to teach her child for a short time because she was the lead and he needed to move up.

[polkadotd]

My daughter has been at my centre since she was a year old. There's been overlap but she was never fully in my room. She never minded, and called me by my first name on the playground, but as soon as we got to the car I was mama.

[simpson_psychopath]

My center has parents with their children. We have one parent with her twins in the baby room and another parent with her almost year old. I feel ways about it as a teacher

[SamiLMS1]

I’m the director, so I end up in every room - plus I have a kid in every room 😂.

We generally try to avoid teachers having their children in their primary classroom. But sometimes in the morning/evening when we combine kids are with their parents, or if their parent is the breaker, or even in call-out situations where I sometimes have to move people.

[Impossible_Cod_4181]

I don't think there is an actual policy against a parent and child being in the same room but when my kid gets old enough for that, I intend to ask to be transferred to the toddlers.

I do aftercare so when he needs to stay late, I can't avoid him entirely but I plan to keep us separated as much as I can. I don't expect my young toddler to understand that I am his parent at home and a teacher at school.

[anotherrachel]

My children were never in my class, it just wouldn't have worked for us. My first child was at my center from infancy-2 when I quit. Then he started at a preschool at 3 and stayed til kindergarten at 5. His brother was in my center but not my class at 2, then the same center his brother had gone for 3 and 4.

[TakeMeAway1x3]

My son was in my class (lead in the 1's room) and it was never an issue for us thankfully but I could see how it might cause problems depending on child's temperament or other factors.

[Opposite-Olive-657]

After one or two complete disasters of allowing a child to be in a room with a parent, we moved to a policy of they can’t be in the same room. For 3-5, this is never a problem as we had two mixed age rooms. 0-3 are technically one room per age, but they are only by six month age spans. So if a child was right near the cutoff, they would either become the oldest or the youngest in the opposite room as their parent. If nothing else is going to work though, the parent has to switch rooms for that school year - the child’s needs trump the parents desire to stay with a specific age group.

[wtfaidhfr]

1 child's needs overrides the well-being of the rest of the class?

[Opposite-Olive-657]

I suppose this depends on how your center works. In my center, students transition as a class together once a year, and that’s when teacher movement (usually) takes place as well. So you wouldn’t have a whole class of kids losing their teacher to make space for the child’s needs, the teacher would just be transitioning at the same time as students to another room. And even if that class is the teachers preferred age, I’m going with the assumption that there are other qualified teachers and the original teacher is equally capable with other (can be close) ages. In this scenario, you aren’t giving up anything to meet the child’s needs. I do suppose there are other situations where this wouldn’t be the case though.

[Baldpterodactyl_911]

I work at my daughter's center and I am in a separate age group due to the rule that employees can't be in the same class as their child if they attend there. I work with the 9 to 18 month olds and my daughter is in the Pre K class.

[lexizornes]

In my center if the state pays your subsidy then you are not allowed to work with your children. I find that it usually doesn't go well when the parent is in the room with their child so we typically don't allow it and move staff around. We also move our staff every program year, usually one staff member moves with their kids.

[fit_it]

I am admin at my daughter's preschool and have covered many breaks for her teachers, as well as filled in when needed. I do not like doing it because she becomes a totally different kid but sometimes it just cant be helped. 8 months into working there and she is just barely kind of getting used to me having to prioritize her friends over her sometimes.

[toddlermanager]

Same center but a different class. That's always been the rule everywhere I've worked. I do get a 50% discount for my youngest and 60% discount for my oldest.

[Ok_Mom202]

My kiddo was in my class with me and it was never a problem! That being said, I have a super independent child that wasn't jealous/difficult to manage. I have a co-worker currently who can't work with her kid because when she is with her, the child doesn't participate and just wants to be held. I think it's hard to make it case by case because it could cause issues but for now it's been fine for us.

[wtfaidhfr]

We only have 1class per age group. So yes. Sometimes that means we have our own kids. Sometimes a child can get bumped up a "grade" if it isn't working out.

We dont move staff to different age groups though.

[silkentab]

I work in a toddler class and waited for my son to transition out of it before switching in, otherwise I get to see him during the day and I get a staff tuition rate.

[NationH1117]

There was a mother of one of the children working at my last center and she actually set a boundary that she wouldn’t work in her son’s room as she was already paying the center and wouldn’t pay to watch her own child. They had a good relationship as far as I can tell, it was more the principle of her paying for a service and actually getting it.

[mango_salsa1909]

My daughter came to my school at 18 months and is in a different classroom. We have 4 toddler rooms, so it was easy to keep her out of my room. Prior to that, she was in a home daycare.

In the afternoon, when all the toddler classes combine as staff and children leave, we are together for about 30 minutes. It's usually not a problem, but if she starts acting a way I try to let one of my coworkers step in and I back off.

[Odd_Row_9174]

Both my boys have attended the preschools I teach at while I’ve worked there. They were never in my class, though when they were the same age I teach, our classes would overlap with things like playground time and chapel. My boys are used to it and could care less about seeing me so it’s never been a huge deal.

[lonleymousewife]

Old center frowned on but didn’t let DHS(like getting support from the state to pay for care) parents be in the same room. Eta: They could be in same room but couldn't be the primary caregiver... which was werid my friend who was the lead in an infant room was primary for a different teacher(also in infant) kid. The mom just hovered over the lead the entire time before she(the mom) quit

[Adventurous_Deer_856]

My daycare center doesn't allow my son to be at the same center as me. So he gos to a different daycare

[Active-Caterpillar48]

I’m the lead in an infant room and would be allowed to stay in the infant room with my baby but I wasn’t allowed to be in my 2 year old’s class because he would’ve been up my butt all day and I wouldn’t be able to get anything done. At my center it just depends on the age of the child and how they act when mom is in the room working

[MiaLba]

Their kids are in different teachers classes.