Coronavirus has changed a lot of our daily lives. Today, Schools closed, parents are working from home, and regular daily schedules no longer exist. Many parents are facing much more difficult decisions about whether to keep their children home from daycare and how to protect their children best if they do still require childcare services. Nannies and caregivers are facing their own set of uncertainties. With some parents now staying home with their children, they may be wondering how they’ll be paid or if they will even have a job when this is all over. I work at a daycare through Triton public school; The STAFFING: we had a meeting at work to get an understanding of what is going to happen at work. My boss found out that we must take in the kids that have an emergency responder in the family. We were not sure how many kids we would have; we schedule three girls in the morning from six to two. One other rule is not to have many kids in the same room, so we had to split them up for the different grades like Perk and kindergarten are in the first room second through third in the other and the older kids in the last place. We would bring in another person at 10 to give the other people a break and to help during lunchtime, then the closer would come in around two. That was one of our most significant changes because we also work with a lot of high school students, and they cannot work.
“Daycares should be reinvigorating and stressing their hygiene routines, reviewing with the children how to wash their hands properly, and going over physical boundaries and contact rules, stressing the importance of avoiding touching your face or that of another student,” Dr. Niket Sonpal.
My boss has to keep the parents up dayed on what is going on at the daycare like if one kid ends up getting pink eye, we have to send out an email and a paper copy to the parents for they can have heads up. Ooh, and don’t get me started on the CLEANING: we have to know. Usual we clean after the day is done with some Clorox wipes, but know we must go by “Deep Clearing.” Deep Cleaning is known ever time the kids use the iPad, computers we must wipe that off, ever chair is wiped in the room. Since we are in the school, the janitor helps us with s spry that we can use on the toys overnight that is safe for the kids. We also have bin bags, and they must be whipped down too; the dollhouse, kitchen stuff, and color marks must also be made. In general, with the daycares you will keep see all the changes in them to keep the kids safe. The rules will change the cleaning will change end the staffing will change. Throughout this hard time, we will just have to go with the roll, do not stress about the small thing but keep move along with them. We also must think of the kids and how they are thinking, how they are taking the change. The Coronavirus is something of our new normal and change with it.
Worked Cited
Jones, Ashley. “Day Cares Need Your Help To Handle The Coronavirus Pandemic.” Romper, Romper, 11 Mar. 2020, http://www.romper.com/p/day-cares-dealing-with-coronavirus-need-your-familys-help-support-too-22609292.
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