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| Claudia and Damian Alfonso pose with their daughter, Lucia, 18 months, at their Markham home. Lucia and some daycare friends left the centre's playground, crossed a busy parking lot and were found in a nearby drugstore. ANDREW FRANCIS WALLACE/TORONTO STAR |
Despite all our efforts to select the "best" daycare for our little ones, can we ever be 100 per cent confident and assured that the care these centres promise is what they're practicing when parents aren't around?
It seems like there's an endless amount of bad news daycares maintaining operation and sometimes the shenanigans are out of the operator's knowledge. It was at the beginning of the summer that I recall reading about a deceptive daycare caterer. "Former employees tell stories of milk bags left overnight in car trunks, ground beef driven to Ottawa in personal cars with no coolers and of undercooked chicken rushed off the grille to meet delivery deadlines," tells the article published in May by the Toronto Star.
It's stories like these that really shake you and make you second guess your decision. I can only hope that the centre we've chosen for Brayden will never make headlines like this.
If you're interested in investigating whether your neighbourhood child care centres are licensed, or have any conditions placed on them by the ministry, you can visit: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/childcare/finding.html
Just know that you will not be able to find out the problems that lead to the conditions.
