The Reason Behind Why A Daycare Doesn't Accept Sleeping Kids Is Eye-Opening

Oct 16, 2018 by apost team

When I was growing up, my mother ran a daycare out of our home, as many moms do. It seemed like every other day at least one of the kids was grumpy at drop off time.

Usually they were grumpy from just waking up. Some parents drove a long way to our house, and in the early morning, a drive like that puts a kid right back to sleep.

Often the parents with sleeping kiddos felt bad waking them up just to have them walk in from the car, so they’d carry the kids inside while they slept.

Looking back, I wish my mom had made the parents bring the kids in awake, especially after reading this horrifying story from one reddit user.

This story, which originally appeared on the discussion website Reddit, has since gone viral. The shocking revelation about the reason behind why no daycare should ever accept a sleeping child caught the internet by storm.

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Many users originally assumed that the extra sleep would disrupt the children’s sleeping schedule while with the caregiver. Given this story, the real reason turned out to be much more serious than that.

Even the former daycare worker thought that the policy of the unnamed daycare she used to work at was in order to keep the children on a similar sleep schedule during their time at the childcare center. In response to a Reddit question about a satisfying time when someone got caught lying, the worker shared about when a grandma brought in a baby who was so deeply asleep that he wouldn’t wake up.

The most he would do was to pick up his head a bit, give a little whimper, and then fall right back to sleep.

The next events revealed the importance of the no sleeping children policy, both to the safety of the children and for the protection of the childcare center and its workers.

The supervisor swung into action immediately, calling 911 to come to the baby’s aid. In the meantime, the grandmother kept arguing that nothing was wrong, the boy had just had a poor night’s sleep, that he was tired, and excuse after excuse.

The worker knew the baby well, though, and he wasn’t the one to sleep while there were activities to be seen and heard. The room was full of activity and sound, with music playing, and yet the boy would not wake. At some point during all of the hubbub and concern surrounding the child, the grandmother slipped away unnoticed. The parents were notified, and the child transported to the hospital.

As it turns out, the grandmother had a long history of avoiding the difficulties of babysitting by giving the kids something to knock them out for the duration of the babysitting timeframe. This time, though, she’d tried to dose a six month old baby, and he wasn’t waking up. Luckily the baby was transported to the emergency room, had his stomach pumped, and after a brief stay in the hospital he was released. Fortunately, he was able to make a full recovery.

Not only did the parents take legal action against the grandmother, stopping her from harming their children or any others, but they took the additional step of moving away from the area to ensure that she no longer had any type of access to the boy. If the daycare hadn’t had their policy in place, the grandmother could have gotten away with it.

This isn’t the only time something like this has happened. Some policies were put in place to thwart abusers. The abusers would harm the child, perhaps breaking something or doing other damage, dosing the child, dropping them off, and then passing the blame to the care center when the child woke up. Horribly, in the worse case scenario, the child might not wake up.

Despite leaving the child care center, the Reddit user continues to use the policy on her own time. She continues to provide childcare for others, and she does not take sleeping children into her care.

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