With a majority of today's families functioning with both parents working outside of the home, the need for day care is growing. There are times when the parents or guardians may feel the day care they chose is not suitable for their child and need to change to another day care. Your best course of action is to find another day care location and then prepare the child for the transition.
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Difficulty:
Moderately Easy
Instructions
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Locate other day care centers close to your home or work. Call to check if there are openings for your child's age and arrange for a tour.
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Visit possible day care centers. Ask specific questions to identify one that meets your requirements better than your current day care. Consider tuition, child-to-teacher-ratios, room size, employee turnover and other issues that are important to your family.
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Arrange for your child to visit the day cares that you think best suit your child's needs and temperment. Spend an hour or two in the setting with your child to see how they interact.
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Register your child at the new day care and notify the director at the existing day care that you are withdrawing your child. Typically advance notice is required when removing a child from a day care center, but this might not be the case if the day care has a waiting list.
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Make sure you child receives adequate care after telling your current day care center you are planning on withdrawing your child. If either the director or classroom teachers seem hostile toward you, consider removing your child as soon as possible from the center.
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Prepare your child for the transition. Tell your current day care center that you would like to have a farewell for your child.
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Keep in contact with your child's friends from the former day care. Have play dates with your child's friends from the former day care. When your child makes new friends make an effort to socialize with the new friends as soon as possible.
Tips & Warnings
If you child is not taking the news well, ease him into the new situation by arranging play dates with friends from their previous day care during the transition.
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