Last week at Childcare

25 June

Today was Ash's 1st day at Pat's. Mummy spent the day with Ash at Pat's and this was mummy's verdict : chaotic. No one knew which class Ash was supposed to be in, Ash wouldn't let mummy out of her sight, she'd cry if mummy made made any attempt to leave. No diaper checks, nobody asked if Ash needed to drink milk, teacher did not try to bond with Ash, kids were running in and out of the class, bath time was the most dangerous. Usually there are two teachers during bathtime. One bathing the children and one drying and dressing them. But here, one teacher had to do everything. This was an accident waiting to happen.

End of the day wasn't any better; while waiting to be picked up by their parents' one of the Ash's classmate's elder sister came into the class, carried Ash and dropped her down causing her to fall back....all this in front of the teacher. A bad day...mummy was in a pissed off mood.

26 June

Daddy's turn today. Started well, brought Ash in just in time for breakfast. But I made the mistake of sneaking out when Ash wasn't looking and I paid the price, she clung onto me the entire day, cried whenever I tried to put her down. Everyone said it was worse than Monday.

Lunch - Ash fed herself porridge slowly and messily, but it was good to see that she managed to have three helpings. After lunch was bath time, this was a total disaster, she cried and cried and when the bath teacher tried to pacify her, the other child almost slipped and fell. (this was the accident waiting to happen that I said) By this time, I told the teacher that I would take care of Ash so that she could finish bathing the other child. I finally got a breather when I finally patted her to sleep during nap time. At around 3pm, I heard the all too familiar cry, she had woken and could not find me, she clung on again for the rest of the time. We left for home at 5pm sharp.

27 June

Brought Ash back to AK. What a different person she was.

28 June

Decided to give it another shot at Pat's, but the day did not start well. Ash pooed minutes after we were there. So we asked the 2 Chinese teachers if they could wash Ash up, but the reply we got was a shocker : "Oh, you will have to wait for her teacher to come to do that".

I grabbed Ash's hand and said to mummy, "I'll clean her up myself". To make matters worse, there was no wet wipes in the bathroom and mummy had to ask around for wet wipes which no one seemed to where it was !!!! I had just finshed wiping her and was about to wash her up when her teacher came in and took over. Next shocker, her teacher was running a bad flu and cough and gave Ash a kiss on her cheek !!!

By then, our minds were made up. We left after lunch and brought her back to AK.

29 June

Managed to arrange for a trial at her first centre, D-C. In mummy's words, she was out of control. She refused to stay in her class, walked anywhere and everywhere she pleased, demanded to go into the infant's section to see babies, expected to be allowed to play in the walker's section. I was there during my lunch hour (in reality, I was out of office for 2.5hrs) and took over while mummy went for her lunch, and like mummy said, she was out of control.

Day's end couldn't come sooner....mummy said that we won't step home without buying a cane that evening.

So here it is :