Please telll me if you would want to know about this or if I should just ignore it. First, a little background history. My son goes to esikoulu in a päiväkoti. He's new there this year and I don't know all of the kids. I've seen one family whose mother brings the two boys sometimes, but there seems to also be a babysitter who brings there. There is also a baby girl in the family who is probably about a year old.
Here's my problem with the situation. About a month ago when I took ds to school, the baby was sitting outside in the rain without the cover up on her stroller. There is a covered patio where she could have been placed, but she was in the rain. I pulled the cover up on her stroller when I walked past so at least she wasn't getting rain on her face any more. I noticed that it was the babysitter who was inside with the boys. This morning when I dropped ds off and was walking back to the car, I saw the family coming down the hill. It looked to me at first that the baby was rolling down on her own and then I saw the younger of the two boys was pushing her. He was actually running and pushing her. I know he couldn't see over the top because I couldn't see him until he poked his face around the side. This is a very steep hill. If he had tripped or lost control of the stroller, the baby would have either gone straight into the ditch or she could have ended up very quickly in the middle of the busy street at the intersection.
Would this kind of information be welcomed or should I just let it go? I'll be the first to admit that I am extremely protective. I'm not sure what to do.
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So when do you say you saw some issues? When the child is left out in the cold and gets frostbite, or when the kids push the stroller into oncoming traffic?Sara wrote:For now I proberly wouldnt say anything, sounds more like the babysitter is lacking in some common sense
I am not a Finn nor a mom, but I am a stay at home dad. In my humble opinion I would want to know immediately if there were problems with a babysitter I hired. Maybe that is the American in me but when it comes to negligence with children, it truly scares me. You hire sitters to take care of your children not to leave them out in the rain.
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Hi,
I'm not Finnish either but I am a mother and I'd appreciate being informed if my child was in any danger. I don't think it matters what nationality you are - everyone should look out for children.
I would tell the mother since it would bother me until I did as I'd worry that something terrible would happen to the child and then I'd feel guilty that I should've said something.
-Julie
I'm not Finnish either but I am a mother and I'd appreciate being informed if my child was in any danger. I don't think it matters what nationality you are - everyone should look out for children.
I would tell the mother since it would bother me until I did as I'd worry that something terrible would happen to the child and then I'd feel guilty that I should've said something.
-Julie
I'm a Finnish father, so don't qualify either, but, yeah, definitely worth telling about. It might help though to kind of "vähätellä" or understate the issue - just calmly, non-animatedly telling that you might be wrong but the situation did look quite alarming. This would translate as grave concern and still leave room for saving "face". Still, you never can tell people's reactions: for a very valuable service indeed you might get a negative response, but that is well worth it in a situation like this.