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How to start an in-home preschool
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Beliavsky says... On Nov 28, 11:11 am, toto wrote: Depending on the ages you want to serve, you may have to have specific equipment for changing children's diapers. What is wrong with changing them on the floor, as many parents do? Aching backs. Banty |
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Beliavsky wrote:
On Nov 28, 11:11 am, toto wrote: Depending on the ages you want to serve, you may have to have specific equipment for changing children's diapers. What is wrong with changing them on the floor, as many parents do? Most state regulations forbid it. Best wishes, Ericka |
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On Nov 28, 9:53 am, Beliavsky wrote:
On Nov 28, 11:11 am, toto wrote: Depending on the ages you want to serve, you may have to have specific equipment for changing children's diapers. What is wrong with changing them on the floor, as many parents do? I don't know what specific equipment she was referring to, but it may well pertain to sanitary standards (cleaning the surface post-change, hand sanitation, disposing of the diapers, etc). One kid being changed with poor sanitation technique = one family (say 3-5 people) with shared germs. Six kids being changed together with poor sanitation technique = six families (18-30 people) with shared germs. Daycares are great vectors for passing along fecal-orally transmitted bugs. Kate, ignorant foot soldier of the medical cartel and the Bug, 4 years old and something brewing, 4/08 |
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On Nov 28, 1:02 pm, "Donna Metler" wrote:
"Beliavsky" wrote in message ... On Nov 28, 11:11 am, toto wrote: Depending on the ages you want to serve, you may have to have specific equipment for changing children's diapers. What is wrong with changing them on the floor, as many parents do? Daycare providers have much more strenuous rules as far as sanitation and safety than most people actually follow at home, and diaper changing comes with a list of rules that most parents simply don't follow at home with their own child. Thanks to you and Akuvikate for the information. If someone has a web site suggesting sanitary procedures that parents should follow at home when changing diapers, I am interested. So far I gather that I ought to have a separate changing table and to spray bleach on it after each use. If I have to spray a bleach solution on the changing surface each time I use it, I don't want that changing surface to be a pad on my carpeted or stained hardwood floors, which probably will be damaged by the overspray. I want a laminated surface which won't be harmed. Toilet training gets even more complicated, because then you have to deal both with toileting rules and diaper changing rules. |
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On Nov 28, 1:12 pm, Beliavsky wrote:
On Nov 28, 1:02 pm, "Donna Metler" wrote: "Beliavsky" wrote in message ... On Nov 28, 11:11 am, toto wrote: Depending on the ages you want to serve, you may have to have specific equipment for changing children's diapers. What is wrong with changing them on the floor, as many parents do? Daycare providers have much more strenuous rules as far as sanitation and safety than most people actually follow at home, and diaper changing comes with a list of rules that most parents simply don't follow at home with their own child. Thanks to you and Akuvikate for the information. If someone has a web site suggesting sanitary procedures that parents should follow at home when changing diapers, I am interested. So far I gather that I ought to have a separate changing table and to spray bleach on it after each use. You are already doing more than I did. I never sprayed bleach. I placed a fresh towel on the changing table daily. If anything stuck to it during changing, I'd toss it in the washer and put another towel. I wiped the table with soapy solution once in a while but not daily. |
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wrote in message ... On Nov 28, 1:12 pm, Beliavsky wrote: On Nov 28, 1:02 pm, "Donna Metler" wrote: "Beliavsky" wrote in message ... On Nov 28, 11:11 am, toto wrote: Depending on the ages you want to serve, you may have to have specific equipment for changing children's diapers. What is wrong with changing them on the floor, as many parents do? Daycare providers have much more strenuous rules as far as sanitation and safety than most people actually follow at home, and diaper changing comes with a list of rules that most parents simply don't follow at home with their own child. Thanks to you and Akuvikate for the information. If someone has a web site suggesting sanitary procedures that parents should follow at home when changing diapers, I am interested. So far I gather that I ought to have a separate changing table and to spray bleach on it after each use. You are already doing more than I did. I never sprayed bleach. I placed a fresh towel on the changing table daily. If anything stuck to it during changing, I'd toss it in the washer and put another towel. I wiped the table with soapy solution once in a while but not daily. I think that the rules daycare centers follow would be overkill for home use in most cases. The goal is to avoid an epidemic, which simply isn't a concern in a home setting where, most probably, the next baby to use that changing pad will be the same one who used it the last time. The only parent I know who cleans as often as daycare staff are required to do so is a friend of mine who's DD has an IgG deficency and therefore gets extremely sick from what in another child either doesn't affect them at all or is very mild-and for her, the level of cleanliness in a typical daycare center simply isn't enough to combat the bacteria and viruses carried in by multiple children. A 1-1 playdate on home territory with frequent handwashing is about the level that this child's immune system can handle. |
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Beliavsky wrote:
On Nov 28, 1:02 pm, "Donna Metler" wrote: "Beliavsky" wrote in message ... On Nov 28, 11:11 am, toto wrote: Depending on the ages you want to serve, you may have to have specific equipment for changing children's diapers. What is wrong with changing them on the floor, as many parents do? Daycare providers have much more strenuous rules as far as sanitation and safety than most people actually follow at home, and diaper changing comes with a list of rules that most parents simply don't follow at home with their own child. Thanks to you and Akuvikate for the information. If someone has a web site suggesting sanitary procedures that parents should follow at home when changing diapers, I am interested. So far I gather that I ought to have a separate changing table and to spray bleach on it after each use. It isn't necessarily required to do the same thing when it's your home and your family as when it's in a daycare or preschool. Part of the reason stricter standards exist in those settings is to prevent transmission from family to family, but if you're all living together, some of that isn't going to be prevented anyway. Also, some of the requirements for daycares and preschools have to do with the fact that there will be other children who need watching and who can't be out of sight while one child's diaper is being changed. That said, you should realize that any diaper change is an opportunity for germs to get around on your hands or the changing surface (and for germs on the surface to get on the baby). Hand washing is a must at the very least. If, by the way, you end up choosing to use a bleach spray, you should be aware that they're not talking about 100 percent bleach. Best wishes, Ericka |
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On Nov 28, 11:12 am, Beliavsky wrote:
On Nov 28, 1:02 pm, "Donna Metler" wrote: "Beliavsky" wrote in message ... On Nov 28, 11:11 am, toto wrote: Depending on the ages you want to serve, you may have to have specific equipment for changing children's diapers. What is wrong with changing them on the floor, as many parents do? Daycare providers have much more strenuous rules as far as sanitation and safety than most people actually follow at home, and diaper changing comes with a list of rules that most parents simply don't follow at home with their own child. Thanks to you and Akuvikate for the information. If someone has a web site suggesting sanitary procedures that parents should follow at home when changing diapers, I am interested. So far I gather that I ought to have a separate changing table and to spray bleach on it after each use. I haven't seen research on home diaper changes in particular, but if it's like everything else in this world, it's all about the hands. I wouldn't go nuts spraying cleaners mutliple times per day on surfaces that your baby's bare skin will be in frequent contact with, though periodic cleaning (no idea how often) probably makes sense. Most importantly, clean your hands immediately. Alcohol hand gels actually work better than soap and water in many circumstances. If anything visible gets on your hands, then use soap and water. And to echo what others have said, it would be overkill to do daycare-type standards at home. Just keep your hands clean and you've covered most of it. Kate, ignorant foot soldier of the medical cartel and the Bug, 4 years old and something brewing, 4/08 |
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How to start an in-home preschool
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:53:40 -0800 (PST), Beliavsky
wrote: On Nov 28, 11:11 am, toto wrote: Depending on the ages you want to serve, you may have to have specific equipment for changing children's diapers. What is wrong with changing them on the floor, as many parents do? It's considered unsanitary when you are having many children who are not from the same family, I imagine. The protocols for changing diapers in the centers I worked at included wearing latex gloves and bleaching the changing table after each change. -- Dorothy There is no sound, no cry in all the world that can be heard unless someone listens .. The Outer Limits |
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