Get Your Daycare to Install a Nanny Cam Today!

If you are like millions of working parents, you and your child spend most of your time apart; you at work and she at daycare or school. Especially in younger children, many developmental milestones are reached when you aren’t there to cheer her along. This makes it difficult enough to drop your children off for another person to care for them, much less with the constantly surfacing reports of child neglect and abuse in daycare systems.

Sometimes, it is possible for parents to visit their children at daycare to check up on them. If you have a child that is difficult to leave at daycare in the morning and you are spotted, you may have trouble on your hands when it is time to leave. Some facicilities are placing one-way glass facing into their rooms so parents can stop by unnoticed by children and teachers, but not all parents are able to drop by during the day. These concerns have taken the Nanny cam from bedrooms in homes to playrooms at daycares all over the country.

Daycare surveillance systems can be costly to the provider- upwards of $10,000, depending on the size- so there may be an extra fee for the parents associated with a monitoring system. Some parents feel that since they already pay quite a bit for daycare, they don’t want the extra cost; others believe they should have access to constant monitoring since they do pay so much for the childcare service. In anycase, parents whose children’s daycare offers surveillance cameras are not disappointed.

Leaving your child at daycare can feel like leaving your heart as well. Surveillance systems have given parents the ability to be included in their childrens’ day. They are able to watch their children interact with their peers and teachers, thus enabling parents and teachers to have a reliable foundation when discussing issues that may arise. The cameras provide liability for both parents and caregivers, ensuring that no one is falsely accused of mistreatment of children and that no one mistreats children. Some seem concerned that predators may access the recordings, but a reliable site will be securely password protected and have no mention of the daycare’s location.

If your child’s daycare does not provide surveillance, it may be something you’d like to discuss with the Director; they might just be waiting for parents’ interest.