News, Daycare owner accused of drugging milk. (day care, baby, parents)
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The owner of a Van Alstyne daycare has been accused of putting antihistamines in children's food so they would fall asleep after lunch.
Kimberly Lane, the owner of the Luv N Learning daycare, was arrested and charged with 16 counts of child endangerment after someone called authorities and said she was mixing an over-the-counter antihistamine with milk and then giving it to children.
Daycare practices of giving Benadryl to children to get them to nap more easily and for a longer period of time have come to light recently in some communities. In a small town in Montana, one child died of an antihistamine overdose at the hands of daycare provider. It later became known that the daycare routinely gave the children antihistamine at naptime.
i feel a lil guilty i use to give my babysitter nyquil so she could fall a sleep and i could stay out later...Yikes..........she was a adult not a child I was the child lol I would add it to her liquor.
While there are, sadly, instances of something like this it is NOT common! You listed a handful of stories over several years, yet there are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of child care providers out there across the nation who do not do this and never ever would.
I've been a child care provider for 20 years and this kind of representation is a major disservice to the profession.
I'd venture to guess there are far more parents who use medications on their own children in ways they are not meant to be used than professional child care providers.
While there are, sadly, instances of something like this it is NOT common! You listed a handful of stories over several years, yet there are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of child care providers out there across the nation who do not do this and never ever would.
Handful? I didn't post every single story. Heck, that was just a mere sampling of the stories with "benedryl" and "death." I could add many more with searching "antihistamine" or "drugs" or "cold medicine" etc. etc. I didn't even see the ones that I've heard reported in my region throughout the years yet. There are many more that don't result in death. And, like I said, these are just the ones who were caught.
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Originally Posted by hypocore
I've been a child care provider for 20 years and this kind of representation is a major disservice to the profession.
Saying it's common is not a representation of all daycare facilities. It's merely pointing out that this one news story is not isolated. It being more prevelant than you like to believe is in no way a reflection of you as a daycare provider personally.
Handful? I didn't post every single story. Heck, that was just a mere sampling of the stories with "benedryl" and "death." I could add many more with searching "antihistamine" or "drugs" or "cold medicine" etc. etc. I didn't even see the ones that I've heard reported in my region throughout the years yet. There are many more that don't result in death. And, like I said, these are just the ones who were caught.
I think that the number is much closer to "handful" than common. Three of your links were about the same story (Bieber/Tiny Tots/Montana).
From your 2009 link:
"I believe things like this are probably very rare," Baker said. "But the reality is unless you are testing for this, you are never going to know."
Yes, these events are terrible and upsetting. But they are not common.
Handful? I didn't post every single story. Heck, that was just a mere sampling of the stories with "benedryl" and "death." I could add many more with searching "antihistamine" or "drugs" or "cold medicine" etc. etc. I didn't even see the ones that I've heard reported in my region throughout the years yet. There are many more that don't result in death. And, like I said, these are just the ones who were caught.
Saying it's common is not a representation of all daycare facilities. It's merely pointing out that this one news story is not isolated. It being more prevelant than you like to believe is in no way a reflection of you as a daycare provider personally.
If you actually read your own links you'll see that they represent a total of 6 people over 20 years....
Janice Knight - 1991 - Alaska
Karen Zemba - 2001 - Ohio
Josephine Burke - 2001 - North Carolina
Paula Burcham - 2001 - Florida
Sabine Bieber - 2003 - Montana
Ana Powers - 2007 - New York
Another you linked was convicted of shaking a baby, not drugging.
That is statistically an extremely rare occurrence. Even if you find twice as many more and add them in, it is still such a faint percentage of the number of providers out there that it simply cannot be given credence as a credible, significant event that occurs in child care.
I think that the number is much closer to "handful" than common. Three of your links were about the same story (Bieber/Tiny Tots/Montana).
From your 2009 link:
"I believe things like this are probably very rare," Baker said. "But the reality is unless you are testing for this, you are never going to know."
Yes, these events are terrible and upsetting. But they are not common.
Semantics. I simply used "fairly common" to indicate that this isn't an issolated incident.
And I was quickly pulling links just to show that this wasn't the first time something like this happened.
I still stand by my point. This isn't some freak one off incident. It happens.
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