My son was injured in child care today. My husband and I came to pick up our kids from child care after 6pm.. just to find out that our son was injured during the day, prior to nap time, approximately 12pm. The owner's story and one of the worker's stories are a little different. My son's left arm was swallen all around and bruised. In so many words they said that he ran into a wall. No one called to notify us of the accident. They said that they put butter on it.. why not ice? .. and our son went to sleep as usual (for nap time). They said he did not cry. We have two other kids in the same group as our son, and at home they said that he did cry when he hurt himself. The swelling looked pretty bad and his arm looked a bit crooked. Immediately following child care we took our son to the doctor and then the ER. It turned out that he got a fractured arm from this accident. What responsibilies does the child care have to us as parents? My son was unable to get a proper cast on his arm due to the amount of swelling. So we will have to wait to get a proper cast when the swelling goes down. For now he got a splint. We are also scheduled to leave on vacation in two days, the day after Thanksgiving.
Basically.. what are the responsibilities of the child care? Were they negligent in not notifying us immediately when this happened? Can we file a claim against their insurance or have a suit against the child care? Since a bractured arm is not a good enough excuse for our trip insurance policy to cancel, we will be going on vacation. Now we have to find a waterproof cover for my son's splint, on Thanksgiving. We have been extremely stressed about this incident and the fact that we will be leaving the country on vacation (or lose a lot of $$$ by staying home).
My son has previously hurt himself in this daycare, where he fell and had a huge swolen split bruise on his forehead and no one bothered to notify us then either.
The owner of the facility seems to be taking way too much responsibility in to his own hands. Shouldn't it be our parental right to decide what/how to follow up with our kids' injuries???
What are our parent rights, besides taking our kids out of this daycare?
Basically.. what are the responsibilities of the child care? Were they negligent in not notifying us immediately when this happened? Can we file a claim against their insurance or have a suit against the child care? Since a bractured arm is not a good enough excuse for our trip insurance policy to cancel, we will be going on vacation. Now we have to find a waterproof cover for my son's splint, on Thanksgiving. We have been extremely stressed about this incident and the fact that we will be leaving the country on vacation (or lose a lot of $$$ by staying home).
My son has previously hurt himself in this daycare, where he fell and had a huge swolen split bruise on his forehead and no one bothered to notify us then either.
The owner of the facility seems to be taking way too much responsibility in to his own hands. Shouldn't it be our parental right to decide what/how to follow up with our kids' injuries???
What are our parent rights, besides taking our kids out of this daycare?