Can you spot the tell tale signs that all is not well with your child and their childminder?
One of the main reasons I started Nanny Cam Surveillance Ideas and the Nannycamsurveillance.com site is because while we were living in
Everything started off well with our chosen minder, the interview went well, she seemed nice and appeared to like our daughter, great, and we employed her.
After a few weeks we started to notice that our daughter became not so keen to go to the minders however, we just put this down to the fact that they had a somewhat large dog which the minder assured us was outside while the children were there.
A short time later and our daughter was now really averse to going to the childminders house and she would ask if we could stay home with her in our own home. This gave my wife and I some concern, so like any parent, we challenged the minder and was told that it must be because the dog had been allowed in a few time and she assured us this would not happen again.
Our daughters anxiety grew to the extent that she was not sleeping, she was off her food and we got to the stage were she would be in floods of tears and refused to go, point blank! We thought there must be more to this than just the dog. After speaking with other people who had used the same minder and finally coaxing what was wrong from our daughter – we were horrified!
I will not go into too much detail as the thought of what happened still makes me angry even now!
Our minder would leave the dog in all day; the dog would constantly knock our daughter over. The minder used to make our daughter sit on a chair and not move, she would take the lunch that we had prepared for our daughter and give it to her own child leaving our daughter with no food. This explained why our daughter was always hungry but could not eat due to a fear growing in her along with the anxiety. The woman would shout at our daughter for no reason, she would make her wait for a long time before allowing her to use the toilet; sometimes it would be too late. She would inform us that “she has had a little accident” when we would collect her, this turned out not to be that case.
Although this could not have been foreseen, we could not forgive ourselves for putting our daughter through such an ordeal. We reported the minder and she was no longer allowed to look after children.
Now I know this is just my story, and I am in no way trying to scaremonger here, I just wanted to get that off my chest and inform you as to the reason behind NannyCamSurveillance.com
From then on we made a point of always checking out our minders very thoroughly, then we would insist on them looking after our daughter in our own home. We then set up a web-camera (it was a while ago) to record everything that went on in our house during our periods of absence.
I am please to say, nothing was ever viewed that was of concern, thankfully, the piece of mind was just so reassuring, I could not begin to tell you!
Sorry it was a little long.
That is why I truly believe in our tag line,
If something’s precious, it’s worth keeping an eye on…



