HIV kids at play groups

ok so i had my friend over here the other day and she worked for a child care centre and stuff but quit becos it was too overbearing and she didnt like the rules they had in place. she told me that there are quite a few kids with HIV at child cares and that other parents are not allowed to be aware of this, now my opinion is that is there are children in child care with HIV i would like to know so i can teach my daughter bout the safty and blood contaminaton sort of stuff as my daughter ofter kisses us better if we scratch ourself or something, what do u think about it??? also if there is a bully at the child care the teachers/carers will tell you that your child has been getting bullied or getting hurt by another child but wont tell you what child it is, so that u can either talk to the other parent about it or warn your child to stay away from the bully, i personally think i would wanna know this stuff what bout you ladies??

i would definately want to know if there were kids at my daycare that had HIV. i wouldnt be too worried about who though. i guess its a good idea to teach all our kids not to go around kissing other people just in case. as for the bullies, i can understand that they cant tell you who.

what i got upset about last week was that my son was bitten by another child at childcare, policy is that they have to notify me, but it turns out they dont tell the parent of the child that was biting. i dont agree with that. i think the parent should be made aware of their childs behaviour so they can be a part of correcting it

I would want to know if there was kids with HIV at our Child care centre so I could teach my son about safety and that you have to be careful.

I would also want to know if my son got bullied what child did it. So like you said could talk to the parents of that child.

i think that is horrible that they wont tell you if there is a HIV child!!!!!

and more so, how are you supposed to correct your childs biting behaviors if you are not informed.

makes me even more determined not to put bub into daycare. (dp wants to for socialisation at around 18mths, 1 daya week for a few hours)

I can understand that you want to protect your child but the world is full of thing that you have to protect them from and not just in childcare centres...

Regardless you should be teaching your children about this anyway... Why single out the poor child with the disease it is not their fault... That is just plain cruel... I really don't think that you can get HIV from kissing either....

DS's childcare report on all incidents regardless of injury or behaviour so they are not all the same....

[Edited on 16/07/2008]

i would want to know. Its my childs life and health at risk! (not trying to be nasty, just stating fact). Children under 5-6 have no concept that it could endanger them

as far as i know, an correct me if im wrong, but HIV cannot be passed through saliva, it is only blood to blood contact.

I can absolutely understand where you are all coming from, BUT, think of it from the perspective of a parent of a child with such a disease - would you be happy if everyone knew? Think about how you, and your child would feel everytime you walked into the service. I can assure you that Child Care services have very strict policies and procedures in place under such circumstances.

Just my 2cents worth
Michelle

The reason they dont notify parents of an HIV child is firstly there are privacy laws and secondly because of the risk of that child being excluded and attacked not to mention the parents who would remove thier child from a centre that has a HIV child in care. I think it is our responsibility to teach our children we dont kiss sores more for the germ issues. Also children should be dicouraged from kissing thier peers again germs this is how sickness and cold sores are transferred so is Hepatitis and that is far more prevalent in society but can be just as damaging.

Cheers Ness

Posted by: alli_&_missymoo
as far as i know, an correct me if im wrong, but HIV cannot be passed through saliva, it is only blood to blood contact.

yes thats correct.

its sad to think that there are kids out there being born with such a terrible condition. for those children i do hope that a cure is found

Posted by: *kathryn*

its sad to think that there are kids out there being born with such a terrible condition. for those children i do hope that a cure is found

it is sad... especially the kids from africa that are AIDS orphans, and also have the disease to deal with

its very sad for these poor kids, i just dont know what to think bout it all i just think id like to know, not to exclude the child with HIV but just to teach my child and future kids to be carefull at this young age, or maybe child cares should try teach the kids bout blood contamination and stuff so that no one has to know that there are children in the child care that has HIV but they are tought bout it i dont know this is just my opinion