In order for the children to have a safe, healthy, and comfortable experience at Nonna’s Family Child Care where they can grow and develop, we have set up some policies and procedures that we ask families to follow.
Parents and guardians are welcome to call, visit and spend time with us any time. This is an essential part of our success -- that Nonna’s Family Child Care and the children’s families are working together. If you would like to share something with the group, music, movement, a song, a cooking project, a story, etc, please let us know. This is where we want to start with policies and procedures.
There are also some specifics that we ask of you:
¬ Emergency information: Please make sure that your child’s emergency information is current. We will never allow someone that you haven’t authorized to pick your child up, so be sure that everyone who has permission to take your child is listed.
¬ Shoes: We try to keep the children’s space as clean as possible, Please remove your shoes before you enter.
¬ Hand washing: Hand washing is one of the best ways to prevent disease. Whenever possible, please wash your hands and your child’s hands when you arrive, and always after diaper changes. Anti-bacterial gel is located at each entrance for your convenience.
¬ Diapers: Please leave at least a week’s worth of diapers at a time. We support the use of cloth/reusable diapers, if you facilitate a receptacle for them.
¬ Blankets: Please bring a blanket for your child’s nap. For 4-day-a-week children, please take the blanket home and wash it every weekend; for 2 or 3-day-a-week children this would be every other weekend. For infants, possibly more often.
¬ Food: Nonna’s will feed the children lunch and provide healthy snacks and organic milks. Families of infants must provide bottles, breast milk, and formula. No sugary foods, please. Please label any food you bring in for your child. Some of the children in our care may have severe food allergies.
¬ Sunscreen: Please put sunscreen on your child in the morning before she/he comes to Nonna’s, this does not apply for infants.
¬ Fingernails: Sometimes, children scratch themselves or others. In order to protect the children, please keep your child’s fingernails clipped. Please clip nails at least once a week or before her/his first day of school that week.
¬ Comfortable clothes: Children learn through their senses. They need to move and be able to touch many things. Please send your child in clothes that she or he can play in. This means clothes that are comfortable for movement and clothes that can get wet or dirty (and possibly even stained by tempera paint, finger paint, or chalk) without causing problems. For the children who can walk and run, this also means shoes that are good for running and playing outside. It also includes clothes that are appropriate for our changing weather (warm clothes for the yard).
¬ Extra clothes: Please keep at least two changes of clothes (socks, pants, shirts) for your child in your child’s drawer. These clothes also should be able to get dirty, etc. We will bag the clothes that need washing, please replace them.
¬ Immunization: California State Law requires that all children be fully immunized (or currently up-to-date) or their parents need to sign a waiver before they can enter childcare. Please provide us with your child’s immunization records.
¬ Child Abuse Reporting: Family Child Care providers are mandated by the State of California to report any known or suspected cases of child abuse to a child protective agency immediately.
¬ Illness policy: We realize that it can be a burden on you to keep your child home when he or she is sick, but often when children start in group childcare, they get sick. To try to minimize the children’s exposure, please help us by taking the following precautions with us:
o For the sake of all of the children please keep your child home if she or he is sick enough to be contagious or sick enough not to be able to participate normally in our activities. Children who have had a fever or vomiting or diarrhea, should be symptom-free without taking symptom-suppressing medicines (Tylenol) for at least 24 hours before returning to Nonna’s Family Child Care. If your child has an unidentified rash, we may ask you to keep them home.
o If your child has or has not been exposed to certain communicable diseases, we may need to notify the other families and possibly the Health Department. If your child has any of them, he or she should stay home, and please call to inform us as soon as possible. These diseases include:
Bacterial meningitis • Chicken pox • Diarrheal diseases (Shigella & Salmonella) • Giardia • Diphtheria • Hepatitis • Head Lice • Measles • Mumps • Pertussis (Whooping Cough) • Conjunctivitis (pink eye) • Pneumonia • Ring Worm • RSV/Bronchiolitis • Rubella (German Measles) • Impetigo • Tuberculosis • Strep Throat
¬ Medicine: If a child is well enough to attend Nonna’s Family Child Care but must continue to take medicine, we can give it to your child under the following circumstances: The medicine must be prescribed by a doctor and in the original container with the child’s name and dosage clearly marked. Please ask us for the form for you to fill out if you bring medicine. We will keep the medicine in the refrigerator.
¬ Emergency care: If your child gets hurt, we will perform the necessary first aid and call you when appropriate. We will call for an ambulance if that is necessary and then call you. If we do not need an ambulance, and your child needs to go to the hospital, we will call you. If you cannot come or we cannot reach you, we will take your child to the emergency room ourselves.
¬ Earthquake and disaster plans: While most of us don’t like to think about the possibility of an earthquake or other disaster, good planning in advance will help to avoid confusion and panic if an earthquake or other disaster happens. We keep more than three days worth of food, water, diapers, etc. at Nonna’s Family Child Care, for staff and the children. In the event of such a disaster, we will stay with the children until you can come and pick them up. If our building is unsafe, we will all move to the back driveway, and you can find us there. We also will hold regular fire and earthquake drills to give us all confidence and practice.
¬ Absences: Any day when your child will not be coming to Nonna’s Family Child Care, please let us know as long in advance as possible. If you don’t know until the morning, please call us between 8 am and 9 am.
¬ Updates: Please let us know if there are relevant changes in your child’s behavior (e.g., she didn’t sleep well last night or he hasn’t been eating lately.
Please let us know about changes at home that you are comfortable sharing with us (e.g., an uncle moved into your home, a grandparent is sick, a parent is moving out, or you are changing jobs and have a new schedule).
¬ Birthdays: We are happy to celebrate your child’s birthday. We also are trying to have a healthy nutritional program. We would like the children to learn that we can celebrate without eating sugary, fatty, unhealthy foods. Let’s talk about this before birthdays.
¬ Naps: Infants will sleep when they are sleepy. To prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), we will put children younger than one year on their backs to sleep. We have a nap time set aside in the afternoon for the two-year-olds, but if they are tired before, we will try to accommodate them.
¬ Recycle/Reuse: As much as possible, Nonna’s Family Child Care uses recycled and reused materials. We encourage families to do the same. We will support any family who uses cloth diapers, and we provide metal or wooden washable spoons, etc. for your child’s lunch. We also will use email for communications between us and families in order to save paper and ink.
¬ Toys from home: Often children use toys or other objects from their home to help them to feel more comfortable in their child care center. These might include a favorite doll, book or truck. Nonna’s Family Child Care will not exclude all toys from home, but we will use our judgment about the impact of the toys the children might bring. Specifically, we ask you not to send your child with any battery operated toys or toys that promote violence such as guns or swords. If we think a toy is disruptive to the group, we’ll ask you to keep it at home.
¬ Closing time: Nonna’s Family Child Care closes at 5:00 pm each day. We ask for your cooperation that you arrive before 5:00 pm to allow ample time to talk with us about your child’s day. If there is an emergency, and you cannot come in time, please call us as soon as you know that you will be late. Families will pay $10 for the first quarter hour that you are late and $20 for each subsequent quarter hour.
We may need to amend or revise these policies and procedures.
If so, we will discuss any changes with you.
Please come to us with questions, suggestions, and criticisms.
We welcome your opinions and feedback!
We thank you for your cooperation and support.
Parents and guardians are welcome to call, visit and spend time with us any time. This is an essential part of our success -- that Nonna’s Family Child Care and the children’s families are working together. If you would like to share something with the group, music, movement, a song, a cooking project, a story, etc, please let us know. This is where we want to start with policies and procedures.
There are also some specifics that we ask of you:
¬ Emergency information: Please make sure that your child’s emergency information is current. We will never allow someone that you haven’t authorized to pick your child up, so be sure that everyone who has permission to take your child is listed.
¬ Shoes: We try to keep the children’s space as clean as possible, Please remove your shoes before you enter.
¬ Hand washing: Hand washing is one of the best ways to prevent disease. Whenever possible, please wash your hands and your child’s hands when you arrive, and always after diaper changes. Anti-bacterial gel is located at each entrance for your convenience.
¬ Diapers: Please leave at least a week’s worth of diapers at a time. We support the use of cloth/reusable diapers, if you facilitate a receptacle for them.
¬ Blankets: Please bring a blanket for your child’s nap. For 4-day-a-week children, please take the blanket home and wash it every weekend; for 2 or 3-day-a-week children this would be every other weekend. For infants, possibly more often.
¬ Food: Nonna’s will feed the children lunch and provide healthy snacks and organic milks. Families of infants must provide bottles, breast milk, and formula. No sugary foods, please. Please label any food you bring in for your child. Some of the children in our care may have severe food allergies.
¬ Sunscreen: Please put sunscreen on your child in the morning before she/he comes to Nonna’s, this does not apply for infants.
¬ Fingernails: Sometimes, children scratch themselves or others. In order to protect the children, please keep your child’s fingernails clipped. Please clip nails at least once a week or before her/his first day of school that week.
¬ Comfortable clothes: Children learn through their senses. They need to move and be able to touch many things. Please send your child in clothes that she or he can play in. This means clothes that are comfortable for movement and clothes that can get wet or dirty (and possibly even stained by tempera paint, finger paint, or chalk) without causing problems. For the children who can walk and run, this also means shoes that are good for running and playing outside. It also includes clothes that are appropriate for our changing weather (warm clothes for the yard).
¬ Extra clothes: Please keep at least two changes of clothes (socks, pants, shirts) for your child in your child’s drawer. These clothes also should be able to get dirty, etc. We will bag the clothes that need washing, please replace them.
¬ Immunization: California State Law requires that all children be fully immunized (or currently up-to-date) or their parents need to sign a waiver before they can enter childcare. Please provide us with your child’s immunization records.
¬ Child Abuse Reporting: Family Child Care providers are mandated by the State of California to report any known or suspected cases of child abuse to a child protective agency immediately.
¬ Illness policy: We realize that it can be a burden on you to keep your child home when he or she is sick, but often when children start in group childcare, they get sick. To try to minimize the children’s exposure, please help us by taking the following precautions with us:
o For the sake of all of the children please keep your child home if she or he is sick enough to be contagious or sick enough not to be able to participate normally in our activities. Children who have had a fever or vomiting or diarrhea, should be symptom-free without taking symptom-suppressing medicines (Tylenol) for at least 24 hours before returning to Nonna’s Family Child Care. If your child has an unidentified rash, we may ask you to keep them home.
o If your child has or has not been exposed to certain communicable diseases, we may need to notify the other families and possibly the Health Department. If your child has any of them, he or she should stay home, and please call to inform us as soon as possible. These diseases include:
Bacterial meningitis • Chicken pox • Diarrheal diseases (Shigella & Salmonella) • Giardia • Diphtheria • Hepatitis • Head Lice • Measles • Mumps • Pertussis (Whooping Cough) • Conjunctivitis (pink eye) • Pneumonia • Ring Worm • RSV/Bronchiolitis • Rubella (German Measles) • Impetigo • Tuberculosis • Strep Throat
¬ Medicine: If a child is well enough to attend Nonna’s Family Child Care but must continue to take medicine, we can give it to your child under the following circumstances: The medicine must be prescribed by a doctor and in the original container with the child’s name and dosage clearly marked. Please ask us for the form for you to fill out if you bring medicine. We will keep the medicine in the refrigerator.
¬ Emergency care: If your child gets hurt, we will perform the necessary first aid and call you when appropriate. We will call for an ambulance if that is necessary and then call you. If we do not need an ambulance, and your child needs to go to the hospital, we will call you. If you cannot come or we cannot reach you, we will take your child to the emergency room ourselves.
¬ Earthquake and disaster plans: While most of us don’t like to think about the possibility of an earthquake or other disaster, good planning in advance will help to avoid confusion and panic if an earthquake or other disaster happens. We keep more than three days worth of food, water, diapers, etc. at Nonna’s Family Child Care, for staff and the children. In the event of such a disaster, we will stay with the children until you can come and pick them up. If our building is unsafe, we will all move to the back driveway, and you can find us there. We also will hold regular fire and earthquake drills to give us all confidence and practice.
¬ Absences: Any day when your child will not be coming to Nonna’s Family Child Care, please let us know as long in advance as possible. If you don’t know until the morning, please call us between 8 am and 9 am.
¬ Updates: Please let us know if there are relevant changes in your child’s behavior (e.g., she didn’t sleep well last night or he hasn’t been eating lately.
Please let us know about changes at home that you are comfortable sharing with us (e.g., an uncle moved into your home, a grandparent is sick, a parent is moving out, or you are changing jobs and have a new schedule).
¬ Birthdays: We are happy to celebrate your child’s birthday. We also are trying to have a healthy nutritional program. We would like the children to learn that we can celebrate without eating sugary, fatty, unhealthy foods. Let’s talk about this before birthdays.
¬ Naps: Infants will sleep when they are sleepy. To prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), we will put children younger than one year on their backs to sleep. We have a nap time set aside in the afternoon for the two-year-olds, but if they are tired before, we will try to accommodate them.
¬ Recycle/Reuse: As much as possible, Nonna’s Family Child Care uses recycled and reused materials. We encourage families to do the same. We will support any family who uses cloth diapers, and we provide metal or wooden washable spoons, etc. for your child’s lunch. We also will use email for communications between us and families in order to save paper and ink.
¬ Toys from home: Often children use toys or other objects from their home to help them to feel more comfortable in their child care center. These might include a favorite doll, book or truck. Nonna’s Family Child Care will not exclude all toys from home, but we will use our judgment about the impact of the toys the children might bring. Specifically, we ask you not to send your child with any battery operated toys or toys that promote violence such as guns or swords. If we think a toy is disruptive to the group, we’ll ask you to keep it at home.
¬ Closing time: Nonna’s Family Child Care closes at 5:00 pm each day. We ask for your cooperation that you arrive before 5:00 pm to allow ample time to talk with us about your child’s day. If there is an emergency, and you cannot come in time, please call us as soon as you know that you will be late. Families will pay $10 for the first quarter hour that you are late and $20 for each subsequent quarter hour.
We may need to amend or revise these policies and procedures.
If so, we will discuss any changes with you.
Please come to us with questions, suggestions, and criticisms.
We welcome your opinions and feedback!
We thank you for your cooperation and support.