A Rant

Since this is my blog, I want to rant a little. I work at a daycare where I am one of two teachers in the two-year old classroom. The daycare that I work at is a strict one where we have to follow the schedule, no matter what, so we are always late for something.
Athough this part of the job is annoying, there's something else that bugs me more and more. One thing I try to do is to bond with each child and try to love them. I don't think it's a good idea for a child to be raised by someone who doesn't even like them. It's easier because they are cute and cuddly at this age but sometimes you just don't click with a child and you have to work hard to do this.
Since it's cold and flu season, there has been at least two or three runny noses since November. A cold is no big deal. The thing that bugs me is when a child is actually sick with the flu or an infection and the parents keep bringing them to daycare. At two, the kids are still babies with no coping mechanisms yet except to cry. Since our schedule is so strict, we can't let them rest until nap time and because I've worked to love these children, I have a hard time with this. Why are the parents careers more important than their children getting better? One child had pneumonia twice last year and her Mother has no clue why. If they had kept her home and let her rest and get better from the flu, I bet she wouldn't have had it either time.
What kind of world do we live in when parents can't have mercy on their own babies?