parents change diaper in starbucks. cops called

[Ms. Toad]

382. I take care of 0-3 year olds for a week every summer

We always have a diaper changing area set up with paper changing sheets, diluted bleach to clean the area (yes, I know there are issues with bleach - but it is the option we've decided works best for us), paper towels, gloves, and soap and water.

I expect to have to train my helpers on to use gloves (and on how to take them on and off without contaminating themselves), but also I sort of expect them and the parents who drop their children off with us to understand a little bit about germs.

It never ceases to amaze me how many parents I have to ask not to change little Alex's poopy diaper in the middle of the play area (which is almost always carpeted because it is in a college lounge).

It is sort of like some modern parents are the 1800s physicians spreading childbed fever because they knew nothing about germ theory - but believed they were so pure that the mechanism by which women contracted the disease could have nothing to do with the fact that they often went directly from autopsy to delivering babies without washing their hands.

Little Alex is so cute that his/her poop couldn't possibly be harmful.