Parents about grievances in day-care centers: "My dreamy son is in hustle and bustle"

Nationwide, parents complain that they can not find a day-care center or that their children are not well cared for when they stay in a facility. A big problem for many is the lack of staff - even for the educators themselves, who are thereby overloaded.

The care situation also depends on the state. A Bertelsmann study has shown that in a nursery in Baden-Wuerttemberg a skilled worker comes to 3.1 children. In contrast, educators in Saxony take care of an average of 6.4 children.

The federal government now wants to pass a law that should improve the situation everywhere. The plan: The federal government will pay 5.5 billion euros to the federal states in the coming years, almost 500 million euros of which in the coming year. The money should provide for a quality increase in the day care.

With each country, the Confederation wants to make concrete agreements on what tools are needed - such as language support or a better caring key. But what does the situation in individual kindergartens look like?

Here, SPIEGEL ONLINE readers tell you what they experience every day:

A mother reports:

"Due to the shortage, educators can currently choose their jobs, so there is a constant change of staff at our facility, which leads to poor work ethics and poor child care." Too much time is spent training new colleagues.

Good staff is won by good pay. As long as childcare is paid much lower than, for example, the band work of car companies, there will still be no question of better quality. "

A mother from North Rhine-Westphalia tells:

"We live on the outskirts of the Ruhr area in an indebted city, places in Kitas, but also child minders are in short supply." We unsuccessfully registered our first son in four kindergartens, one year later we were casting at six facilities Places offered and opted for a municipal kindergarten.

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Sometimes I regret this decision. Three and a half full-time employees work there for 30 children aged three to six years. After another teacher suddenly went into another group, one of our group is now there for half the week and is missing from our son.

The result is that my quiet, shy, dreamy son goes down in the hustle and bustle. Often he does not seem to drink enough, and he does not care if he goes to the bathroom there. Sometimes, after five hours, I'll pick up a child who has been sitting at a table for an hour at the urge to urinate and does not want to do anything. "

A mother from Hesse:

"The educators recently took part in a two-day training program that was so thin that parents jumped in and offered only emergency care in the afternoon for those who could not pick up their children earlier."

A father from Berlin tells:

"You can not choose a day-care center in Berlin, but you can only get one with good luck, which means that the parents are in a submissive petition to the Kita management and do not dare to address grievances.

Again, the Kita management has the problem that the educators run away because they are being wooed. As a result, there is a large fluctuation, which overwhelmed especially the small crib children.

I would reintroduce the Kitage fees and then stagger them so that people on low incomes pay nothing or almost nothing, but people with high incomes pay much more. We paid € 270 before abolishing the fees and would like to do it again - but only if the quality improves. "

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A mother from Berlin tells:

"My three children have all been cared for in a daycare center in Berlin-Mitte for four months, and I've been completely satisfied for years now." "The educators are doing a committed and great job, and I write that because it's important to me that I do not everyone just complains. "

A mother from North Rhine-Westphalia:

"We recently changed the day-care center and in August the acclimatization of the new children took place, and in some cases ten new children had to be acclimated with a group size of 22 children - if the staffing situation was thinned out.

We have been in the day-care center for seven weeks now, and the group has not been treated by all three teachers together for a holiday and illness. So, apart from craft activities, unfortunately, no program takes place.

Another Kitagruppe has apparently made it worse: Due to the frequent personnel changes, the adaptation of a child has failed for the time being.

When do educators finally get more salary, better working conditions - that means above all a meaningful personnel key - and esteem? Children are our future, and the first years of life are so influential. "

A father writes:

"We live about one kilometer from the border to another state - unfortunately on the side, where we have to pay just under 600 euros per month for a daycare place beyond the border, the same place costs just over 200 euros.

Although we both earn quite well, we can not afford just under 600 euros extra and are therefore planning the move, which of course also costs, but mathematically in less than a year has made up for it.

Unfortunately, the option that local politicians have suggested ('then the woman has to stay home') is even less possible because a salary for a family is not enough for life. "

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"My wife and I live in a more rural area and both work as therapists in the clinic of the nearest town, and since the wages in these professions are not generous, we are both working.

I have a 40-hour job myself, my wife works 30 hours a week. We have two children whose care we alone are responsible for. The grandparents live about 130 kilometers away and can only help in emergencies.

In kindergarten, there are always arguments over the opening hours. Especially since you decided there to introduce overdraft charges for late-coming parents. I pick up my daughter twice a week from kindergarten. My service at the hospital ends at 4 pm, after which I have to hunt for my car and drive about 15 kilometers to kindergarten, in rush hour traffic. The kindergarten closes at 16.30. For me, this is not always possible, although I make a great effort.

I expected to find some understanding for working parents there. But far from it: one is received with a radio clock, so that every minute of the delay can be immediately recognized and punished - with five euros per begun quarter of an hour.

Now I'm not necessarily about the five euros. Also, I understand the desire of the kindergarten teachers to go home on time. Nevertheless, I feel punished and rigged by the rigid handling of the already scarce opening times. And only because I follow a normal work with normal working hours.

There is a lack of willingness to approach those who do not have the luxury of a half-time working spouse or ever-present grandmother. The responsible pastor of the church kindergarten said: 'You have known the opening times before, if you do not like it, look for another kindergarten. I have to protect my employees. '

Of what? Ten minutes ago overtime? If I had the choice again, I would not send my children to this facility. "