Do you remember when.......child care stories for talk 9

Every child care worker has stories to tell and there are always lessons to be learnt from them.... here are a few to start us thinking...

1.Whilst on a camp,four senior girls complained to their child care worker that there was blood in their urine. Sure enough the urine of all four had that pinky hue. They were in panic. The childcare worker went into panic and so did I. What infectious outbreak was being started at this camp? Where in the middle of nowhere is the nearest medical facility?
Eventually though it was resolved.

The camp caterers were producing the same array of salads everyday, amongst which was a salad that these four were eating in quantity daily

 ..............Beetroot salad !!!


2. A teen was taken to the casualty section of the local hospital in need of treatment. But a heart attack case was brought in by his friends form the bar where they had been drinking. So the boy was forced to sit and wait. In that time another of our boys was delivered to casualty . He needed stitches in his hand. So they both sat with me , waiting. The heart attack case was revived enough to, on his insistence, be wheeled back into the waiting area . He said goodbye to each of his friends waiting there, and to the two boys from the Home, shaking their hands seriously and saying goodbye. He was wheeled back into the treatment room and died.

When the two boys went into the treatment room the covered corpse was laid out on a stretcher and    pushed to one side.  His one foot was uncovered. and a label had been tied to his big toe with his name and details written on it.

Not one of us could stop those boys morbid, excited curiosity from them giving that foot long and close up attention, remarking on its colour, temperature, and every detail on the label..... forget their injuries.

...... what a story was relayed to the others in the dormitory that night !!!!


3. One night well into the early hours of the morning, two youths tried to syphon petrol from the garaged 14 seater mini bus.  They wanted to make a home-made bomb. Problem was they couldn't see that well, so one lit a match to help the other. When the mini-bus exploded into flames they ran to their child care worker for help..

4.The 'motor-bike' boys brought chocolate Easter eggs for a hot-cross bun and chocolate egg breakfast on  Easter Sunday. It was my third day as a child care worker

At the same time a local retail store delivered box fulls of broken Easter eggs.

Not one of us tried to control the children's chocolate intake as we thought it would offend the 'motorbike boys and girls'

............. and we didn't know!!!

Left over chocolate was made into puddings.... they will never forget. !!!

The sugar hype with lots of really out of control children lasted a week.......or more