It is not my position to judge but to understand, be compassionate, and remember to err is human. Human nature dictates that to learn we must make mistakes, which takes us to the commando story from the early years.
Many families of all sorts have graced my door. Single parents, divorced, married, no matter what their status is everyone has a tough time keeping up wtih household chores. One day a parent comes to drop off her child and says,
“I didn’t get a chance to do laundry, so Zed doesn’t have on any underwear” as she leaves the daycare and heads to work.
I pay no attention to this detail, Zed is clothed/covered, toilet trained, so being commando is nothing too concerning.
The day goes normally, and outdoor time is Zed’s favorite, especially the sandbox. A few children, Zed included, are busy quietly playing and building sandcastles and such, so I take the opportunity to finally sit, listening to the quiet murmurs and giggles, so good for the soul. Suddenly they are all cracking up laughing, getting louder an louder. At this point I decide to walk over to check on their sandcastles they were building in their little huddle. Low and behold Zed is more than a little bit exposed from a hole in the crotch of his pants. Even worse, he gets up and runs away from me, with everything dangling. I tried relentlessly to stop myself from laughing. Frantically I started running after him asking him to please put his “stuff” back into his pants, not realizing that my voice was raised. What the neighbors must have thought about my daycare that day!
The mistake I learned very quickly that day was to always have extra clothes on hand for each child 🙂