SEIU 925/Day Care Associations - Kids Dying in HOT CARS

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Whether little ones are dying in hot cars in New Orleans where the day care association in Louisiana was opposed to requiring day care centers installing alarms in their vans; the histories of either the taxpayer unions and many day care associations show a lack of focus on child health, safety and well-being.

In Washington State the two combined.

Andy Stern, former president of SEIU nationally, learned what a cash cow state government was when he was a social services worker in state government. Thus began the rein of taxpayer unions attempting to fool the public by calling their bills that created them collective bargaining bills. They are not. SEIU 925, taxpayer union and the daycare association have intertwined in Washington State.

SEIU in my opinion and now my own personal experience is simply a legislative creation to continually feed SEIU taxpayer money through an accounting system set up by our state governments.

In my first hand experience I received no phone calls or literature in the mail that "union organizing" was happening. On my ballot I received in the mail I was told no voter or the public could be present for the ballot counting and any other writing on my ballot would make it invalid because the letter said it wouldn't be "secret". Additionally, the "secret" ballot procedure was not like a ballot we fill out for a general election. Highly suspect.

For the next legislative session reversing these taxpayer unions would be to the benefit of the taxpayer, day care providers, state workers

and parents. Only a small percentage knew this was going down and voted.

The recent child care legislative update on the SEIU 925 website related to day care was written by the president of a local day care chapter. The gist of the communication was isn't it great we don't have go through a renewal process every three years, isn't it great we have a mobile criminal history check we can take from job to job and isn't great that unlicensed folks will get some focus for being unlicensed.

Colby Thompson, permanently disabled at 9 months old and for the rest of his life, and his parents, were the reason the unlicensed bill got passed. They were not mentioned in the SEIU 925's website article.

Washington Parents for Safe Child Care who had been working on the FBI fingerprinting bill since at least 1999 was not mentioned. Stu Jacobson, president and parent; and a number of parents over the years worked on getting that bill passed. The work these parents did was not mentioned.

Will SEIU write an article on babies DYING in HOT CARS? It is on the rise since about 2006 with the requirement to put the kids in the backseat.

Google Jan Null at San Francisco State University to get more data about this growing tragedy. Please, get out the word to help prevent such a horrible death to a little one.

May through August are the worst months. Call 911 immediately if you see a baby alone in a car.

4-17-2009 Marilyn van Derbur interview-part1

1 out of 3 girls. 1 out of 4 boys. I met Marilyn Van Derbur in the 1990s in Portland, Oregon.

As I witnessed inside DSHS (The Department of Social and Health Services) and then as a child care licensor (the agency now known as DEL, Department of Early Learning) the unelected bureaucratic managers of the government of the state of Washington NOT investigate allegations of sexual and emotional violations done to children it was most gut wrenching and painful.

Marilyn Van Derbur was most supportive when I wrote to her expressing my turmoil and pain.

Marilyn said, "You can't quit, you must speak, you must tell what you see." And so I did.

I've documented over the years my journey "of telling" to elected officials, state representatives, state senators, governor Christine Gregoire, two attorneys general, Christine Gregoire and Rob McKenna and the state auditor, Brian Sonntag of Washington State what I witnessed. Some of those witnessings and documents went to Mary Meinig, Office of Children and Family Ombudsman, to two DSHS Secretaries, Dennis Braddock and Robin Arnold-Williams and up the chain of command to two directors, Rachael Langen and Jone Bosworth.

Some day care facilities where children were violated and emotionally abused were allowed to keep their licenses.

If your child or any child you know of; or any adult you know who was so violated as a child share this video with them. In addition, Marilyn, wrote a memoir and she has a DVD telling her story. Just listening to Marilyn's story is healing.

Marilyn has another DVD called Once can Hurt for a Lifetime. One act of betrayal of a child's body and soul can hurt for a lifetime.

Marilyn shows people can heal. It's true what Marilyn says in this interview, if you email her, she will email you back. When she got outted by the press in the 1990s she has since made this her mission in life...and she is good at it.

Pass it on...Marilyn is a wonderful person. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Mean Mommy - Cory Tomovick

A friend, songwriter and singer, Cory Tomovick, was inspired one day to write this bluesy song after her six year old said to her, "Mommy, you're mean."

It will put a smile on your face this lovely sunny weekend.

Walt Disney's The Kid with Bruce Willis

What if the 8 year old you showed up to give you information about your childhood.

What would your 8 year old self say? How would they present? What would be their behaviors?

What happened to them at 8? And how did that affect the adult you?

Such a heart warming funny Disney film, great comedic timing by Willis and Breslin. Superb screenwriter, Audrey Wells and director, Jon Turtletaub.

I wonder what an 8 year old would think about this film?

Anyway, if you are in need of some smiles and laughter this is a good film to pick up for your summer viewing enjoyment.

Baby Talk, Bla Bla Bla!!!! - Baby Car Seat

Baby Talk, Bla Bla Bla!!!! - Baby Car Seat

A heartwarming reminder how wonderfully engaging babies can be and what happens when they are included in the conversation.

With the rising death toll of babies forgotten in HOT CARS (worst months are May through August), a gentle reminder of what precious little human beings we have in the backseat.

Deaths in hot cars have been on the rise since 2006 with the now universal requirement to keep kids in the backseat. Spread the word, please, and engage babies and children in conversation.

What a good dad here in this video.

Department of Early Learning (DEL) continues to HIDE from Parents VITAL Day Care Information

A 2008 "transparency" article I wrote about the Department of Early Learning (DEL) to give parents a heads up on child day care is reprinted below.

In 2008 the Department of Early Learning (DEL) was scanning in the violations found at a complaint investigation and posting on the DEL website. Observed licensing violations were never scanned in.

DEL quit scanning in violations they found in licensed day care.

Sources told me the so-called union, SEIU, which is merely a taxpayer union (meaning your tax money goes directly from DSHS and DEL to SEIU) complained so transparent information was removed from the website by DEL.

The information that might potentially show the greatest risk to your child are the valid child protective services investigations. They have never been posted on the DEL website, neither on the daycares who continued to hold a license or on the daycares who lost their licenses.

We would like to see the media apply more critical thinking skills and logic to their reporting on these matters rather than parroting a press release statement from DEL director Betty Hyde, deputy director Bob Hamilton and/or communications manager Amy Blondin.

The Fourth Estate is welcome to contact me for research or documents they might find useful as background source material.

Here's my 2008 post:

Is the Governor's Child Care Licensing Agency Schmoozing the Media?
Is the media critically thinking through what the government feeds them for a story? What is the media's responsibility to carefully review information before going with the story?

King 5 reported this week that parents are now better informed, that transparency has been improved as the child care licensing agency DEL (The Department of Early Learning) now scans in the "Facility Licensing Compliance Agreements" into their website.

The most vital information the Governor's office (its Christine Gregoire's agency now) does not give are the child protective services (CPS) investigations.

Most important for parents to know is that the department has allowed providers and facilities with "founded" CPS charges to keep their licenses.

The parent will not find "CPS" information on the Governor's child care licensing website.

The website even tells you that.

Additionally, in direct violation of law (RCW) the parent is not notified of the licensed child care providers and facilities have current denial, suspension or revocation action pending.

Parents will not find the names of child day care providers or day care facilities who had their licenses denied, revoked or suspended in violation of a 2007 law enacted by your legislature in Washington State, RCW 43.215.370.

Parents could be using these day care providers not knowing and having no information source to go to... to know the license was revoked or denied.

Do You Want to Know a Secret? Do you Promise not to Tell?

Do I hear the Beatles singing?

Teaching a community class for the last four years and checking on my "stats" on my blog the overriding interest is in government secrets and the government hiding information.

In my classes I'm uplifted to see the hunger and thirst, the curiosity the public has to understand why our governments charged with protecting the health, safety and well-being of children continually fail.

I often find that "regular" citizens often have more accurate information than many so called experts with three letters behind their names.

My articles this summer will answer those questions from the public I have talked with...to reach a larger audience out there in cyberland.

Unlike the Beatles you not only don't have to promise not to tell, our wish is for the reader to pass along the secrets and in some cases expose more of the secrets. You know who you are.

Check back in if you want to know some of the secrets of the unelected bureaucratic managers.