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This paper examines performance evaluations of daycare workers (for the purposes of certification, follow-up, contract renewal, etc.) performed by childcare professionals (doctors, pediatric nurses, and social workers). By treating these practitioners’ discourses in practice analysis groups, as well as a certain number of authorization records, this paper attempts to understand the uneasiness that this evaluation practice seems to generate. Beyond the arguments developed by these professionals (fuzziness of criteria, insecurity due to the impact of the subjectivity, organizational paradoxes, heterogeneity of practices depending on the services, etc.), other factors explain the mental load dimension that this procedure implies. Based on Fustier’s works about the imaginary infrastructure of institutions, this paper hypothesizes that the unconscious content of the imaginary infrastructure of the institution of “childhood protection” (archaic imago of the mother, seduction, omnipotence, symbiosis, and psychic prison drive, essential ambivalence of the adult towards the child) determines and softens the daycare system where evaluations are practiced. Lastly, the impact of two emotional states is emphasized: repressed hatred towards the child and guilt feelings.