Venting Thread

[Luna]

That stinks It sounds like a family you're better off without. Maybe your noisy neighbours could roll on over to her house to wake her up? How does someone sleep that late with little ones? Maybe they had a rough night.

[bubbiesmama807]

It actually did cross my mind to have my noisy neighbors go over to her house and blare their music out of their trucks..::

But I agree..I'm much better off without that family.

[slorey]

Ugh! DCB woke up after an hour nap with poop so I changed him and put him back down. He's only 1 so has no concept of being quiet, so all of my kids were up after less than an hour nap (he went to sleep before the others). They will usually sleep 2-plus hours here! On top of that, my ds, age 2 has fought going to bed for the last 2 nights and has been up until 11 pm! I am exhausted and needed the break today! Really hoping they are not all miserable this afternoon, like they were yesterday! Maybe we will go outside before the SA's get off the bus today instead of waiting until after. The baby who started it all is such a difficult baby and somedays he really stresses me out. Guess today will definitely be one of those days!

[blessed mom]

Spoiled kids!!!!!!!

My vent...spoiled kids!!! Seriously! Your kid will not die if you tell him or her no and they have to deal with it!!!!!!! Quit asking your kids permission to be a parent. "Can I take your donut til you sit at the table with your teacher?" Child "NO! I want it now. I don't want to go to the table. I want to eat it on the carpet" UGH. Rule is no eating unless at the table. "Mommy will let you play with the ipad if you go to the table right now." "Come on sweetie go to the table. Please? Do it for mommy" The kid's screaming "No I don't want to go to the table! I want to eat here" Seriously? I'm like...tell the kid to go to the table or they don't get the donut. I wasn't looking forward to the sugar high anyway. I don't feed that stuff here. As soon as mom is gone the child is a completely different kid and walks to the table with a smile on his face.

[Blackcat31]

Dear Mother Nature.

I get it. Snow is beautiful and when it snows big fluffy snowflakes it does look pretty awesome.

But when it's April and our current theme is Spring and flowers and sunshine, you really aren't helping by adding 8-12 more inches of snow to the ground.

Especially when the first stuff already melted and the grass made an appearance.

My thermometer really does have numbers higher than 32F so please give some of them a turn. Please. Pretty please.

Thanks

Signed,

Someone who already unpacked her "summer" clothes.

[Sunshine74]

Not really a vent, but I didn't know where else to put this.

7 of our preschoolers are sick with the same stomach bug I had last week (and I don't even work in that room so it isn't my fault). 4 called off this morning and 3 were sent home! I hope they get better soon.

[momofboys]

DCM, it cracks me up when you pick DCC up early for an appt % you refer to his timehere as a "half day", I don't give discounts for partial days & last I checked 5 3/4hrs is not a half a day, LOL!

[mema]

Why can't parents just be a parent and put their foot down? Your child should not control your household. Kids need structure and SLEEP. Be the adult.

[slorey]

Completely exhausted for at least the last month, mentally drained and wondering how much more of this I can take! My heart tells me to close my business as of June (I am planning on taking the summer off anyway) but my head freaks out because I have no back up plan for an income which we desperately need! I hate the parent I have turned into because of this! I don't have much left for my own kids at the end of the day. I really wish I could come up with a solution! And I really wish I could also get back the excitement I had when I started this business 5 years ago. Not sure this technically qualifies as a vent but wasn't sure where else to post this.
How bout I add this:
Dear dcd,
Just because you missed a day of daycare yesterday because your child was sick, do you really have to plan on him attending tomorrow on his normal day off to make up the day? Trust me, your child is not counting the number of days he attends here and isn't going to hold it against you if you only bring him 3 days instead of 4 this week.
Sincerely,
Burned out provider
Guess it's a rant now!

[grateday]

Daycare mom does not want daughters clothes to get dirty

Ok we have been inside for a long time this winter and now finally the weather was ok to go outside. I have a rather clumsy dcg and she of course fell in the mud and got her pants and tennis shoes dirty. I told her mom she needed play clothes and she took her kid and left. She did not even wish my son a happy birthday. She only cares about her own kid and even expects me to bf her daughter to help her sleep (seriously!), gross. She said she would do that with my son, she is so weird and I would never let her near him.

I got a disgusted look today by another provider who told me she does not let her kids in the mud. Did I let it happen, no of course not. They ran to it as soon as I took them out of the stroller. It is not like I live by the park. I have to walk a mile to get them there so we don't go often and I did not know those water, muddy spots were even there so I did not get a chance to warn them. Ugh some people are just snobby and think they are the best thing ever. I have heart and I just had to laugh at the situation. Kids are kids and they are meant to get dirty.

[Unregistered]

YES!!!! I will "vent" in the private area with details.....

What is the private area?? I need to vent privately as well and will even create a username to do so...

[LoraJenkins]

18 month old DCB was supposed to be dropped off at 10:30 this morning. DCM texted me at 10:15 to let me know she would drop off at 11:30 because DCB was napping.

I reminded her that our quiet time was 1-3. She said she knew but he fell asleep in the car and would still take a normal nap. (Yeah right).

Needless to say he did not nap and kept everyone else up too!!!

Now this is my new family...already started issues in less than 3 weeks time.

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

18 month old DCB was supposed to be dropped off at 10:30 this morning. DCM texted me at 10:15 to let me know she would drop off at 11:30 because DCB was napping.

I reminded her that our quiet time was 1-3. She said she knew but he fell asleep in the car and would still take a normal nap. (Yeah right).

Needless to say he did not nap and kept everyone else up too!!!

Now this is my new family...already started issues in less than 3 weeks time.

Tell her next time you will call her to come get him if he is unable to fall asleep.

[LoraJenkins]

Oh believe me, that is my plan. This is also the DCM that I have to remind that tuition is due every Friday. Well..no more. Time to use my backbone! No more reminders...just late fees added from now on. I do not have time to ''guide'' this DCM any longer.

[Play Care]

I am so mad I could spit. This afternoon was HORRIBLE. Beautiful day out so we get outside only to have kids LOSE THEIR MINDS while out there. Hitting, throwing toys, arguing, etc. etc. etc. So inside we come and I pull out a couple of toys and have the kids sit and play with them. Not long after that they are running, jumping on furniture, etc. So I had everyone SIT and wait until the parents came. I let the parents know the reason we were inside on a such a beautiful day - one parents immediately backs me up, the other says "well there are two sides to every story" Seriously, WTF

Well, here's the MY side: your children behaved terribly - BOTH of them. Hitting, punching, hiding on me, not listening, etc. And I am seriously considering terminating our arrangement regardless of outside circumstances. I'm sure your 4 yo will have a good way to spin how he is used and abused here and how I am "mean" to him, you know, because I don't let him run the show here like he does at home.