Venting Thread

[BumbleBee]

Just because I required your child to stay home for 24 hours after I sent him home for wheezing with stridor & the croup cough, does not mean your child can come on my prescheduled day off. You've been here for 2 years, I always take Thanksgiving and Black Friday off.

Same family asked if I was still taking a week off between Christmas and New Year's because I had to close for a week in October when I had e-coli. Yes, I am still taking my vacation week.

[Blackcat31]

I am donedonedone with all of the rules they throw at you! Even the professionals don't understand and think many of them are way over the top. Licensing is confused. If you take a training in person it can contradict what the pre-training modules told you. :dislike:
How in heaven's name are we supposed to know what's right, wrong, or acceptable with all of these discrepancies?

Please.....just let me take care of these children to the best of my ever-loving capabilities and experience from having 4 of my own and 34 years of child care under my belt. I don't know it all but common sense, to me, plays a huge part, wouldn't you think????
I truly feel I did a much better job and the kids were way happier back when I didn't have to worry about all of this extra @hit.

so agree!

[Josiegirl]

Rulesrulesrules

I am donedonedone with all of the rules they throw at you! Even the professionals don't understand and think many of them are way over the top. Licensing is confused. If you take a training in person it can contradict what the pre-training modules told you. :dislike:
How in heaven's name are we supposed to know what's right, wrong, or acceptable with all of these discrepancies?

Please.....just let me take care of these children to the best of my ever-loving capabilities and experience from having 4 of my own and 34 years of child care under my belt. I don't know it all but common sense, to me, plays a huge part, wouldn't you think????
I truly feel I did a much better job and the kids were way happier back when I didn't have to worry about all of this extra @hit.

[Josiegirl]

I have one of these. 4 yr old. Never shuts up. Please share if you figure out how to make it stop!

I had a 3 yo dcg that was out for a few days and when she came back she literally would not stop talking. She didn't care if anyone was listening or not. I texted her mom and said 'did you guys not let ****** talk at all while she was out?'

[BumbleBee]

Oh my.....this kid literally never stops talking....

It's constant and it's all done in run-on sentences spoken just under his breath so I can barely hear him and none of it is necessarily said TO me.

He says my name but it's just constant babble....

I'm going insane! I'm trying hard to find a constructive way and positive way to tell him to stop talking.

Please.


"Miss BC, I'm following the instructions"
Miss BC I'm working on a red one
Miss BC I'm still following directions
We have one of these at home Miss BC
We have better ones at home Miss BC
Am I following the directions
This is the red one right Miss BC
Miss BC we've done this activity before right?
We will all get a turn right Miss BC
Miss BC my friends and I will all get a turn
Im done with the red one so now Im on the blue one
Miss BC I'm working on the blue one
Is this the directions for the blue one
Miss BC these blue ones are the same as the red ones
Did all my friends get a turn Miss BC
The one I have at home has red and blue Miss BC
Red is my favorite color Miss BC
Miss BC blue is my other favorite color
Friends did you know yellow is my favorite color
Yellow isn't my real favorite color. Blue is.
Miss BC did you know orange is my favorite
Am I still following the directions Miss BC
I know what we are going to do when we are done with this
Miss BC what are we doing after we are done with this
I already knew that was what we were doing Miss BC
I do that at home too Miss BC
I don't have red ones but I have blue ones
Hey Miss BC what's next? Miss BC is this right?
Im not doing this anymore, can I do something else
I still want to work on this Miss BC"

I have one of these. 4 yr old. Never shuts up. Please share if you figure out how to make it stop!

[BumbleBee]

Dear dcm,

Thanks for the $36 extra tonight. But instead of the $$$ I'd rather you just not be late. Especially on a Friday!

[daycarediva]

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN TO BLOW and WIPE THEIR NOSE.

4yo. Lets it run until it's in her mouth. Cannot CLEAR her throat, that throaty noise drives me crazy!

[LostMyMarbles]

I agreed to take a family 30 minutes early two days this week. Today mom show up 12 minutes earlier than the agree time. Seriously? I am helping you out with allowing them to come at 645 as it is, now you show up at 632... Um no! I let them stand outside. I opened the door at 641 and said, you are early. AMMMMMMM IIIIII ( as she bats her eyes and tilts her head and twirls her hair) ? Up you are, I was blow drying my hair and thought I heard someone pounding on my door.

Ugh!

[Miss A]

To the mom who puts her kid in one room of the house with a baby gate, TV, baby blanket, and sippy of juice, you have done your kid a huge disservice.

My BFF has done this. Now, he comes to me 3 days a week, and he is lost. He hates not having the TV on, he can't play with other kids, he wanders around dragging his blanket and ****ing his thumb all day. He is 2.5, can't talk, hits, pushes, steals toys, and is still spoon fed at home. You would think that after a month he would adapt, but no. He makes for long days.

[Annalee]

Oh my.....this kid literally never stops talking....

It's constant and it's all done in run-on sentences spoken just under his breath so I can barely hear him and none of it is necessarily said TO me.

He says my name but it's just constant babble....

I'm going insane! I'm trying hard to find a constructive way and positive way to tell him to stop talking.

Please.


"Miss BC, I'm following the instructions"
Miss BC I'm working on a red one
Miss BC I'm still following directions
We have one of these at home Miss BC
We have better ones at home Miss BC
Am I following the directions
This is the red one right Miss BC
Miss BC we've done this activity before right?
We will all get a turn right Miss BC
Miss BC my friends and I will all get a turn
Im done with the red one so now Im on the blue one
Miss BC I'm working on the blue one
Is this the directions for the blue one
Miss BC these blue ones are the same as the red ones
Did all my friends get a turn Miss BC
The one I have at home has red and blue Miss BC
Red is my favorite color Miss BC
Miss BC blue is my other favorite color
Friends did you know yellow is my favorite color
Yellow isn't my real favorite color. Blue is.
Miss BC did you know orange is my favorite
Am I still following the directions Miss BC
I know what we are going to do when we are done with this
Miss BC what are we doing after we are done with this
I already knew that was what we were doing Miss BC
I do that at home too Miss BC
I don't have red ones but I have blue ones
Hey Miss BC what's next? Miss BC is this right?
Im not doing this anymore, can I do something else
I still want to work on this Miss BC"

I have an immature dcg4 who does this.....even if she needs to potty.....I hear a quiet-muffled-all-in-one-word Ms. xxxxx I need to potty....ms xxxx I need to potty! sometimes I don't even know what she is saying so I have to stop what I am doing to listen...her grandma babies her so much! She is going to PRE-k next year and I can't wait till grandma deals on a classroom/teacher level....If she thinks I am bad, just wait! ::::::

[finsup]

This morning had been FUN. (Sarcasm)....dcb 3.5 is exhausted, again. Dcm just doesn't get it, he's nodding off halfway through the morning and anytime he "has" to do anything, it's a meltdown. My 5 year old decided he forgot how to do simple addition (which he breezed through like 2 pages of math problems yesterday because he WANTED to) but today?! Oh no...he no longer remembers and threw a huge, toddler-like tantrum. Then my youngest son who is generally so happy and cute all day has started yelling angrily when he doesn't get what he wants right that second. I get it...he's 13 months...they do this . But man, after the morning with the big kids, I was just like for the love of all things good...stop!!
Yeah....2hrs 15mins until nap time...

[Blackcat31]

Oh my.....this kid literally never stops talking....

It's constant and it's all done in run-on sentences spoken just under his breath so I can barely hear him and none of it is necessarily said TO me.

He says my name but it's just constant babble....

I'm going insane! I'm trying hard to find a constructive way and positive way to tell him to stop talking.

Please.


"Miss BC, I'm following the instructions"
Miss BC I'm working on a red one
Miss BC I'm still following directions
We have one of these at home Miss BC
We have better ones at home Miss BC
Am I following the directions
This is the red one right Miss BC
Miss BC we've done this activity before right?
We will all get a turn right Miss BC
Miss BC my friends and I will all get a turn
Im done with the red one so now Im on the blue one
Miss BC I'm working on the blue one
Is this the directions for the blue one
Miss BC these blue ones are the same as the red ones
Did all my friends get a turn Miss BC
The one I have at home has red and blue Miss BC
Red is my favorite color Miss BC
Miss BC blue is my other favorite color
Friends did you know yellow is my favorite color
Yellow isn't my real favorite color. Blue is.
Miss BC did you know orange is my favorite
Am I still following the directions Miss BC
I know what we are going to do when we are done with this
Miss BC what are we doing after we are done with this
I already knew that was what we were doing Miss BC
I do that at home too Miss BC
I don't have red ones but I have blue ones
Hey Miss BC what's next? Miss BC is this right?
Im not doing this anymore, can I do something else
I still want to work on this Miss BC"

[LysesKids]

Dear Drop in parent (part 2)

Do you not get that I don't answer emails except for submission forms from the webpage? Texting or calling to talk is best - My policies state that you need to call or text with changes or heaven forbid if I need to explain something and I leave a message on voicemail to do it between certain hrs WEEKDAYS... same mom as last rant, she is still trying to email me.

I sent a final warning that if she didn't call, I would not accept drop-in schedule for any reason( I need the $$, not the headache)

[lovemydaycare0912]

Same dcm that pulled her kid questions me NOW why her copay was the amount it was if the state paid what they did monthly. Like NOW you want to ask. After I kindly enlightened her and gave her step by step calculations she said Okay. I don't get it.

[BumbleBee]

I'm sorry you are having such a string of unfortunate events... :hug:

In regards to the info bolded above about KidKare....isn't that the new version of MMK? If so, how does your program do parent renewals? My agency sends me all the parent renewals in duplicate and gives me a date to have them returned.

If I dont' return them I would not be able to submit the next months claim so there is no way I'd ever get past that unless I wanted to not do them...kwim?

I'm just curious as to why your agency didnt' say anything?

I get nothing. Not a notice, phone call, e mail, nothing. Just no money for sep or oct.