Venting Thread

[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]

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.

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...

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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!

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.

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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]

Last week I began watching a nine-month-old and a four-year -old..I had them for one day and everything went very well. When their mother came to pick them up she told me that this week I would have them on Monday, maybe Tuesday, and Thursday.

Well guess who no-called/no-showed come Monday?

Their mom was supposed to be here between 9-10 AM, which she said would be the usual time she would bring them..in fact they were late their first day by 15 minutes, because she overslept. I waited until 11 AM to call and leave a voicemail, and at 11:15 she called and said that she had just woken up. She asked me if she could still bring the kids, and I said she could but if this happened again, I would have no choice but to terminate services because I was told she would be here by a certain time and I was waiting on them to get here without any notice. I was civil and to the point.

Her response was to hang up on me, and I put a termination notice in the mail ASAP. If she responded that disrespectfully towards me, then it was obvious that she wasn't going to respect my policies, and she knew that one of them was if her children were going to be late or not come for the day, all she had to do was let me know either by phone, text, or e-mail. Because of her no-calling/no-showing, it kinda put us a bit behind schedule. It ****s that it came down to losing two kids that were great, but I guess it is what it is.

Then on top of it, I had to call the police on a couple of neighbors (they live next door and they're friends with one another) who had their truck doors open and were blaring their music loudly all morning and into the afternoon. They had the music just booming. It has been an ongoing problem, and it's pretty bad when other neighbors are yelling out their doors and windows for them to turn it down, and when people would yell at them, they'd crank it louder.

[Cradle2crayons]

Dear DCM,
although I DO give OTC and prescription medications ONLY if the child needs it, that does NOT mean that when your child NEEDS medication, you bring them in early and say "DCB needs some cold medicine, I didn't have any, so can you give her some?". It's called "GO BUY YOUR OWN FOR YOUR CHILD".