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My niece and her hubs got covid a few weeks ago; she kept both kids home with her and tested them twice during that week; they did have a sniffle upon returning but was negative the morning of returning so sometimes there IS simply a crud that is not covid, strep or flu and manageable so maybe that's all your kiddos have. I think the pandemic caused me to be a little over cautious as I was afraid I would have to close each time due to a positive covid case within my daycare or anyone else I was around....I'm trying to get that out of my head now and it's hard but a normal cough/runny nose is expected at times.....- Flag
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Just as I suspected, dcb is coughing and sniffing today. There is no way he wasn't sick.- Flag
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Sorry yes, this is the family that I started but regretted. DH feels that I should give them another chance so I may just put a star on the calendar and make a list of goals/changes that need to happen and have a term letter at the ready, with their bags packed.
I was mainly stressing about the drama that had happened. Then I felt like dcm was lying about the kids being sick, especially since DS and DCG had come down with DCB cold. The other two are here less often and were not here on Friday when he was the sickest.
When DCB coughs it is a full open-mouth cough every time. I say when we cough we need to cover our mouths and then the other kids will show him by fake coughing into their elbows and I will ask DCB to try and he looks away from me. He is so disrespectful and rude. When I say something to his mom about his disrespect, she tells me he is that way with her. Then he did, he refused to put his shoes on, and just stood there staring at her until she got frustrated and did it for him.
The only time he has talked to me is to tell someone. Or the time that he told me that mom has a cat. When I asked more about his cat, he said it was mom's. When I asked about his half-sister, who lives with him (she came with Mom to drop them off), he said she was not his sister, and that she was one of the kids.
Then he told DCG4.5 that she did not have permission to play with the younger DCG1.10, his sister, and that she needed to get his permission. Then proceeded to take his sister's hand and walk her away from DCG. DCG burst into tears because she did not understand what she did wrong. I told DCG to ask the younger DCG to play, and that she did not need DCB permission to play with his sister. He did it again the next day. (DCG had asked DCB3.10 to play with her but he said no, so she started playing with his sister and he stopped what he was doing to stop them from playing)
When I told him to go to the bathroom after nap like I do with every kid daily. He stood with the seat up, backed up to the toilet, pooping. I have potty breaks for nap and outside time, on a bad weather day, I had not thought about it but never had a potty break because DCG is potty trained and goes when she needs to. DD says, he has to go to the potty but won't go even when I told him that he could go. Now I realize, I have to tell him to go to the bathroom every so often because he does not go on his own even when he is holding himself
He wet himself and then I found out dcm did not send underwear for him. I told him to change and he was not wearing any underwear, just pants, I was shocked. The next day DCM brought me replacement shorts, not pants, and pull-ups not underwear but assured me dcb was wearing underwear. She brought shorts, not pants because she said, it was getting warmer and then said boy is it cold today, it was 30 degrees out that day. So I have backup shorts for the rest of the winter because it was warm for a couple of days.- Flag
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Sounds to me like a family that you really knew you shouldn't have enrolled but you did anyway so now you are trying to figure out how to get out of it. ?? But I've done this too a couple times so short and sweet is probably the best way to get out of it??- Flag
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May I ask why they’re stressing you out when they’ve been gone all week? I am not sure I understand it all.
If you believe DCK wasn’t sleeping because she wasn’t feeling well, maybe you could give it another week for her to adjust? It seems to me like DCM was trying to see what she could get away with/she genuinely forgot to pay but has corrected the issue. I understand that you feel as though DCM is lying about the kids being sick, but even if she is, she has at least kept them home all week and paid for next week.- Flag
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I would make it effective immediately.....NO two-week notice!
For what it's worth I have done this before, too.....not easy but needed to be done. Hang in there!- Flag
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Annalee do you think that reasoning needs a two week notice? Or would you just term on the spot, for personal reasons?
The last time I termed and gave two weeks, it was an unbearable two weeks.- Flag
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Short and sweet; Due to personal reasons, I will no longer be able to provide care for your family. Here is a website with a list of licensed child care facilities. Thanks!- Flag
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That is what I was planning but I question how to say it.
After some time, I have decided that adding 2 kids full time is affecting my dd schooling and she is not getting ???
It is one of those things that I wonder if she will come back with a solution like the kids not attending daily. So I just want to make sure that I have the right wording to prevent this.- Flag
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How about You decided to downsize to focus on homeschooling with your daughter?- Flag
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This family so stresses me out, even though they have been gone all week because "dad has been sick". I was hoping DCM did not pay today and I could refuse and term on Monday for lack of payment. But she did pay.
Last week she got mad because I added a late fee when she had not gotten home to pay me. I removed it but told her the late fee was added because she failed to pay Friday morning when payment was due. So this week she paid in the morning.
According to DCM, the kids are not and have not been sick. That DCD is the one that is sick, even though DCB had a cough last Friday and DCG had diarrhea last week. Why would you keep super healthy kids home all week with apparently really sick dcd?
I know what I have to do but I am unsure how to do it. I have had time with reasoning that would not blow up in my face, I want to say that it is not working out because it is affecting my dd homeschooling with the kids here so late in the day. But then I think that they have not been here enough for that to be a valid reason yet. If I use that reason, I feel that I am obligated to give two weeks' notice.
Plus she started picking up a little earlier before 5, last week, instead of minutes before 530.
I was going to say that dcg was not bonding with me but then she started reaching for me upon arrival. Then DCG started waking during nap but I think that she was not feeling well.
I just need a reason to give to DCM that will work without question.- Flag
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Me: DCG (22 months old) did not have mittens today, also her mittens are thumbless (0-9 months old size), so she will need mittens with thumbs. She took them off yesterday and put them in a mud puddle.
DCM: They were dirty, so I did not send them today and that is the only mittens she has.
Today just before nap, I sent DCB to go use the bathroom, and he returned with a wet spot on the front of his pants. I'm not sure what happened, I take him into the bathroom with his bag of clothes, and he has no replacement underwear. I thought I would check the underwear he had on to see if they were wet, I pulled his pants down a bit and I found he was a commando. Not what I was expecting.
DCG4 and DCG22m are playing DCB3 takes DCG22 away and tells DCG4 that she needs to ask to play with DCG22 (his little sister). Wait what, she needs to ask. NO dcg22 is a person, not an object. DCG4 is confused and crying. I asked DCG4 if she asked DCG22 if she wanted to play and she had. I tell DCB that No one has to ask him for permission.- Flag
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Guest repliedWhat would you about an employee that tries to nick-pick and tell other people what to do and then complains about other employees even ones that have quit. We have an employee that has been with us for a while and complains about other employees such as how they run their class, tone of voice to the kids etc. Then if she isn't doing that she complains about me and how i do things and what i do or don't do. If i don't replace toilet paper she gets upset because techinically whoever cleans the restrooms is suppose to do that. She was told to step down at the other daycare because of problems, then got a job with us and left because the old daycare asked her to come back which she obligated to because of the pay so after a while she was asked to stepdown and came back to us. She complained about an employee who quit because they quit and didn't give a 2 week notice, then she complained about a parent who quit to stay home with her kid because the parent slandered the daycare claiming we were being unprofessional because of a text that was posted in a group between all thr daycare employees and the parents . The owner apologized for what was said but the parent still wasn't happy about it- Flag
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