Venting Thread

[Controlled Chaos]

Naked screaming. Among consenting adults, that's known as "sexytime." Among non-consenting adults, that's known as "enhanced interrogation."

Around here? It's just a Monday after the day care kids were up too late all weekend.

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[Pestle]

Naked screaming. Among consenting adults, that's known as "sexytime." Among non-consenting adults, that's known as "enhanced interrogation."

Around here? It's just a Monday after the day care kids were up too late all weekend.

[BumbleBee]

Listening to "I don't wanna go to bed" at various decibals complete with a flailing tantrum and screaming for the last 40 minutes is working my nerves right now.

You're 4. You need a nap. Shut up and go to sleep.

Fwiw all of my other dck's are completely ignoring him and drifting off to sleep while he carries on. Wish I could seperate him so they didn't have to listen to him but I have nowhere to put him.

[Controlled Chaos]

Ugh!!!!! New brother of a dcb started today. Only 2 days a week, thank goodness! I have 2 young babies on those days.

Dcm drops off during breakfast, telling me infant may be hungry because she didn't get to finish feeding him. Hands me Zarbees natural cold meds for big brother, gripe water for baby, FROZEN breast milk for a baby wanting food NOW, and acts like it's no big deal Oh yeah, infant hasn't had a bm since Friday.

ugh. That's rough.

[midaycare]

Ugh!!!!! New brother of a dcb started today. Only 2 days a week, thank goodness! I have 2 young babies on those days.

Dcm drops off during breakfast, telling me infant may be hungry because she didn't get to finish feeding him. Hands me Zarbees natural cold meds for big brother, gripe water for baby, FROZEN breast milk for a baby wanting food NOW, and acts like it's no big deal Oh yeah, infant hasn't had a bm since Friday.

[BumbleBee]

What in the world is going on this week?! These kids are a mess behavior wise. Glad it's Friday but today will be my most challenging group yet. Ugh! Of course I'm soloing until lunch because there's not enough kids to warrent having my assistant come in this morning.

[LysesKids]

OMG... I'm about to lose it

Not only did I have to give notice to 2 families ( they had technically aged out, but was trying to hold out until Thanksgiving), anyway... # 3 family; child ages out in March, I have now given notice because of a parents reckless behavior in a privately owned community; dad has been warned about speeding before, but yesterday he blew a stop sign too & almost injured a good friend of mine (caught on video camera).

Mobile home management contacted me and thanks to kids leaving early today, I had a chance to go and review the film. OMG, dad has been warned a few times, but this takes the cake... I will not lose my home (owned but on rental property) or business because he doesn't want to pay late pick up fees (late fees charged at least once a month). He doesn't get that the community can give me 30 day notice to move my home off their land. Worse yet, one of the new moms coming onboard in FEB is the secretary for my Home/Car/Liability ins guy. Send some good thoughts because I only have one months lot rent put back & am looking at 3 months of almost no income ( new families start in February)

[CollegeWorker]

I'm getting so stressed about one child's behavior needing constant monitoring. I recognize that most of it is me though. I'm new to the preschool age and while I'm aware its a transition age where they start learning more group and power play, it still stresses me out. I've worked infant-3 and K-4th, and it is a very different dynamic that I pray to god I get used to soon. If anyone knows where I can buy a chill pill to destress and stop worrying about the possibility of a paper cut, that would be great!

[nanglgrl]

Everything we talk about, see in a book, somebody else has....dcg has one at home.

Nunchucks? "I have that at my home..."

The Troll movie that hasn't come out yet? "I have that at my home..."

Power tools? Elephants? My cell phone? "I have one at my home. It's purple!"

Yikes.

I have one of those too (see what I did there?) 😂

[nanglgrl]

I have one who is 4.5 who can't manage slip ons, can't eat without getting food all over his face (cheeks, chin, often FOREHEAD). He can't fill his own cup at the refrigerator, can't wash his hands without instruction (and I repeat instructions every time). He's an awesome little boy, it's just that the elevator isn't going all the way to the top in some area of his brain. He's "smart"-he can tell you all about dinosaurs, he's good with letters (can't recognize some numbers, though). He tries to cover what he doesn't know by guessing. This drives me nuts-I don't know if he's trying to cover up ignorance, trying to avoid getting in trouble, or trying to learn. I wish his mom would have him evaluated, but 2 years ago, a head start "teacher" said he was smart, so that's good enough for her.

I have this 3.5yo dcb. He seems to speak so well but his receptive language is almost nonexistent. He knows a lot of vocabulary and facts but couldn't even put on crocs until a few months ago. He can't drink out of a cup without spilling, hold a pencil or scissors correctly no matter how much we work on it. There's something about his small muscle skills and bidirectional skills that's really more like what I see with 18 month olds. He's been with me since he was about a year old (only part time though) but the children he's grown up with are so much more capable of every task. I know his mom flashcarded him a lot and was always teaching him. I'm not sure if not playing enough/being flashcarded caused this or if something else is going on.

[Snowmom]

I'm happy and sad today.
DH is getting a promotion at work. While that itself is great and comes with an awesome pay increase, it means he's going to be traveling a lot.
About half the year.

And although that means I can stop doing DC if I want, I still need a PT job and I just turned down one last week that would've been perfect (hours fit into the kid's school schedule and mostly work from home).

Damn it.

Now, I'm looking at the winter months ahead knowing I'm going to have to get up at the butt crack of dawn to snow plow for DC because DH won't be home. I hate snow plowing. :dislike:

[Hunni Bee]

NO, thorn-in-my-side DCM, your kids can NOT have lunch here because they showed up 20 minutes too late. AGAIN. As they do every day. Out of the 4-5 days per week that these kids attend, we have this conversation at least half of those days. Here by 11 or no lunch.

Today she walks in and says "Good, we're in time for lunch" as I'm starting to serve the kids. Um, no you're not. I didn't make enough for your kids because they weren't here when I started cooking. She looked at me like I had 5 heads. How hard is it to understand? She told me that they didn't have to have what the other kids had-I could just make them peanut butter and jelly. Nope, can't do that. Food program, out of bread. Bring 'em back after they're fed. Like I don't have enough to do that I have time to be a short-order, on-demand cook? I can't wait til after Christmas to tell this mom goodbye!

This is the same mom that has asked me THREE times in the last month to start opening at 5:30 AM for her kids. Nope. Nope. Nope.

[childcaremom]

Nothing specific but just a general feeling of ugh. I don't want to do this week anymore.

[Hunni Bee]

"I have that at home..."

Everything we talk about, see in a book, somebody else has....dcg has one at home.

Nunchucks? "I have that at my home..."

The Troll movie that hasn't come out yet? "I have that at my home..."

Power tools? Elephants? My cell phone? "I have one at my home. It's purple!"

Yikes.

[Leigh]

NO, thorn-in-my-side DCM, your kids can NOT have lunch here because they showed up 20 minutes too late. AGAIN. As they do every day. Out of the 4-5 days per week that these kids attend, we have this conversation at least half of those days. Here by 11 or no lunch.

Today she walks in and says "Good, we're in time for lunch" as I'm starting to serve the kids. Um, no you're not. I didn't make enough for your kids because they weren't here when I started cooking. She looked at me like I had 5 heads. How hard is it to understand? She told me that they didn't have to have what the other kids had-I could just make them peanut butter and jelly. Nope, can't do that. Food program, out of bread. Bring 'em back after they're fed. Like I don't have enough to do that I have time to be a short-order, on-demand cook? I can't wait til after Christmas to tell this mom goodbye!

This is the same mom that has asked me THREE times in the last month to start opening at 5:30 AM for her kids. Nope. Nope. Nope.