Venting Thread

[NeedaVaca]

I don't schedule inteviews/tours when my daycare is open either. Why don't you schedule them on the weekends?

[JLH]

I have never heard of that policy before. I think it is great that you are able to do that and I appreciate the advice but I don't think it would work well for us. We have 3 kids of our own and we are open about 12 hours a day, Mon-Fri, so there are always children in our home.

[daycarediva]

I don't do tours with children present. The parent/s would have to sign in as guests and it is one of the perks of being here, no strangers around the kids.

[JLH]

Bombed a tour

Here's my rant for the day. Yesterday I did a tour and completely bombed it. I really needed it to go well and it was all going well until 2 children started acting out. I have a 2 and a half year old boy with obvious signs of being developmentally delayed (he doesn't talk yet and has no social skills). He always pushes the other kids and he's bigger than most of them. He pushed someone in front of the parent that was doing the tour and then when we took him into the kitchen to calm down, he proceeded to throw a massive tantrum and even tried to hit my assistant. The other child that was acting up is a 4 year old boy that has figured out I won't correct him or say no in front of tours and parents. Now he acts out every time a tour comes. Plus, he wants all the attention, all the time. He's cost me a few tours now with his behavior. He started running in the house and asking things over and over, like if he could run in the house or scream in the house. Questions that he obviously knew the answer would be no to, but he wanted to see if I would really say no in front of a tour. So... what do I do? I just got relicensed and reopened my daycare 5 months ago. I can't really afford to let go of these kids but they're causing me to lose tours and making me lose money at the same time when I'm still trying to get full.

[Country Kids]

I always have a sweater or something on too as I'm sweatshirt/sweater and jeans person in general but the DCKs are a hot mess if I have them in sweatshirts all day!

I'll play up the state part more, thanks CK. I told her before but I don't think I emphasized the state regs so I'll make sure to later as I'm sure she'll have some comment tonight.

No prob! My state people tell me to blame them as most of the time its usually a regulation in the long run!

[Lyss]

Let her know per the state regs. that you are required to keep it at 68 degrees. I know we can have it higher but just let her know its a "state" thing!

I rarely find myself very cold at 68 degrees but I do always wear my 120 year old sweater-, thats nice and comfy but I usually end up taking it off because I do get to warm.

Since keeping it strictly at 68 degrees our heating bill has decreased quite a bit!

I always have a sweater or something on too as I'm sweatshirt/sweater and jeans person in general but the DCKs are a hot mess if I have them in sweatshirts all day!

I'll play up the state part more, thanks CK. I told her before but I don't think I emphasized the state regs so I'll make sure to later as I'm sure she'll have some comment tonight.

[Country Kids]

Ugh! I have a DCM that has been making comments about how cold it is in the house ever since she picked up DCB and we had an energy efficient/winterization company here. She also then noticed plastic on the window, the plastic that has been on the windows for 3 months that is, and now suddenly our house is too cold for her and DCB every time she's here!

I keep the heat at 68 degrees, so it's not like its 55 in here. The weatherization that we had done was so that that heat stays inside and our heater is not constantly running (it’s from the 1960s so constantly running equals a 350 heating bill, the plastic, space heaters, and other changes reduce the heating loss). All my other DCPs say it’s too hot in here for them.

Now today DCB is dancing all around and sweating when he suddenly stops dead, turns to me and says "you need to turn the heat on, my mom says I can't be cold here anymore" oh brother!

She also brought 2 fleece blankets for nap time and long underwear with sweats she wanted me to put on him.

Its his last month here, gave notice because I wouldn't work with the new schedule they needed as its way outside my hours, so I think I'm less able to deal with her comments.

Let her know per the state regs. that you are required to keep it at 68 degrees. I know we can have it higher but just let her know its a "state" thing!

I rarely find myself very cold at 68 degrees but I do always wear my 120 year old sweater-, thats nice and comfy but I usually end up taking it off because I do get to warm.

Since keeping it strictly at 68 degrees our heating bill has decreased quite a bit!

[Lyss]

"Brrr it's so cold..."

Ugh! I have a DCM that has been making comments about how cold it is in the house ever since she picked up DCB and we had an energy efficient/winterization company here. She also then noticed plastic on the window, the plastic that has been on the windows for 3 months that is, and now suddenly our house is too cold for her and DCB every time she's here!

I keep the heat at 68 degrees, so it's not like its 55 in here. The weatherization that we had done was so that that heat stays inside and our heater is not constantly running (it’s from the 1960s so constantly running equals a 350 heating bill, the plastic, space heaters, and other changes reduce the heating loss). All my other DCPs say it’s too hot in here for them.

Now today DCB is dancing all around and sweating when he suddenly stops dead, turns to me and says "you need to turn the heat on, my mom says I can't be cold here anymore" oh brother!

She also brought 2 fleece blankets for nap time and long underwear with sweats she wanted me to put on him.

Its his last month here, gave notice because I wouldn't work with the new schedule they needed as its way outside my hours, so I think I'm less able to deal with her comments.

[SilverSabre25]

Aaaaand one hour before nap is supposed to be over ALL THREE KIDS are awake and raring to go.

There go my plans to spend time decluttering the laundry room...

[daycarediva]

Having one parent tell you they want dck to spend as much time outside today as possible (the weather is milder)

Having another parent tell you they don't want dck outside because they will get muddy.

Guess who I laughed at? Really, I laughed and said NO, we are going OUTSIDE. Muddy pants are in the bag, I sprayed off dck's boots, don't send new gymboree clothes to daycare!

[Patches]

Communication people!

DCM, when you tell me that you are going to have DCD bring payment today, please make sure you tell DCD that.

[Play Care]

Parent, you tell me your younger child has a bag cough and excessive drool due to teething. Does your five year old also have teeth coming in? Is that why they are coughing?

This would have been better "They have slight cough/colds and the younger one also has some teeth coming in." Fine. But please don't pee on me and try to tell me it's raining.

[Play Care]

Just because your child takes off their diaper does not mean they are ready to use the potty! The only thing it means is that they have learned how to take off their diaper! And then you tell me they had an "accident" in the tub. No, they pooped in the tub because they are NOT potty trained or ready to potty train and pooped because they needed to. An "accident" is when a child who is potty trained and mostly using the toilet to void soils themsleves because they didn't make it to the bathroom in time. IME, a child who is truly potty trained does not like to have accidents (because they feel the wetness and it makes them uncomfortable) and tries to avoid them at all costs. Your child could not care less about wet pants or underwear, and screams bloody murder when placed on the potty.

FYI, The more you tell me about the child's potty training, the more I can see clearly they are not ready.

[saved4always]

Walked into work yesterday to a child puking in my classroom. I ruushed the other kids out to another room before they could touch it or walk through it while the other teacher took care of the sick child and started cleaning the room. I come in this morning to find that my room stinks like puke and poop (I could smell it before I even opened the door to go in ). Dcb had pooped and he is the stinkiest ever. I then find out that another child puked all over the carpeted floor in the room after I left the previous day. My poor assistant had to stay late to clean and sanitize the room. I am a total germaphobe so I spent all morning wiping everything with disinfecting wipes and used a bottle of hand sanitizer (same thing I had just done yesterday because of the first puker). I guess dcm called after grandpa picked up puking dcg yesterday and said that she seemed "fine" when she got home. She was told dcg cannot come back until she hasn't been puking for 24 hours. Dcm said, well, since dcg got sick at 1:00, then she can come back at 1:00 tomorrow. Really!!???? Thank goodness, she didn't show up.

[daycarediva]

My notoriously early drop off sends me a text TELLING me that she will be here 40 minutes early. I never respond (BECAUSE IT WAS 10pm & I was asleep!) and when I saw it at 6 this morning I responded back that it was VERY inconvenient and that I thought we had gone over this. She shows up anyway and was banging on the door until I answered (or she would have woken up my kids 90minutes early!) I WAS SO MAD! We got into it and I told her that if it EVER happens again they would be turned away/terminated ON THE SPOT.

for the love of God people it isn't hard to STICK TO YOUR CONTRACT!