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So, I just started a new family yesterday who has a drop off time of 4:15 am 
. Yep, 4:15 am. What was I THINKING??? I thought I'd give it a shot cause mom says they are awesome kids and they go straight back to sleep at drop off. So for the 2nd morning in a row, 18 month old dcb screams bloody murder, high pitched screams for 20 minutes straight before falling asleep. He woke up my DH and two daughters who do not need to be waking that early.
His sister is 4 and she's no problem at all. Thank goodness! But the screaming in the morning is just not going to work for me. I am just re-opening my daycare and they were my first kids enrolled, and I think that's why I bent my rules and took them, so I could at least get SOMEONE enrolled. But now I am regretting it.
Oh, and the kicker is mom did not even meet me in person until the morning of drop-off! I couldn't believe it! So she didn't have a chance to read over my policies until her lunch break yesterday. So when she comes to pick them up, she had questions for me about my sick policies. She told me her kids are lactose intolerant and her son has loose stools all of the time, including sometimes have complete liquid stools! So she was wanting to know what I thought about that since I say if they have more than one abnormally loose stool they have to go home.
Then she points out the part talking about fevers and if they have a fever over 100 degrees they have to be sent home. She says that her kids always have a higher than normal body temperature averaging anywhere between 99 and 101! I told her that I took her son's temp earlier that day (cause I suspected she brought him sick) and his temp was 98.1 under his arm. So no fever. She also said if her daughter is running around playing, her temp can go as high as 103 degrees! Has anyone ever heard of this? I think she's just looking for a reason to bring them when they have fevers. I told her she would need to bring me a doctor's note stating what their normal body temperatures are if this is really the case.
Lastly, she said her son gets diaper rash from having TOO MUCH moisture in his skin, and that when she uses desitin, it makes his rash worse!? This is craziness! All of these things just don't sound right to me. Oh, and she doesn't want to pay me for my holiday's off because she is state pay and if she can't bring them here, then she will have to pay someone else. Which is how it is for anyone else, but she says she can't afford to pay for the day twice. So, yeah, I don't think the kids will be here much longer. But the sad part is, my two little girls LOVE having her daughter here and already consider her their friend! I guess I'm gonna have to explain that daycare kids come and go and hopefully they will understand it.
. Yep, 4:15 am. What was I THINKING??? I thought I'd give it a shot cause mom says they are awesome kids and they go straight back to sleep at drop off. So for the 2nd morning in a row, 18 month old dcb screams bloody murder, high pitched screams for 20 minutes straight before falling asleep. He woke up my DH and two daughters who do not need to be waking that early.His sister is 4 and she's no problem at all. Thank goodness! But the screaming in the morning is just not going to work for me. I am just re-opening my daycare and they were my first kids enrolled, and I think that's why I bent my rules and took them, so I could at least get SOMEONE enrolled. But now I am regretting it.
Oh, and the kicker is mom did not even meet me in person until the morning of drop-off! I couldn't believe it! So she didn't have a chance to read over my policies until her lunch break yesterday. So when she comes to pick them up, she had questions for me about my sick policies. She told me her kids are lactose intolerant and her son has loose stools all of the time, including sometimes have complete liquid stools! So she was wanting to know what I thought about that since I say if they have more than one abnormally loose stool they have to go home.
Then she points out the part talking about fevers and if they have a fever over 100 degrees they have to be sent home. She says that her kids always have a higher than normal body temperature averaging anywhere between 99 and 101! I told her that I took her son's temp earlier that day (cause I suspected she brought him sick) and his temp was 98.1 under his arm. So no fever. She also said if her daughter is running around playing, her temp can go as high as 103 degrees! Has anyone ever heard of this? I think she's just looking for a reason to bring them when they have fevers. I told her she would need to bring me a doctor's note stating what their normal body temperatures are if this is really the case.
Lastly, she said her son gets diaper rash from having TOO MUCH moisture in his skin, and that when she uses desitin, it makes his rash worse!? This is craziness! All of these things just don't sound right to me. Oh, and she doesn't want to pay me for my holiday's off because she is state pay and if she can't bring them here, then she will have to pay someone else. Which is how it is for anyone else, but she says she can't afford to pay for the day twice. So, yeah, I don't think the kids will be here much longer. But the sad part is, my two little girls LOVE having her daughter here and already consider her their friend! I guess I'm gonna have to explain that daycare kids come and go and hopefully they will understand it.
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