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You know the mom felt bad, and shes keeping the girl home tomorrow, you all have no idea what the mothers side of the story is, she could have been sleeping when her phone died, and not even known it was dead, if their was a major emergency, cops would show up at her doorstep, it wasn't that long ago, that cell phones weren't around, you sure could not get ahold of parents driving, or out to lunch back then, everyone is making her out to be so bad....sheesh.
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Slight Hijack!
To OP: yeah I feel the parents should be reachable and its pretty sad to get no reply. Hijack: I had to pick my oldest son up at elementary school, many years ago (he's 17 now!). I was so sorry it took me an hour to get there (was in restaurant biz at the time). "Oh I'm so sorry it took me almost an hour, I had to wait for my relief...." School nurse stops my apology. She says "No, thank you for anseering the phone, showing concern and arriving as soon as possible. I have had sick kids, and when I call their parents, I actually get WRONG NUMBERS! They don't and won't be bothered at work and will NOT pick up their child. Even had bogus emergency contacts before too. You'd be shocked how many parents don't even answer the phone. Oh wow"******wow. That stuck in my head for years, obviously. A wrong number. Really? Who would do that?Comment
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No cell phones but almost EVERYONE had an emergency contact list where SOMEONE was available to answer the phone and find mom/get the child themselves.
In the end, "my phone died", "i was a work and missed the call", "the call didnt come through", is JUST an excuse for being unprepared after being specifically told to be prepared by having a emergency contact list.
I didn't have a pager/cell phone until after I had kids...my MIL/FIL, DH and daycare provider had my work phone where the secretary would forward the call to voice mail , or OMG! walk her butt down to find me to answer an emergency call. I was never unreachable. Even my dh, even when doing cross country, on-site waste removal, I had supervisors numbers, who in turn could call the client on site contact person to go get him.
If we were unavailable we had LOCAL people as emergency backups. That could actually pick up our kid in an emergency. Was it easy when we lived 100miles from our friends and family? NO, it wasn't, but we still made sure to create those contacts with people who could. Because that is what you do when your child is in the care of another.Comment
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I'm not upset about her emergency contacts not being able to get here. The grandma that I called answered and would have helped out, but was out of town. She called her husband and he could have come, but by time he wrapped up his work day and drove here it would have been only a half hour before DCM's normal pick up time. They were willing to help, but with the timing being the way it was I told them not to worry about it.
The friend that was listed did not answer and I never heard back from her.
They do not have a home line, so since her phone died (probably did happen when she was sleeping, she didn't feel well at all) I couldn't reach her. Yeah, if it was an accident, it could have been bad to not get a hold of her, but it wasn't. It was only a couple hours and DCG was fine.
DCM's husband is normally the one who is very easy to get a hold of at any time, and can always leave his job to be here quickly. He's deployed right now, so this was the first time I've ever had to use her emergency contacts.Comment
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You need to tell that Mom that you need to be able to get a hold of her. Had it beem a worse emergency you would of been in trouble. Her back up person doesnt sound very reliable. Maybe ask if there is any one elso she can add to the contact list.
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Oh man I'd be mad, and I agree with whoever said that you let her off too easily. Most phones BEEP to let you know it's about to die. Mine does for at least 6 hours PRIOR to it dying, so I know to charge it. And if she was at HOME, yeah, it should have been able to be charged. What if her kid broke a bone or worse?! UNACCEPTABLE!
And if I was you, I'd ask for 2 additional backup people because it has already been proven that her current backup is not ALWAYS available.Comment
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I'd be livid. I make parents give me a home number, moms cell, dads cell, grandparents on each side home and cell, 2 emergency contacts and if they don't have a direct line at work, I get their boss's direct line.
If I deem a child needs to go home. The parents have 45 minutes to get here. It's $1.00 per minute if you are late. I am not equipped to care for sick children, nor would I want to.Comment
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