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Hi everyone, I'm a former licensed daycare provider from CO. I still hold a CO State License. I am hearing some of your stories and can definitely relate. Even AFTER I quit, I had parents act like real jerks.
The last story and it's still going around about me.
This woman whose child attended my children's school needed child care. I provided it for her for a time. Everything was great, wonderful, no problems. Then I decided I couldn't do it anymore because of the other horrors people were putting on me and had put on me over the years, so I chose to take a job and try working outside the home for a bit. I took a "leave of absence" and I gave her a notice and provided a list of names of other providers that know are good. Everything was fine. She picked her new provider and started with her, liked her, everything still fine. On the first day, the mom said her daughter was PROBABLY not going to be able to goto GNC (Good News Club) anymore because they can't find someone to take her home like I was doing, but they would let her know if the child wouldn't go before that Thursday. So, the assumption was that A was supposed to go to the program unless the mom called saying otherwise.
Four days later, all hell breaks loose. This woman had forgotten to call the provider to tell her that her daughter was not going to the program, then forgot to tell her daughter NOT to go to the after school activity, didn't tell the teachers etc...so the child went. The husband goes to pick up the child and the child's not at the provider's house. She tells him "I think she's at the school.". He starts yelling at the provider and rushes out. The provider texted me because she knows that my children also participate in the activity and asks me "A is at GNC right?" I text back "IDK, but GNC is today".
I get to the club in time to p/u my children and I see this woman's husband there p/u their kid. He freaks out on me saying they had called the cops and reported their child missing. Something didn't sound right. I called the provider and asked what happened. She said that all she knew is that the parents forgot what was going on and didn't remember to take the child out of the program and dad got pissy having to go pick up his child. So it sounded like they KNEW where the child was. Clearly, he called no one because he was there at the school ON TIME and no one else was. It seemed as if the new provider had said where she was and the only issue is that he "wasted his time".
So then, the provider calls me and tells me that the child didn't show up that Friday or Saturday and was concerned because the parents weren't answering the phone. So I texted the parents for her and said "Hey S wants you to call her". Next thing you know, I'm getting an earful from this crazy parent and being blamed for the fact SHE forgot HER OWN kid when *I* am not even the provider anymore!
She said "I called the police and turned you in" for bad child care. She said "You were A's provider and should have:
Given my info to the new provider
Let the school know her schedule
Picked up the kid so she wouldn't go "missing"
Well last I checked, I wasn't her child's provider anymore, miss "S" was. Last I checked I am not allowed to give her info to ANYONE not even the "new provider". Just because the new provider and I knew each other didn't give me that right. #3 since WHEN is it a former-provider's (or current providers') responsibility to tell the school someone else's child's schedule!? EVER? #4 I wasn't even on the list to pick up her child anymore, so how would that work? #5 and very important: THE KID WAS NEVER MISSING. She was in a program her mother and father signed her up for and even signed permissions slips. She never called anyone to tell them that the child wasn't supposed to go any longer, so what are we, psychics? How does HER forgetting make me a bad provider? Then she wanted a refund from the other provider and that provider told her where to stick it.
She blames everyone for everything, like almost all the crazy parents I had. So I quit. For good. I decided childcare abuse was not okay with me anymore. This is just the last thing that happened to me before I quit doing this thankless job. The kids were great. The parents ****ed!
The last story and it's still going around about me.
This woman whose child attended my children's school needed child care. I provided it for her for a time. Everything was great, wonderful, no problems. Then I decided I couldn't do it anymore because of the other horrors people were putting on me and had put on me over the years, so I chose to take a job and try working outside the home for a bit. I took a "leave of absence" and I gave her a notice and provided a list of names of other providers that know are good. Everything was fine. She picked her new provider and started with her, liked her, everything still fine. On the first day, the mom said her daughter was PROBABLY not going to be able to goto GNC (Good News Club) anymore because they can't find someone to take her home like I was doing, but they would let her know if the child wouldn't go before that Thursday. So, the assumption was that A was supposed to go to the program unless the mom called saying otherwise.
Four days later, all hell breaks loose. This woman had forgotten to call the provider to tell her that her daughter was not going to the program, then forgot to tell her daughter NOT to go to the after school activity, didn't tell the teachers etc...so the child went. The husband goes to pick up the child and the child's not at the provider's house. She tells him "I think she's at the school.". He starts yelling at the provider and rushes out. The provider texted me because she knows that my children also participate in the activity and asks me "A is at GNC right?" I text back "IDK, but GNC is today".
I get to the club in time to p/u my children and I see this woman's husband there p/u their kid. He freaks out on me saying they had called the cops and reported their child missing. Something didn't sound right. I called the provider and asked what happened. She said that all she knew is that the parents forgot what was going on and didn't remember to take the child out of the program and dad got pissy having to go pick up his child. So it sounded like they KNEW where the child was. Clearly, he called no one because he was there at the school ON TIME and no one else was. It seemed as if the new provider had said where she was and the only issue is that he "wasted his time".
So then, the provider calls me and tells me that the child didn't show up that Friday or Saturday and was concerned because the parents weren't answering the phone. So I texted the parents for her and said "Hey S wants you to call her". Next thing you know, I'm getting an earful from this crazy parent and being blamed for the fact SHE forgot HER OWN kid when *I* am not even the provider anymore!
She said "I called the police and turned you in" for bad child care. She said "You were A's provider and should have:
Given my info to the new provider
Let the school know her schedule
Picked up the kid so she wouldn't go "missing"
Well last I checked, I wasn't her child's provider anymore, miss "S" was. Last I checked I am not allowed to give her info to ANYONE not even the "new provider". Just because the new provider and I knew each other didn't give me that right. #3 since WHEN is it a former-provider's (or current providers') responsibility to tell the school someone else's child's schedule!? EVER? #4 I wasn't even on the list to pick up her child anymore, so how would that work? #5 and very important: THE KID WAS NEVER MISSING. She was in a program her mother and father signed her up for and even signed permissions slips. She never called anyone to tell them that the child wasn't supposed to go any longer, so what are we, psychics? How does HER forgetting make me a bad provider? Then she wanted a refund from the other provider and that provider told her where to stick it.
She blames everyone for everything, like almost all the crazy parents I had. So I quit. For good. I decided childcare abuse was not okay with me anymore. This is just the last thing that happened to me before I quit doing this thankless job. The kids were great. The parents ****ed!
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