Why Do They Always Think The Worst

[MrsB]

So my husband always calls at 330pm everyday on his way home from work to see if I need anything on his way home. I have a mom that always picks up at the same time. So today she was 15 minutes late so I wasnt on the phone at pick up. She says to me "phone not working today". Excuse me? So then I explain to her why im always on the phone when she picks up and since she was late today i wasnt on the phone. Why am I always defending myself, and why is it daycare parents assume that what ever you are doing when they arrive is what you do all day?

I dont know how many times I have heard in an interview that their current provider lets them watch TV all day. How do you know this? Because the TV is on when they get there? I am sure there are daycares that do have the TV on all day but having the TV on PBSkids for a little in the afternoon when everyone is getting picked up doesnt mean that the kids just watch TV all day.
Especially when the kids come to daycare singing all the songs from kids shows, which means I know they are watching them at home for a significant time span.

[Blackcat31]

I would have replied "Nope phone is fine but your clock must not be working."

[Luna]

I would have replied "Nope phone is fine but your clock must not be working."

Bahahhaaa!
BTW I'm sure my families think the tv is on all day for exactly the reason you mentioned...we turn it on at pickup time to distract the ones who aren't being picked up at the moment. It lasts only as long as kids are still being picked up, but I can imagine what it seems like to the parents.

[beachgrl]

I would have replied "Nope phone is fine but your clock must not be working."

That is an awesome response, it's too bad we can't get auto forum responses to some of the crazy things we have to hear on a daily basis, like auto several responses in a nano second, pick our fave and relay it to the parents

[wahmof3]

I would have replied "Nope phone is fine but your clock must not be working."

Water I was drinking just came out my nose when I read this!!! ::::::::::::::
That response would've been perfect!!!!

I agree, why are we always having to defend ourselves?????

[Preschool/daycare teacher]

Because, to me, it seems some parents don't want to trust their daycare provider. I can understand wanting to make sure your child is getting the best care, but it'd be nice if they'd just ask if they are bothered by something we do/don't do. We get so many interviews from parents saying negative things about their past provider, and you just wonder what really happened, and what they say about us if they leave. We had a potential mom here the other day for a "tour". She kept talking about how her old babysitter was always on the phone, then she mentioned somewhere where someone had mowed and they didn't know anyone would be mowing while her daughter was there, and her allergies flared up so bad, and someone else had a mold problem and they hadn't told her that before she enrolled her daughter, so her allergies got really bad again...somewhere a toddler had bitten her daughter...I couldn't figure out if this was all one place, or several different ones. But I figured if they enrolled, the minute her daughter got sick, they would be pulling her out for some reason or other against us. Eerytime she'd say something against her old "babysitter", I'd respond almost as defending them. Mom: "She got bit there", Me: "Oh, they must have had a toddler. That's a normal toddler thing, sometimes", Mom: "yes, it was a toddler. My daughter doesn't bite like they did." I was thinking "I would HOPE not! She's 4 1/2 years old!" When she mentioned the babysitter always on the phone, I said something like, "Yeah, sometimes parents call us during the day, too, to check on their child. Especially if they are still new here, or if they had a bad morning. And we contact each other, too, if we need to pass a message on". Mom said, "yeah, but this was all the time all day". I was wondering, while she was talking, if they happend to be on the phone a couple times when she picked up and she assumed it was all the time. And the grass... when are they supposed to mow? If this was a "babysitter" that means it was in someone's home. If the girl attends from open to close (she told us they wanted to bring her when we opened and pick her up when we closed, without even asking what our open/close times are first), so there's no telling how many hours she was there each day. They have to mow sometime. When she came to pick up the paperwork, though (she came earlier than she'd told us it'd be, so the copies hadn't been made yet. So she just said they'd pick them up the next day. So far we haven't heard from her. She's probably telling the next daycare that we didn't even have the enrollment papers for her when she came to get them (without mentioning that they came early). and maybe telling them that we let the children run around all day without any structure...(they came right at a busy time and talked for a long time, her talking to me, the dad talking to the owner. So the children all flocked around to see who it was and when they got bored with the conversation, they started showing off...)

[Sunshine]

I would have replied "Nope phone is fine but your clock must not be working."

ROTFL!!!!

Water I was drinking just came out my nose when I read this!!! ::::::::::::::

I spit my soda out! LOLOLOLOL

[mac60]

Don't you just want to say "What I do in MY home is NONE of your business". Why do parents think they need to know everything we do?