Annoying Parents--Really

[texascare]

I swear this is really about annoying parents and not something to buy!
I was already to post in the other section and then decided not to......Do any of you have any parent that just annoys you? Like no matter what you say they do the opposite or just are a constant pain? I love my job but there are days certain parents just get on my nerves. I have one particular dad that when he drops off HAS to be recognized by his daughter. He stands and watches her and he knows darn well that when he stays it upsets her and she always goes over with hands up toward him and cries and he has to make a scene out of it. He will just stand there watching her as all the other parents come and go. Each time I tell him he needs to leave. Mom drops off, barely walks in the door and the child waves by and runs in! Mom has talked to him, I have talked to him and he still acts like this. The child is now 20 months old. It gets to be real old every other morning when dad drops off and it is really starting to trickel down to the other kids starting to cry when she does. Just wondered if I was the only one.....

[Blackcat31]

I swear this is really about annoying parents and not something to buy!

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Just wondered if I was the only one.....

...and NO, you are not the only one.

[Breezy]

I have a set of parents like that. The dad never responds to anything directed towad him. I tell him abouthis DDs day and he rarely responds or says things directed to her.

The dad youre talking about sounds like my husband kind of haha. He loves that he is DSs favorite and loves that he cries when he leaves and gets so excited when he comes home.

[bunnyslippers]

Oh yes. I have one DCM that drives me absolutely bonkers. I am not even sure why - she is nice enough. Just annoying. She is a stay at home mom, and is always the first to arrive and the last to pick up. She hangs around in my driveway forever. She crawls all over my floor, hugging her son both at pick up and drop off. She never remembers her monthly check, and plays dumb about it all the time. She lets her kids run wild through my house, despite multiple reminders that it is not allowed. Her daughter, who doesn't come here, always needs to use my bathroom and she always goes in my fmaily bathroom, upstairs from the daycare, without asking. They also bring 9,000 toys from home every day, even though I immediately put them in his backpack when he gets here. Even her voice tone grates on my last nerve. I am not having them back next year, and literally am counting the days until they are gone (3 more after today). I would love to tell her to leave, but she has never done anything that offensive. Just not my kind of person!

[B Lou]

[QUOTE=texascare;235283]I swear this is really about annoying parents and not something to buy!
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Yes I have a parent who walks in 1/2 late and then says "oh she was hoping for pancakes this morning". Well maybe if she would have been on time DCG might have had the choice. But not today. Mom thinks this 8 year old should get to do and get whatever she wants.
Can't wait to see how this DCG acts in a few more years.
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[Zoe]

All of my daycare parents are fabulous. Love them to death. One of my daycare GRANDPARENTS on the other hand.....ugh. You can tell that this person clearly wants dear grandkid at home and not a daycare so there's a lot of passive-aggressiveness toward me whenever I am telling daycare kid about our day. I don't do passive-aggressive, so it peeves me when she does this. Doesn't matter anymore since this is the child's last week, but I was so ready to say something before I got the notice, now it seems pointless to start drama by calling grandparent on their crap. Whatever. I'm done with it.

[texascare]

i am so glad it's not just me. sometimes this particular parent is late and often forgets the check and i want to be a smart a*** and open the door and 'say oh i decided i am opening at 10 am today come back in 2 hours......just to see what they would do. i mean after being here a year you would think they would remember that they are supposed to pay me!?

[jojosmommy]

[/QUOTE]Yes I have a parent who walks in 1/2 late and then says "oh she was hoping for pancakes this morning". Well maybe if she would have been on time DCG might have had the choice. But not today. Mom thinks this 8 year old should get to do and get whatever she wants.
Can't wait to see how this DCG acts in a few more years.
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OMG! I would say, "We did have pancakes! About 25 minutes ago. They were delicious!"

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

Yes.

Drives me crazy.

[cheerfuldom]

I have had a few that were just annoying.

One Dad that sounds like the one in the OP. He would always stand around but not do or say or want anything.

Now it is several years down the road and while I dont take care of this kid anymore, I am good friends with the mom. The Dad is actually just a really big nerd at heart and just awkward and geeky now that I really know him. It took me a long time to figure that out though.

[MarinaVanessa]

Yes, I've HAD them before. I say had because for those parents I started the whole "say goodbye outside" thing and when they were ready then I would meet parent at the door and bring DCK in by himself. I did have one DCM that made sure that DCB cried even when we did the "goobye outside" thing so for her I upped it a little but and told her that if DCB came in crying and was inconsolable after 5 minutes then she would have to come back and pick him up and take him home for the day. After the 2nd day in a row that I called her she told me "You know, I can't keep this up. I do have a job ya know" to which I replied "Well then stop making him cry". That stopped on day #3 .

[Bookworm]

Seems like that's all I've been posting about lately. There were four in my class. Two are gone (one of them was the "special princess"). I lose one of them on Friday (praise the Heavenly Father) and the last in August ( praise Him again). And what's so bad about the situation, in August, a new batch of crazy moves over. Sigh.

[Unregistered]

I've had a few here over the years but there was one who I terminated about a year and a half ago who grated on my last nerve SO bad that I couldn't even stomach seeing him, listening to him or having the least thing to do with the jerk...we called him Stalker Dad because he either WANTED to know everything about everything (even though most of his questions had absolutely nothing to do with his child!) or he actually KNEW different things about us or "conveniently" turned up in places we were...

It got to the creepy point when he happened to mention that he realized that I had traded cars because my new car had MY plates on it...he actually had my number memorized! I started to get paranoid that he had the house bugged!

[saved4always]

Yes I have a parent who walks in 1/2 late and then says "oh she was hoping for pancakes this morning". Well maybe if she would have been on time DCG might have had the choice. But not today. Mom thinks this 8 year old should get to do and get whatever she wants.
Can't wait to see how this DCG acts in a few more years.
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OMG! I would say, "We did have pancakes! About 25 minutes ago. They were delicious!"[/QUOTE]

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Love it!

[e.j.]

Do any of you have any parent that just annoys you? Like no matter what you say they do the opposite or just are a constant pain? I love my job but there are days certain parents just get on my nerves. ..... Just wondered if I was the only one.....

Oh, yes! You're not alone. I've often said, "It's not the kids that make this job challenging as much as it is some of the parents."