What Is The Oddest Request From A Parent?

[BumbleBee]

Don't use the word "no"

Dose kid up on tylenol before our daily walk so kids legs wouldn't hurt

Don't let infant on the floor (crawling age)

Don't let infant put toys in his mouth

Spoon feed 3 year old

[countrymom]

I had a mom who wanted me to hold her daughter over the sink to pee....because that is how she does it at home. (????) I said no. One day at pick up time, I caught her in my bathroom, holding the girl over the sink peeing. Gross.

I remember that post

[Sugar Magnolia]

she was probably doing elimination communication but I totally understand why a provider is not willing to continue doing this at daycare.

Yep. She was doing EC, and AP, and was OCD herself, making for a real PITA situation at daycare. Too many acronyms! ::

[e.j.]

asked for money to get to work, knowing they owed me for daycare, but promised to make good on it.

let the child fill up the diaper nice and full, because diapers are expensive you know.

Your reply reminded me of the dc mom who asked me for money so she could have her morning coffee from Dunkin Donuts. She also asked me to check her hair for lice once since her husband was away on business and she had no one else who could do it.

I also had a mother who wanted me to change her child's diaper only every 4 hours or more. I was to put lots of diaper ointment on his bum so that if he pooped, he could sit in it longer and make it the full 4 hours.

I had one that asked if it were lightening and thundering while we were playing outside, would I please bring her child inside. She actually called once during a storm to make sure I had followed her instructions and brought the kids in. Did she really think I would stay out in the yard with the kids during a storm??:confused:

One wanted me to cover for her if the sheriff's dept showed up looking for the kids. She had apparently left her husband before she moved to my state and took the kids with her without telling her husband.

[SquirrellyMama]

One wanted me to cover for her if the sheriff's dept showed up looking for the kids. She had apparently left her husband before she moved to my state and took the kids with her without telling her husband.

Oh my!

[Country Kids]

I had a mom who wanted me to hold her daughter over the sink to pee....because that is how she does it at home. (????) I said no. One day at pick up time, I caught her in my bathroom, holding the girl over the sink peeing. Gross.

I think I remember you posting about that!

[AfterSchoolMom]

I had a set of parents request that I lock their child in my son's bedroom after school and leave them in there until pickup.

[Solandia]

I had one mom request to NOT feed her baby the bottle in my living room...only in the kitchen. Becuase they didn't want to start a bad habit by allowing eating in a living room. Sorry, that doesn't work for me, to leave the playroom for an infant feeding 3-4x/day for 15-25min each time. LOL.

[spud912]

Wow these are great! I had 2 interviews where they were denied immediately (one child had way way way too many health concerns and the other family had way too many red flags), but no "interesting" parents actually signed on, thank God!

[youretooloud]

I was asked to have the other kids stop wearing character clothing to my house because she didn't want her kids exposed to characters.

[JenNJ]

1. Do not use the word "no." Pretty common, huh?

2. "Baby doesn't like the breeze/wind. I am afraid that it will take his breath away forever. So if it is breezy at all, baby needs to be inside."

3. "We will supply you with music to play. We don't want her to hear anything we haven't approved." As if I would play something awful and curse filled. ::

4. "We try not to do chores while baby is awake. We want every moment filled with fun and laughter, not dishes and vacuuming." Do they have any idea what my house would look like if I did NO CHORES all day long with 7 kids running around???

[Country Kids]

I was asked to have the other kids stop wearing character clothing to my house because she didn't want her kids exposed to characters.

I had a mom do this for my daughters bday party. It was a themed party and she wasn't sure if it would be appropriate as they didn't want her daughter influenced. They were 7 or 8 I believe.

[crazydaycarelady]

I had a dcm ask me to shove dcb's rectum back in if he pushed so hard it inverted and started coming out. She kindly gave me some latex gloves to use. Fortunatly it never happened when he was here.

Same mom asked me to go through dcb's poopy diapers looking for a penny he swallowed AT HOME!

[sharlan]

I had a dcm ask me to shove dcb's rectum back in if he pushed so hard it inverted and started coming out. She kindly gave me some latex gloves to use. Fortunatly it never happened when he was here.

Same mom asked me to go through dcb's poopy diapers looking for a penny he swallowed AT HOME!

Uh, no, but I'll be happy to save his diapers for you.

[Live and Learn]

I had a mom who wanted to come at lunch to breast feed which I was fine with.....what I wasn't ok with is she had never taught her baby to take a bottle or to eat anything from a spoon so the baby was going to get only one feeding a day and be here from 7-3:30. Uh no!!!!!