Scared We'll Get Sued :(

[youretooloud]

We had an accident like that too. He put a GI joe figure in his mouth, then ran into a wall, and the toy guy cut the back of this throat.

[Crystal]

We talked to them Wednesday afternoon and my mom (who is the co-owner with me and is the one who has been in contact with them through this) said that the dad was very short with his answers. "How is he doing?" "Fine." "Please tell him we all miss him very much" "Ok." But like I said, they were never very totally friendly people to start. Oh and they are foster parents (this is their child though), so you'd think that they are the type of people who want to help kids and stuff, and they know that's why we do what we do....for the kids.

I thought if it was something large in his mouth, my worker would have heard him choking or coughing. But instead she heard no noise at all until he came out of the room and into the kitchen where she was, and that's when he started crying and she saw the blood.

I wish in a way I would have been the one working at that moment and saw everything, but then again I don't. I just want this to be over. I don't even care if they don't come back and don't pay that last week he was here. Just as long as this doesn't cost us a ton of money and we don't lose our business.

Wanna hear something ironic? We've NEVER had any sort of accident, reports made to State, etc at all in the year and a half we've been opened.....but exactly a week before this happened, a kid's grandma called and warned us that another family called licensing and CPS on us because her one-year-old who started walking too early and is very unstable fell and his his head on something which caused a bruise and a small cut. She told licensing that we're always under staff (lie b/c we always have more people than what's required), we don't have a fence (lie b/c you can't be a licensed daycare without one), and one day she picked up her kid in the evening and the daycare worker was asleep on the couch (MAJOR lie b/c how in the world would that happen with all the kids running around?!)........She's also 42 years old with 4 kids ages 1-17 and has had them in a total of 6 daycares! Wish I woulda known that before I accepted them! What burns me the most is she never once complained to us at all. She even said he's accident prone and falls all the time at home!

Okay....have you heard from CPS or licensing about that complaint that grandma says was supposedly made? If not, I'd be very suspicious, because if there had been a complaint made you would have heard from CPS/licensing withing a couple of days. If you haven't heard from them, Is Grandma a nosey busybody? I ask because if you haven't heard from them, it sounds like grandma might be trying to cause issues for whatever reason and she may have said something to this other family and now they have decided not to come back.

Hmmm.....something smells fishy to me.