Poll: Least Favorite Age Group To Provide Care For

[BumbleBee]

School agers are my least favorite age group to provide care for

[nannyde]

school agers

[kitykids3]

Definitely school agers and I am so glad I haven't really had any. They are not only usually defiant and more rowdy, but are sneakier then too if they want to be.

[crazydaycarelady]

Schoolagers would have to my least favorite group so I stopped watching them altogether. That leaves the 1yos as my least favorite age group. Don't mind the babies, don't mine the 2 an ups but 1yos - UGH!

[mema]

School agers! Love mine, just not other peoples

[LK5kids]

Infants...
Have always had good luck with SA.

[blandino]

We stopped caring for school agers. I don't necessarily dislike them as a whole, but caring for them while caring for my under 4 crowd is what I hated. Especially on those days they were out of school.

[CrackerJacks]

SA, they have too much energy and most of them have terrible attitudes.. I love the 2yo group..my fave!

[Blackcat31]

School agers! Love mine, just not other peoples

Same here.

I definitely loved my own at that age but there were many days I didn't like them all that much.

[Play Care]

INFANTS! I do not have the magic touch with babies - or the last two just really did a number on me! I also find that when I start children so young, they tend to behave more like "mine" and give me the hardest time.

[makap]

Uggg! School agers for sure! Make me want to pull my hair out!!
Actually it is age 4 and up for me!

If there would have been an option to choose 2 ages that are my least favorite I would have chosen school agers and 4 year olds. I love them all, however they just get to be way to much work after a certain age and are ready for more than what I can provide. They are always bored, they are always hungry, they are constantly tattling on each other, more fighting, they demand more attention than the babies, I can go on and on and on. ::

Children start school here at 4. Thank goodness, because by that time they are ready to go!

I love newborn to age 3.

[MN Mom]

I voted 3 year olds, but if there was an age group range it would be Infant to 3. I've decided I enjoy them once they are talking and potty trained. My favorite kid right now is an after school 6 year old 3 nights a week. I recently did 2 days/nights where he slept over because his mother was on vacation and Gma can't handle all 3 kids at once. He was a DREAM to care for. He and my son are bff's. He's well behaved, creative and fun to talk to. Maybe it helps because his mother is a teacher, I don't know. But I'd take 10 of him in a heartbeat!

[canadiancare]

I chose 3 year olds- mainly because I stop at age 4 because they go to school. I have had some wonderful 3 year olds in the past but I have also had the tattle tale, worry about everyone else but myself type.

[williams2008]

I voted babies, I had twins and they changed my mind about accepting anymore babies. Next is the school agers,I stopped caring for them back in August.

[williams2008]

I chose 3 year olds- mainly because I stop at age 4 because they go to school. I have had some wonderful 3 year olds in the past but I have also had the tattle tale, worry about everyone else but myself type.

I have a 3 year old now, he is the oldest one here. This child wants to be in everbody's conversation, including mine and my husband. He tattle tales all day long and whines all day if he doesn't get his way.