Spend Time With Your Kids!!

[providerandmomof4]

What about the parents that can't go shopping, to appointments, or run errands around the house with their children in tow? These are all great learning experiences for kids. This is great time to talk and bond with your children. But for some reason it is impossible to hold their kids hand and walk through a store???????? Baffles me!

I feel the same way! I had a dcm that had a day off and told me she would still be bringing dcg because she had a dr apt. I thought...Okay, well does your dr apt last the entire day? And to make me even more frustrated....I have to take her child on all my kids' dentist and dr apts. I mean, cmon lady...

I'd rather they not even tell me when they have the day off but are still bringing their child to dc!!!

[lovemykidstoo]

I agree with everyone's posts. I don't work on Fridays for the very reason to spend time with my kids. They're getting older now so they don't want me at the school really, but I do what I can and in the summer we do things together. So last week I have 2 teachers and the one was off to go to Florida, so I didn't have that dcb, but the other teacher has 2 girls with me and I had them for their normal 8 hours a day for both of their scheduled days and then another parent had the week off and wanted to clean her house, so she sent her child the normal 9 hours a day both days. I took Thursday off because I knew if I didn't, then I would have the same kids. Pissed me off to have all of the kids when the parents were home doing whatever. I know that some will say that hey they're paying for it, what do you care what they do. Well, it does bother me. These kids see their parents less than 3 hours a day. I feel bad for the kids.

When I had my son I was still working outside the home. We don't have famly that would take care of him, so everything we did, we did with him. Even when my husband was out of town and I had to shovel the front steps and sidewalk, I would put him in the exersaucer in front of the door so I could see him and shoveled. He went everywhere with us and then when my daughter was born and I quit and started daycare, same thing. I think that's why half of these kids don't know how to act in public is because so often, they're sent to grandmas so mom can go to the store. It's unbelieveable what parents cannot do with their kids. I have dads that have time off in the summer and they drop their 3 and 4 year olds off so they can cut the grass. When our kids were small, they were out there pushing their bubble mowers while we cut the grass. Drives me nuts!

[julie]

So, so agree with everyone here. I know that they're paying me, but the toll it takes on their children just rips my heart right out. The kids KNOW if they are being abandoned. They KNOW. Some kids in my neighborhood have pointed out their Dad's truck in the driveway while we walk by. They know their Dad is home and has chosen not to be with them. For someone in care 40-50 hours a week, how do you think that would feel? I bet there are some pretty lasting effects from it.

I also really dislike the moms that tell me that on top of working full time, they are a full time mom. Um, no. That just tells me you are bad at math. When is this full time mom gig going on? I think we're probably closest to that definition because most of us are home with our children while working full time taking care of others, but I feel I am still not completely full time as a mom. I would love to be able to afford to be a full time mom and do special things just with my kids all the time. My kids get ME all day, but they have to share and I wish they didn't. I would love for them to have ALL OF ME. Just ticks me off when someone who spends less than two-three awake hours a day with their kids talking like they are in the same boat, and THEN they take off all the time and leave their kids in daycare because they need a "break" from their children. How ridiculous.

[Unregistered]

One family last week, Dad worked 15 hours, Mom worked 24. Thier children were in care 43 hours. You can't get that time back. Leaves you at a loss for words when my own child asks "So if she isn't working today, why are they here?" or "Isn't today a holiday?"

[lovemykidstoo]

I get other parents making comments to me about the kids that were here last week when they knew the parents were off. The one mom said, oh david is here? Isn't his mom a teacher and off this week? I said yes, she says huh. Had a couple do that.