Spin Off Thread - What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Had To Ask/Tell Parents

[MarinaVanessa]

I'm displaced because of the sandy storm No you Can't drop your children off to where i'am

This one right here wouldn't have even received a comment from me. All the client would have gotten from me would be a long and uncomfortable silence probably followed by a click and a dial tone.

"I know you are doing Elimination Communication at home, but I cannot allow, encourage, hold your child over the sink to pee. Its not allowed in a licensed center, for obvious safety and health reasons."

I KNEW this one would be in here as soon as I read the topic of this thread.

Here are mine:

Can you please not ask me to breast feed YOUR baby. I won't do it no matter how many times you ask.

Can you change your child's diaper before you bring him? His obviously overnight diaper at 10:00am drop-off is leaking all over my carpet.

Can you keep your 3yo's pocket knife at home please even though you swear to me that he can't get it open by myself.

(to a DCD) Can you not write cheeky things in the memo line of your check like "sexual favors" or "a good time". I mean, I think they're absolutely hilarious and everything ... my husband and probably the IRS and Law Enforcement just don't feel the same way ::

[mrsnj]

First of all some of the previous posts were WOW!....

No. I will not fully undress your crying son who doesn't want to go potty or get pee on himself so he needs all his clothes off and then try and catch his pee in a potty chair while he stands cause he doesn't want to touch himself. I am pretty sure those are all signs he is NOT ready and I have not been trained in pee catching.

No your child cannot get an ear infection because he fell out of his toddler bed last night. Thinking it might be because you didnt finish his meds from the ear infection he had last week!

No. I will not spank your child when they do something wrong even though you think they deserve it and I should.

Allowing sa child to do homework here does not mean I will tutor them and check it over. Nor will I make the science project that is due Friday that you forgot to do. Homework means just that. HOMEwork. I do not have time for one on one care. If you want to pay me extra to tutor after hours let me know.

[mrsnj]

Oh wow. The check memo thing is a big WOW

[sharlan]

This one right here wouldn't have even received a comment from me. All the client would have gotten from me would be a long and uncomfortable silence probably followed by a click and a dial tone.



I KNEW this one would be in here as soon as I read the topic of this thread.

Here are mine:

Can you please not ask me to breast feed YOUR baby. I won't do it no matter how many times you ask.

Can you change your child's diaper before you bring him? His obviously overnight diaper at 10:00am drop-off is leaking all over my carpet.

Can you keep your 3yo's pocket knife at home please even though you swear to me that he can't get it open by myself.

(to a DCD) Can you not write cheeky things in the memo line of your check like "sexual favors" or "a good time". I mean, I think they're absolutely hilarious and everything ... my husband and probably the IRS and Law Enforcement just don't feel the same way ::

I would be handing the check right back and ask that they rewrite it.

[Lavender]

Tomorrow I get to ask a mom to please stop letting her 14 month old son claw all over her face and smack her because he is now starting to do it to the other kids. I am in disbelief that I actually need to have that conversation.

[candlegal]

This is a child that would literally put ANYTHING in his mouth!

Your child ate dog poop today!

[Laurel]

Don't keep telling me that I charge too much for daycare and that you give me your whole paycheck and stop telling me a story your daughter said about marrying my son and that I better be paying for the wedding because you give me all of your money for my service.

Wow, no way I'd hear that more than once. I'd nip that in the bud.

To parent: "I don't like it when you say that to me so please don't say it to me again."

Laurel

[Laurel]

I have a dcm who is going to be a nanny this summer for her friend's kids so that she can make almost enough money to pay me so her kids can come to my house and her husband will have to pay the rest of what she doesn't make.

:confused:

Laurel

[Laurel]

For 14 month old daycare child: "His diaper rash is pretty bad, so let him go bare bum as much as possible today." (hmmmm not unsanitary at all)

During interview:" Can you leave the younder ones here sleeping while you get the older ones from school?" (nope, pretty sure that is frowned upon

Hands puke sodden child out at arms length over to me at drop off. Says "I'll be right back." Comes in with puke sodden car seat and toys "Where should I put these, can't handle the smell of them for the ride to work."

Those are just the first three that pop in my head.

Laurel

[CedarCreek]

This one right here wouldn't have even received a comment from me. All the client would have gotten from me would be a long and uncomfortable silence probably followed by a click and a dial tone.



I KNEW this one would be in here as soon as I read the topic of this thread.

Here are mine:

Can you please not ask me to breast feed YOUR baby. I won't do it no matter how many times you ask.

Can you change your child's diaper before you bring him? His obviously overnight diaper at 10:00am drop-off is leaking all over my carpet.

Can you keep your 3yo's pocket knife at home please even though you swear to me that he can't get it open by myself.

(to a DCD) Can you not write cheeky things in the memo line of your check like "sexual favors" or "a good time". I mean, I think they're absolutely hilarious and everything ... my husband and probably the IRS and Law Enforcement just don't feel the same way ::

My jaw hit the floor with the breastfeeding request! Just... Ew.

The pocket knife thing is a problem with one of my dcbs too!

[Laurel]

This one right here wouldn't have even received a comment from me. All the client would have gotten from me would be a long and uncomfortable silence probably followed by a click and a dial tone.



I KNEW this one would be in here as soon as I read the topic of this thread.

Here are mine:

Can you please not ask me to breast feed YOUR baby. I won't do it no matter how many times you ask.

Can you change your child's diaper before you bring him? His obviously overnight diaper at 10:00am drop-off is leaking all over my carpet.

Can you keep your 3yo's pocket knife at home please even though you swear to me that he can't get it open by myself.

(to a DCD) Can you not write cheeky things in the memo line of your check like "sexual favors" or "a good time". I mean, I think they're absolutely hilarious and everything ... my husband and probably the IRS and Law Enforcement just don't feel the same way ::

Omg, that last one!!!

Laurel

[Mister Sir Husband]

Oh wow... I'm not actually open yet, still in paperwork phase, but this thread left me really thinking I am making such a wonderful decision in opening a daycare in the first place.

[blandino]

Oh wow... I'm not actually open yet, still in paperwork phase, but this thread left me really thinking I am making such a wonderful decision in opening a daycare in the first place.

How so ? I am not sure I am reading your comment correctly.

[Mister Sir Husband]

This is a HUGE pet peeve for me. I just start talking. I talk WAY more than I would have if they weren't on the phone. I go on and on about what their kid did, the cute thing they said, what we're doing tomorrow, the weather, the traffic, etc. etc. Nonstop talking. I don't give them room to be on the phone. They are in MY house, and I will NOT be quiet so they can carry on a conversation. They should have told the person IN THE CAR that they'd call back after they pick up their child.

I also hate when they arrive and SIT in their car on the phone. If possible, I will walk outside with the kid and all his belongings, and stand by the driver's door. If the kid is older (8,9,10) I will send them outside to the car while I watch.

My thought here is that the child isn't considered picked up until the parent is in my doorway and talking to me about how much fun his child had today. If the parent wants to sit in the car on the phone, then fine.. have a good time with that as it's going to he quite an expensive phone call. My late pickup policy (in my contract) says we go by the clock in my home, and you can't see it from your car.

[Mister Sir Husband]

How so ? I am not sure I am reading your comment correctly.

Just not looking forward to dealing with some of these examples. Kinda hoping maybe I get one family with 5 kids and they pay me in advance by the month. (of course this is the part where my alarm goes off and snaps me violently back to reality)