Email From DCP

[DaisyMamma]

Maybe you should text back "Are you sure you fed him? Did you always take your prenatal vitamins??? Did you drink while pregnant?"

Just tell her asking leading questions like that feel like accusations. If she has something she needs to say, she needs to do it directly.

I know it is frustrating.. that stuff get's under my skin, too.

On top of it all they forgot to pay me!
I sent a note saying so and that a $5/day late fee applies. I was out yesterday morning and when I returned I found a check. No late fee

[e.j.]

On top of it all they forgot to pay me!
I sent a note saying so and that a $5/day late fee applies. I was out yesterday morning and when I returned I found a check. No late fee

The upside is she now owes you an extra $10, right?

[Cat Herder]

On top of it all they forgot to pay me!
I sent a note saying so and that a $5/day late fee applies. I was out yesterday morning and when I returned I found a check. No late fee

Forgot? WHO forgets to pay their bills??? Not likely... Blew it off until it was more convenient for her sounds more appropriate.

Have you started interviewing for her replacement family, yet?

**Child issues are enough work to earn your pay, "childish" adult issues are not in the job description...

[Unregistered]

I'm seriously upset right now.
Dcb just left 1.5 hrs ago. He was totally normal all day and we had a normal day. Just before pickup I had him sitting with me for about ten minutes while we waited for mom. He was a little quiet at that point.
Mom comes in to get him. Getting him ready to go, signs out. Etc. Then says did he just wake up cuz he seems real quiet? I say no. She asks how he was today and I said great, totally normal. He's been quiet the past few min sitting with me but other than that crawling around, happy, normal day. That's that. She leaves.
Emails me an he later and asks if he was ok today. If he fell or if I gave him any medication. I reply no, normal day, no meds.
Now I'm sitting here like what???? Totally no trust there. I'm completely offended. I don't have permission to give meds and they never gave me any and if I did it would be on his slip and so would any falls, etc. So why even ask those questions? unless the kid is tototally comotose, in which case I would think they would call, go to the DR, but not send an email!! ?? Is this weird, or is it just me?
I don't even know how to put into words what I'm feeling.
This isn't the first conversation they've made me feel this way and I do not like it. At all.

I feel that i want to term! But I don't want to look like I'm guilty of something, as I did nothing. But I'm seriously insulted.

Hmmmmm

And its 7pm. This is my family time and now I'm stressing about THIS.

This is why I stopped taking the kids of first time parents...they are so paranoid and almost strange. I am sure I was the same way with my first but as a DP it is way too hard to deal with. I wouldn't overreact to the email though, I think they were just trying to rule stuff out because they are probably just worried about the little guy. I'm sure he is just coming down with something and as a first time parent I guess you don't realize that kids become quite off prior to showing symptoms of illness. I think they are genuinely just clueless about how a kid acts when he starts to get sick. After doing childcare for 10 years and being a mom of 3, I know that when the kids get quiet it is time to get out the Tylenol, buckets and Kleenex.

Ignore that email and enjoy your family time. If they honestly think you medicate the kids to sedate them so they are calmer during the day, then they should probably find a different DP.

[AmyKidsCo]

First time parents can be really weird. Then there are some that are really great too.

Just to CYA you might want to document everything that went on - the email, what she said what you said, what the child was like all day. You may never need it, but it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

That said, I rarely remember to document things as much as I probably should.

[DaisyMamma]

First time parents can be really weird. Then there are some that are really great too.

Just to CYA you might want to document everything that went on - the email, what she said what you said, what the child was like all day. You may never need it, but it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

That said, I rarely remember to document things as much as I probably should.

Great idea.

I didn't have to ask for the late payment fee. It was brought in cash.