Seen Any Craiglist PICS That Have Made You Cringe Lately?

[blandino]

Today, I saw a CL ad with a child, thinking it is the providers own, standing in the middle of the room in a saggy diaper staring at the TV.

Also, I HATE anything with characters. In the entirety of the daycare we have maybe 5 character items. One Woody from Toy Story, one Sesame Street toy, one Grover stuffed animal, and some balls & board books with characters on them.

[JoseyJo]

We have a few character posters (in primary colors!). I have noticed that the parents will point out a character to their child during the interview as a way to help them feel more at "home".

We have tan walls, cream trim, and very very few electronic toys so I don't mind a little primary as accessories

[cheerfuldom]

Today, I saw a CL ad with a child, thinking it is the providers own, standing in the middle of the room in a saggy diaper staring at the TV.

Also, I HATE anything with characters. In the entirety of the daycare we have maybe 5 character items. One Woody from Toy Story, one Sesame Street toy, one Grover stuffed animal, and some balls & board books with characters on them.

The diaper comment made me laugh but its really not funny. I am just now remembering a horrendous ad I used to see that was one large room with a giant sectional couch and a GIANT TV. The TV took up the whole wall, floor to ceiling. I wonder how they even got that TV in that room. The space had dingy floors and walls and NO toys or other evidence of children being there. Nothing in the picture but a couch and TV.

I have seen several with pics of kids partially undressed, totally inappropriate. Kids with dirty faces, eating junk food or candy, cords evident in the background, doing something age inappropriate (like a tiny baby parked in front of a computer screen). I have seen a few bad pics on licensed daycare facilities too and you wonder how these people stay in business.

[cheerfuldom]

Okay, I went thru CL ads and here are a few gems from various ads just from the last few days.

*selfies (how is that professional?)
*kids eating Taco Bell
*toddler child in a diaper, playing in a small pool, right next to a BBQ grill
*lots of pictures of kids faces and I doubt every parent has signed a media release. some of the pictures were in public places and clearly showing kids that were not a part of the group....doesnt seem very professional to me.
*pics of babies in a swing and it doesnt appear they are strapped in and no tray over the top of them either.
*picture of a sign that says READ....and the sign is not next to any books but next to a TV, that was one that made me laugh
*another picture of a partially undressed child
*bedroom playroom with no furniture or organization, just toys thrown in on the floor
*a picture of a swingset and a child has climbed up high on the side....too high and on the portion of the set that is clearly not meant to be climbed on.
*a picture of three little boys, all shirtless for some reason

I will say that I saw several really tidy, organized daycares with lots of natural light and appropriate play spaces so it wasn't all bad.

[MyAngels]

This thread made me curious so I looked up ads near me. Very few here seem to use CL, but it pulled up ads "nearby.". The funniest one was the ad calling out the daycare ads in their area for their grammar, punctuation and spelling errors. It was rife with those same errors ::. Pot, meet kettle.....

[MamaBear]

Wow Cheerfuldom... I feel like I know the same person you are talking about! hahaha... There is a daycare near me that does the exact same thing! She has 3 daycare babies - which she only cares for infants & toddlers I guess. She dedicates a very small area of her home to her daycare... It's just a dining room and thats it... probably 12x12 room.

She has 3 highchairs, 3 playpens, 3 swings, 3 rocker chairs & little tables in the middle of the room... all lined up and literally NO place for an infant or toddler to even try to crawl or walk around. She has a VERY high turn around and I actually have 2 of her ex-daycare babies. I see the pics on CL and I totally think its a red flag to see all that equipment in a cramped space.

Both daycare families that left her had the same complaints. She straight out tells the families that she uses a "rotation method". I've never heard of this. But basically she says she rotates them from high chair to swing to playpen to rocker chair and back to highchair again & so on. She doesn't believe in holding the babies and they must learn to console themselves and be independent at all times. Both babies I got from her daycare were supposably criers all day... wouldn't take bottles properly and just awful according to the other daycare lady... They are awesome and never cry for me and take their bottles... No problems at all!

She obviously is just in it for the money. If someone doesnt even want to hold a baby ever... they are just in the wrong profession. Makes me ill to think about. She brags about how clean & organized her home daycare is in her ads but its because her babies aren't allowed to leave their designated spaces! UGH!

[Hunni Bee]

You guys forced me to go look at my area's....

But it was surprisingly tame. A majority of them didn't have pics, but most of the ones that did looked pretty decent. They had nice materials and the pics that showed kids showed them doing something constructive.

A few had only pics of what you could tell were the persons own kids and rooms/toys, and one just showed pics of the kids sitting around on park benches looking blank. One flake just had selfies of her with her husband/boyfriend and friends .

It sooo many though...makes me a bit nervous. I've got to get started soon...

[nanglgrl]

there's one I see from time to time--bright, primary colored walls and floors with bright posters of cartoon characters all over the walls, toys with nothign but characters from wall to wall....that one ad just makes me feel ADHD just looking at it.

Ads with visibly more kids than is allowed in our state

oh, and the photos with the provider looking sexy, or dressed for a night out, or not smiling, etc...those confuse me too.

At first I thought you might be talking about me, I have so many colors on my basement walls the kids call it the rainbow room. Lol. Thankfully I have no character pictures but we do have a lot of learning posters!
Our basement only has 1 window (the others are in the laundry room and bathroom down there) so the primary colors make it cheerful and bright.

[Nebula]

Ours are horrible, I have gotten lots of calls on my ad- saying it was the gem that stood out from the riff raff .

About colors: We use primaries for the moment, but I am in the process (it is an expensive process!) of transitioning to all natural wood seating etc, but since we are just getting started- I have to take what I can find cheap, so we have lots of primary colors right now.

But we don't do the character thing, other than some safari animals on the wall/ Here is a pic of our main area



And on the other side of the room, Blocks & Trains

[Laurel]

I didnt mean to imply that all equipment is bad. I dont think that at all. but when she says in the ad that she only takes 4 kids but has 8 pieces of equipment in the pictures and no open floor space, wouldnt you agree that the picture alone is a bit of a red flag for parents? and that number does not include high chairs for meals, another time when kids are put in equipment. plus combine that with what I already know about her (that she complains about the parents and kids A LOT....in fact I have never heard her say anything positive about daycare, she is my neighbor for clarification), that all combined is what made me cringe when I finally saw pics of the indoor daycare space.

Oh I understand. I know a provider that I think uses equipment way too much. So I get it.

Laurel

[cheerfuldom]

Wow Cheerfuldom... I feel like I know the same person you are talking about! hahaha... There is a daycare near me that does the exact same thing! She has 3 daycare babies - which she only cares for infants & toddlers I guess. She dedicates a very small area of her home to her daycare... It's just a dining room and thats it... probably 12x12 room.

She has 3 highchairs, 3 playpens, 3 swings, 3 rocker chairs & little tables in the middle of the room... all lined up and literally NO place for an infant or toddler to even try to crawl or walk around. She has a VERY high turn around and I actually have 2 of her ex-daycare babies. I see the pics on CL and I totally think its a red flag to see all that equipment in a cramped space.

Both daycare families that left her had the same complaints. She straight out tells the families that she uses a "rotation method". I've never heard of this. But basically she says she rotates them from high chair to swing to playpen to rocker chair and back to highchair again & so on. She doesn't believe in holding the babies and they must learn to console themselves and be independent at all times. Both babies I got from her daycare were supposably criers all day... wouldn't take bottles properly and just awful according to the other daycare lady... They are awesome and never cry for me and take their bottles... No problems at all!

She obviously is just in it for the money. If someone doesnt even want to hold a baby ever... they are just in the wrong profession. Makes me ill to think about. She brags about how clean & organized her home daycare is in her ads but its because her babies aren't allowed to leave their designated spaces! UGH!

same deal. I had a daycare family switch to me and the baby was supposedly a cryer but she did great with me for months.

[originalkat]

This thread is cracking me up!!!:::::: I think it is hilarious...and sad what some people put on Craigs List ads.

[countrymom]

september must be a slow month because there wasnt alot of pics. But I hate those who take selfies, esp. the boobie ones. Also, I've seen some rooms that are so over cluttered that I'm not even sure how kids play. Or how dirty some rooms are. The dust on the stuff (black dust) or white walls with hand prints all over the place.

[Emsdayhome]

yikes some of those ads sound interesting. I don't have baby equipment either other than highchairs and ONE pack'n'play which I use when I need to , but rarely. My youngest dck is 9mos. We play! I don't even have a couch in my daycare space, I have one antique rocking chair for me to sit on. The rest of the time, I am down on the floor, at their level playing with them, reading to them, showing them how to play trains at the train table, etc. Sometimes I'm on my belly showing them how to look into the baby mirrors.

[Crazy8]

I also only dedicate one room of my house to the daycare. :confused:

I did come across a pic yesterday of a baby sleeping on top of a baby comforter with a blanket over them and stuffed animals all around them. That was cringe worthy to me.