What The Heck?

[SilverSabre25]

... I am secretly a camel

You wear one of those "Stadium Pal" things don't you? ::

[Unregistered]

You are all so funny

Nope, not from NY.
Stadium Pal? :O yikes!
Phones. Wouldn't ya think? However I am constantly told (by one or two dcp) that my clock is "wrong".
Dopey. Yes, it is dopey. I really think they want us to hand them each an iPad or something. Which I would do. Over my dead body Technology is like sugar. Parents should decide how much

[DaisyMamma]

I'm not logging in, even though my examples are pretty specific! I have a DCM, who refuses to discipline her son at drop-off and pick-up. He is becoming a tyrant. She always gives me the impression that she resents me stepping in or thinks that I am being too harsh with him. She excuses all of his misbehavior on "being a boy," being tired, or missing his Dad. When I told him to stop kicking my front door because we only kick balls outside, she hugged him and asked him if he was "okay." When she was trying to wrangle him out the front door, and he ran over and stood on a fragile part of my vacuum cleaner, I told him in a no-nonsense voice to "get off my vacuum and go get his coat on." She quickly intercepted with a sing-song, "Feet on the floor." She says that she doesn't believe in saying no or "squelching his spirit," and he's so "cute" that she has a hard time disciplining him. I keep thinking that prison will squelch his spirit and cuteness soon enough. (Joking!) I've met this kind of parent many times. That's not what baffles me. It's that when she gets home, she slaps his arms and spanks him for misbehaving. I'm so confused. This isn't a post about spanking--she's free to discipline however she wants. I just don't understand the 180 at home--you slap him, but are disapproving if I tell him to get off of my vacuum?

How do you know she is spanking him?

She's "dealing with it" by venting to us about it. I thought that was one of the things we were here for?? I see lots of parental behaviors that ****, but I just roll my eyes and move on. If it bugs the heck out of me, but it's not something I want to invest time and emotion into having a heart-to-heart with the parent and trying to change it, then I vent here. It really does help.

Yes it does.
All questions can be answered here with the same choices. Deal with the problem head on. Term. Or **** it up.
Exploring different ideas from other providers on here really helps you decide on which to choose and quite often how to move forward with that decision.