What Is The Dumbest Thing You Have Ever Heard a DCP Say?

[MarinaVanessa]

It says you are on the food program and provide all snacks and meals.Now does that include breast milk because that would be so helpful.Sure lady,let me squeeze that out just for you.

OMG you and I must have had the same lady interview. I had one that swore up and down that the food program told her that I was required to provide breast milk. She wanted to know who's breast milk it was ... um yours .

I had a difficult time convincing her that what they meant was that we would give the babies breast milk but the moms provided it. She was so adamant that I was wrong that I ended up giving her the number to the food program and asked her to call them again to confirm then once she did that she could call me back ... she never did call back. My money is on that she called, they clarified and then she was too embarrassed to call me back.

[MarinaVanessa]

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This was exactly my reaction as well.

[sugar buzz]

I had a screaming infant for eight straight hours, before I finally called DCM. (It was the infant's first day.) DCM came to pick up and said, "Have you tried picking her up and saying, Shhh....shhhh....shhhh?" OMG--why didn't I think of that?!!! Wait, let me grab a pen...

[Annalee]

I had a screaming infant for eight straight hours, before I finally called DCM. (It was the infant's first day.) DCM came to pick up and said, "Have you tried picking her up and saying, Shhh....shhhh....shhhh?" OMG--why didn't I think of that?!!! Wait, let me grab a pen...

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[SignMeUp]

I had one mom say she got locked inside my garage. Ok, the door locks from the inside. All she had to do was turn the knob.

You 'made me' remember another one :: I used to have two doorbells at my door. One for upstairs (where I lived) and one for downstairs (where I had my childcare).

One parent would consistently call me on the phone to tell me that she was at the door. I asked her why she didn't just ring the bell ... ? She said she did, but it must not work. Each time, I would go out, ring the bell, and it worked :confused::confused::confused:

Finally, I asked her which bell she was ringing. The UP. Or the DOWN.
She said: Whaaaat? What do you mean, up or down? I asked her to show me which bell she was ringing. She picked the UP bell. I said: The daycare is DOWNstairs, right? Ring the DOWN bell. (You know, the lower one. The one below the other one, that is the UP one.)

She could not and never did, grasp this concept.

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[Unregistered]

snow days

When school closes due to winter weather so does my daycare it's in my parent hand book! I also make sure it's on the all the local news stations. I had a daycare mom tell me she seen on the news we were closed and can I call her to let her know we are closed. HELLO lady I put it on the news so you can see it DUH! It's not my fault they wait until 10 or 11 at night to call off the local schools.

[My3cents]

never became a client......

but at an interview I had a parent tell me to let the diaper fill up nice and good because diapers are expensive.

After hearing what my lunches are like I turned it around on the parent and asked what she fed her child at home. 6 month old. Ramon noodles, chicken nuggets, french fries and once in a while soda pop.


I was like this

[Sugar Magnolia]

I've mentioned this before in other threads......but nothing beats the dcm who wanted me to hold her child over the sink to pee. Not the toilet, mind you, the sink everyone uses to wash their hands in. And then was surprised when she was termed after I caught her doing it. Yeah. Good times.

[Blackcat31]

I've mentioned this before in other threads......but nothing beats the dcm who wanted me to hold her child over the sink to pee. Not the toilet, mind you, the sink everyone uses to wash their hands in. And then was surprised when she was termed after I caught her doing it. Yeah. Good times.

OMG! I forgot about sink peeing mom! :: ::

Still makes me laugh out loud! ::

[Mom of 4]

I once had a mom say that her son had surgery (heart) as a baby and he was not allowed to play hard or get upset. In the next breath, she goes "But he can do all the same things kids normally do" and listed a WHOLE lot of contact sport-like activities he's tried at home.

That same mom said if he disobeyed me, I could "pop" him in the mouth. Um NO.

After I closed, a mother ci and asked if I had openings for a child on a strict diet. Said they didn't eat pork. Referred her to my old neighbor as she took over my child care for me. The neighbor said that the mom told her she didn't want pork products in her home...even after hours! WHAT?!!! Like freaking seriously. The neighbor didn't sign her; told her that while she wouldn't feed her child any pork, that it was unreasonable to tell her that SHE could not have it AFTER hours.

And, I did backup care for another provider 5x for a child who was 8 months old, screamed ALL day long, and his mom packed chicken legs, cheetos, and capri sun for lunch. I would always send this lunch back home. It was the same food all 5 days I had him that particular month. I told my friend NO more backup for the kid after the mom accidentally texted her that she thought I talked too much and she didn't really care about the kids' day...and the text came to ME.

[Muslimcommunity]

The pork thing and the hitting thing makes me wonder if they were Muslims? We had a Muslim family move here and they said I couldn't feed their child pig products and not to let the other children eat it as they didn't want it near their child. They feel pigs are very filthy animals. They also wanted me to hit their child. In their schools, even in America, they hit the children and the parents agree. To be fair, the child was very well behaved.

[cheerfuldom]

It says you are on the food program and provide all snacks and meals.Now does that include breast milk because that would be so helpful.Sure lady,let me squeeze that out just for you.

oh no! I cannot believe someone would be that stupid LOL

[cheerfuldom]

Would it be okay if my son walked to daycare in the morning and you can call me when he gets there to make sure he's safe? I have to be to work really early and thought he could walk down when he wakes up.(He was three and they lived two blocks away)
I said hmmm,I don't know,maybe I could call dhs and see what their opinion would be?
She was serious!

oh my word, this makes me so sad. I wouldnt even want my school agers to wake up in an empty house let alone get themselves ready and walk to school.

[Meeko]

I've mentioned this before in other threads......but nothing beats the dcm who wanted me to hold her child over the sink to pee. Not the toilet, mind you, the sink everyone uses to wash their hands in. And then was surprised when she was termed after I caught her doing it. Yeah. Good times.

I remember that one!

[cheerfuldom]

I have a local daycare provider friend that was told a family was Wiccan (at the interview) and was that okay.....my friend is like "ummm, yeah it doesnt matter what religion daycare families prefer to practice in their own homes. It does not affect the daycare arrangement" well I guess this daycare mom took this as in invite to bring materials and a lesson to the daycare and set up shop to teach the kids about Wicca!??! My friend said she just brought stuff in the next day and started talking and passing out brochures of some sort and my friend was so shocked that it took her a minute to step in and say "yeah thats not going to happen". I guess she ended up terming this family quickly because mom wanted to come by and breastfeed often.....a preschooler.....and demanded that she do it in front of the other children to normalize breastfeeding. eeekkk!

I will say that I am all for extended breastfeeding but it is not necessary to disrupt daycare so you can come in every two hours to feed a preschooler and then demand that the other kids sit down and watch :eek who does that???