You Know You’re A Daycare Provider When....

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I'm pretty sure if you had 4 four year olds of your own...you'd look like a grandmother no matter how old or young you were!

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[midaycare]

Someone posts a thread called "blowouts", and you know exactly what they are talking about. Yet ... you still have to click. Why, oh why did I click?

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Someone posts a thread called "blowouts", and you know exactly what they are talking about. Yet ... you still have to click. Why, oh why did I click?

I know why ::::::
So you can find out the latest daycare provider swear words.
Here, I'll start:
ButtWipe :: (best said while driving. without children. )

[ashleyh]

You go to pay for your order at the drive through and pull out a sock from the drink holder to put your drink in.::

[jenboo]

I'm in the process of training my puppy, so I've noticed my using the same terms and noises I do with the puppy as I do with the dck's. They do respond well to my clicking noise, though... ::

I use an ehhh ehhh ehhh sound with my dogs.... It means no/freeze/don't even think about it.
I now use this with the dcks too. Works great ::
I have even caught them using it with each other ::
They are 2.5 yrs old and younger

[ihop]

When you have food/drool/snot mouth prints all around your knees from 6 little mouths trying to chew on you

[Maggie]

You go to someone's house and can instantly spot 10 things that aren't childproof. I do this all the time and have to stop myself from correcting it.

[midaycare]

I use an ehhh ehhh ehhh sound with my dogs.... It means no/freeze/don't even think about it.
I now use this with the dcks too. Works great ::
I have even caught them using it with each other ::
They are 2.5 yrs old and younger

That's one of my sounds too - it does work great!

[spud912]

You go to someone's house and can instantly spot 10 things that aren't childproof. I do this all the time and have to stop myself from correcting it.

Or you go to a hotel and immediately start child proofing it. "Ah, if only I brought some plug covers!!"

[KDC]

My 'daycare lady senses' start buzzing when I see kids at someone else's house jumping on the couch with sippy cups (rules are no sippy's outside the kitchen and NO JUMPING ON THE COUCH!) I'm totally screaming 'noooooooooo' in my head ::

[Naptime yet?]

My 'daycare lady senses' start buzzing when I see kids at someone else's house jumping on the couch with sippy cups (rules are no sippy's outside the kitchen and NO JUMPING ON THE COUCH!) I'm totally screaming 'noooooooooo' in my head ::

I'm terrible at doing this, at looking at kids through my provider eyes. But my SIL is a teacher & she does the same thing, only I think I'm probably more critical...

[kathiemarie]

I get this ALL the time!
Or I get 'wow you must love kids!'

Once an older lady told me "I think you need to find something else to do with your time at night!" She was dead serious. ::

[Moppetland]

...you can't go shopping without always looking for stuff you can use in your day care.

... you stare at children in public misbehaving and you think to yourself "s/he needs a time out"

... you go grocery shopping and bring back food for your day care and forget the food that your own family eats

... you talk about what a DCK did in daycare that was cute or funny during one of your social gatherings with your friends

... you revolve your whole life around your day care

[ihop]

Not necessarily specific to childcare but.... When you see unsafe sleeping practices at someones house and desperately want to steal all of their pillows and blankets so they cant do it anymore.

I went to my cousins last week to see her and her 6wk old. She was sleeping in a bassinette with four baby blankets and two stuffed animals completely cushioning her in. I did say something about it nicely and casually but she got pretty defensive. "we never had an issue with ds" "she usually sleeps with us anyway" ()

[Kimskiddos]

Not necessarily specific to childcare but.... When you see unsafe sleeping practices at someones house and desperately want to steal all of their pillows and blankets so they cant do it anymore.

I went to my cousins last week to see her and her 6wk old. She was sleeping in a bassinette with four baby blankets and two stuffed animals completely cushioning her in. I did say something about it nicely and casually but she got pretty defensive. "we never had an issue with ds" "she usually sleeps with us anyway" ()

Oh yeah! I have a niece-in-law who just had her 5th child and she is always posting photos on Facebook of her 2mo in a bassinet just full of blankets and pillows! I cringe every time I see the photos. They live 5 hours from us and I just barely know her so don't feel I can say anything to her. But man oh man it really bugs/worries me. I did mention it to my friend (the step gma) who went up to visit last weekend. Hopefully she said something.