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I can't take anymore! My 17 month old's mother called this morning and asked if her cousin could drop the baby off at 10 instead of their scheduled drop off time of 9. I told her that I really need them here at 9 so I can start our day and activities, but since she (the mother) had gotten in a car accident and she is relying on her sister to bring the child to daycare right now, I said that would be fine.
So, the other kids are playing in the back room, the dog is looking out the front door. I just finished eating breakfast and decided to look out the door with the dog. It's 9:08 and I see the 17 month old is walking up my sidewalk inside my fence BY HERSELF!!! And her adult cousin is standing outside of my gate!!! The adult had lifted the child over my gate and told her to go up to my door! SHE'S 17MONTHS OLD!!! I have 2 concrete steps that the baby would have to get herself up to get onto my porch. If my dog weren't looking out the door, I would have had NO CLUE that the child was out there!
I just can't get over this! It's almost an hour later and I'm still shaking and stuttering! (I shake and stutter when I get too upset) As the cousin was driving away, I started saying I think I need to just go work at McDonalds! I can't handle what some of these people think is okay to do with their children.
What if the baby had fallen down the steps and busted her head open? What if the baby had fallen down the steps and damaged herself in a life-long way (got brain damage for example)? Would the cousin have stood at the gate and made sure that I brought the child in my house, or would she have gotten in her car and driven off before I even noticed the child in my yard?
After I saw the baby on the sidewalk, all Hell broke loose. I yelled through the door to the cousin telling her she HAS to get the baby and bring her in. The dog started barking like crazy, so I had to yell louder at the lady. Then I yelled up the steps for my daughter to come get her dog. The lady is yelling back at me that she can't open the gate. I don't understand why she is incapable of lifting the normal gate latch but apparently it's a difficult maneuver for her or something! I start getting my dog up the steps and make him go with my daughter. The lady opens the gate and brings the girl in. I went off on her and told her that she can never do that again! She has to come into the house with the baby.
I don't know! I just don't understand some people.
I called my sister - (who did daycare for 25 years a while ago) to try to calm myself down. She couldn't believe this woman did that either. Then I called the mother of the child. She said the cousin had already told her that she put the baby over the gate and she said that she told her cousin off and said to her 'Don't you know how young my daughter is? What's wrong with you?" I told the mother to make sure that everyone who drops the baby off knows that they HAVE TO bring the child all the way into the house. I told the mother that I was so shaking up by this that I almost called her and told her to just come get the child because I was so upset that I couldn't calm down enough to watch her today. But I didn't send her home.
It's been an hour now and I'm still quite upset about this.
So, the other kids are playing in the back room, the dog is looking out the front door. I just finished eating breakfast and decided to look out the door with the dog. It's 9:08 and I see the 17 month old is walking up my sidewalk inside my fence BY HERSELF!!! And her adult cousin is standing outside of my gate!!! The adult had lifted the child over my gate and told her to go up to my door! SHE'S 17MONTHS OLD!!! I have 2 concrete steps that the baby would have to get herself up to get onto my porch. If my dog weren't looking out the door, I would have had NO CLUE that the child was out there!
I just can't get over this! It's almost an hour later and I'm still shaking and stuttering! (I shake and stutter when I get too upset) As the cousin was driving away, I started saying I think I need to just go work at McDonalds! I can't handle what some of these people think is okay to do with their children.
What if the baby had fallen down the steps and busted her head open? What if the baby had fallen down the steps and damaged herself in a life-long way (got brain damage for example)? Would the cousin have stood at the gate and made sure that I brought the child in my house, or would she have gotten in her car and driven off before I even noticed the child in my yard?
After I saw the baby on the sidewalk, all Hell broke loose. I yelled through the door to the cousin telling her she HAS to get the baby and bring her in. The dog started barking like crazy, so I had to yell louder at the lady. Then I yelled up the steps for my daughter to come get her dog. The lady is yelling back at me that she can't open the gate. I don't understand why she is incapable of lifting the normal gate latch but apparently it's a difficult maneuver for her or something! I start getting my dog up the steps and make him go with my daughter. The lady opens the gate and brings the girl in. I went off on her and told her that she can never do that again! She has to come into the house with the baby.
I don't know! I just don't understand some people.
I called my sister - (who did daycare for 25 years a while ago) to try to calm myself down. She couldn't believe this woman did that either. Then I called the mother of the child. She said the cousin had already told her that she put the baby over the gate and she said that she told her cousin off and said to her 'Don't you know how young my daughter is? What's wrong with you?" I told the mother to make sure that everyone who drops the baby off knows that they HAVE TO bring the child all the way into the house. I told the mother that I was so shaking up by this that I almost called her and told her to just come get the child because I was so upset that I couldn't calm down enough to watch her today. But I didn't send her home.
It's been an hour now and I'm still quite upset about this.
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