Parents being my pet peeve? That was no joke!

[crazydaycarelady]

I have the most annoying dcm so I am just going to rant away. Sorry in advance.

First off she is too chatty and while she is chatting her kids are apes. I have a routine with the kids at good-bye time. I give them high-fives and knucks and say good-bye. So I am giving the kids their high-fives and saying good-bye 5 times, meanwhile dcm will be saying "what are you doing this weekend? or "Do you have plans?" Good. Bye.

While leaving yesterday she let her kid go down the hallway and look into one of the bedrooms (I am downstairs.) He went into the room where I have newborn puppies (foster dog) then ran downstairs and told all the kids. I am not showing the puppies to the kids yet because they are newborn and I told dcb this in front of dcm. Dcm turns and says "S we will look at them tomorrow." Um, no you won't.

This morning dcm had dcb tell me he wants to nap upstairs because the babies cry downstairs. Oh boo-hoo. I do have one dcg sleep upstairs because she does better in a room alone but I am not having this wandering knucklehead sleep up there!

Also dcm takes every Thursday off but the kid are here open to close. Whatevs.

[llpa]

Parents are by far the hardest part of the job!

[melilley]

I only have one dcm who annoys me, but she makes up for all the other parents who don't.

[BumbleBee]

I have the dcp who gets offended about EVERYTHING.

Send a newsletter home with a reminder? Obviously it was directed at her

Put a reminder of a closing date on the door? Obviously that must've been because she forgot once.

Ask for something to be sent or stay home? Well obviously I'm only asking her.


Honestly at this point I just let her assume whatever she wants.

[AmyKidsCo]

Parents are by far the hardest part of the job!

Definitely!!

[Blackcat31]

I have the dcp who gets offended about EVERYTHING.

Send a newsletter home with a reminder? Obviously it was directed at her

Put a reminder of a closing date on the door? Obviously that must've been because she forgot once.

Ask for something to be sent or stay home? Well obviously I'm only asking her.


Honestly at this point I just let her assume whatever she wants.

First..... (((((((HUGS)))))))) :hug:

I had one just like that.

Notice the use of the word "had"?

3 years, 4 months and 13 days too long if you ask me.

I just termed.

Of course, she thinks it was because of her.

Finally, she is right for once.

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

I am not good at hiding my feelings so I would be looking pretty annoyed at her. How do you handle this "NICELY" or as nicely as possible? Or, do you?

[Blackcat31]

I have the most annoying dcm so I am just going to rant away. Sorry in advance.

First off she is too chatty and while she is chatting her kids are apes. I have a routine with the kids at good-bye time. I give them high-fives and knucks and say good-bye. So I am giving the kids their high-fives and saying good-bye 5 times, meanwhile dcm will be saying "what are you doing this weekend? or "Do you have plans?" Good. Bye.

While leaving yesterday she let her kid go down the hallway and look into one of the bedrooms (I am downstairs.) He went into the room where I have newborn puppies (foster dog) then ran downstairs and told all the kids. I am not showing the puppies to the kids yet because they are newborn and I told dcb this in front of dcm. Dcm turns and says "S we will look at them tomorrow." Um, no you won't.

This morning dcm had dcb tell me he wants to nap upstairs because the babies cry downstairs. Oh boo-hoo. I do have one dcg sleep upstairs because she does better in a room alone but I am not having this wandering knucklehead sleep up there!

Also dcm takes every Thursday off but the kid are here open to close. Whatevs.

I'd be tempted to take ALL the DCKs to see the puppies except the one who already looked.

When he asks why he doesn't get to see them, you can say "you already did"

Sorry you are dealing with such a wimpy mom and major props for showing patience while dealing. I am not sure I could anymore.

[crazydaycarelady]

That is a great idea BC! LOL

My plan was for the families to not even know I had the puppies though because then I have to do show-n-tell everyday with every single parent and kid that comes in.

I think it is possible that I am just burned out, more burned out than ever before. But next week some kids leave for school and I am not taking on any more kids.

[taylorw1210]

I have the dcp who gets offended about EVERYTHING.

Send a newsletter home with a reminder? Obviously it was directed at her

Put a reminder of a closing date on the door? Obviously that must've been because she forgot once.

Ask for something to be sent or stay home? Well obviously I'm only asking her.


Honestly at this point I just let her assume whatever she wants.

I had a set of mother's just like this! Well, one was fine. The other was a drama queen. She thought EVERY policy I implemented or any change I made was directly because of her and/or her son.

[TwinKristi]

I have one that's the opposite!! I make rules because he finds loopholes in my contract and questions things all the time that are pretty obvious in my contract. Well I finally made a late payment policy (no one had paid me late before that) and a few other clarifications due to his finagling. But for some reason he's oblivious to the fact that he's why I made these changes and continues to do it! Ugh! I have collected $20 in late payment fees and $30 in late pickup fees! Haha! Only collected $10 from one other parent for a late pickup. I told my dh if he pays late for a 3rd payment in a row I'm just going to term them. Of course I SAY that now but come tomorrow I'm going to be so nervous! LOL

[Kabob]

I have the most annoying dcm so I am just going to rant away. Sorry in advance.

First off she is too chatty and while she is chatting her kids are apes. I have a routine with the kids at good-bye time. I give them high-fives and knucks and say good-bye. So I am giving the kids their high-fives and saying good-bye 5 times, meanwhile dcm will be saying "what are you doing this weekend? or "Do you have plans?" Good. Bye.

While leaving yesterday she let her kid go down the hallway and look into one of the bedrooms (I am downstairs.) He went into the room where I have newborn puppies (foster dog) then ran downstairs and told all the kids. I am not showing the puppies to the kids yet because they are newborn and I told dcb this in front of dcm. Dcm turns and says "S we will look at them tomorrow." Um, no you won't.

This morning dcm had dcb tell me he wants to nap upstairs because the babies cry downstairs. Oh boo-hoo. I do have one dcg sleep upstairs because she does better in a room alone but I am not having this wandering knucklehead sleep up there!

Also dcm takes every Thursday off but the kid are here open to close. Whatevs.

I had a dcm like that too. The lack of parenting drove me nuts. :hug: I'm with BC...too tempting to be a meanie and just not let him see the puppies.