These Kids Crack Me Up

[Pepperth]

Actual conversation between DCB and myself

DCB: "Where do you work??
Me: "I work right here."
DCB: "What do you do?"
Me: "I watch kids. This is my job."
DCB: "Oh, like, I though you had a real job."
Me: (Facepalm)

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[Josiegirl]

Hahahaha!! Yep, we get to play with you guys all day!

[Rockgirl]

Lol! A similar conversation took place here recently with me and two kindergarten girls.

Dcg1: Do you ever go to work?
Me: I work here, taking care of you all. This is my job.
Dcg1: WHAAAT?!?
Dcg2: Yeah, your mom PAYS her to watch you.

[childcaremom]

My dcks don't believe it, either, . We talk a lot about what jobs their parents have and what we think their parents are doing at work and then they always ask what my job is. I usually get the same reaction

[MarinaVanessa]

My OWN kids don't believe that what I do is a real job ::.

[laundrymom]

From one of my 3s this morning.
Her family has an owl nest in their yard. One of the Owls left the nest and has been stuck in their patio. Not quite ready to fly.

"Lissy, did you know we saw a owl and it pissed at daddy?"
"Hissed at daddy. HISSED at daddy. Hhhh Hhhh Hhhhh. Like Harry's name sweetie"

[Pepperth]

My OWN kids don't believe that what I do is a real job ::.

I get that too. My son keeps asking me why I quit my job to stay home and run a daycare. I think he likes to hear the part about where I wanted to spend more time with him.

[Thriftylady]

My OWN kids don't believe that what I do is a real job ::.

I am not even sure my husband does most days!

[MarinaVanessa]

I am not even sure my husband does most days!

I used to get this a lot. I have a snarky personality and I'll be the first to admit I'm vindictive. I quit doing anything around the house to clean up that wasn't daycare related ... I cleaned enough to pass an inspection if licensing came but really I just collected all of my family's belongings and made piles of their stuff in their rooms. I also stopped paying for anything ... I told him that if what I was doing wasn't a real job then I wasn't getting paid with real money. That helped drive the nail home.

PS: We're still in marriage counseling but things are getting better ::

[Febby]

I had that conversation with one this morning.

DCB: Where's my mommy?
Me: At work.
DCB: Why aren't you at work?
Me: This is my work.
DCB: Really?!

I also get asked a lot if I'm a mommy or if I have a baby in my tummy.

[mamamanda]

I stuck my foot in my mouth with this convo one morning. Dcg 4 kept asking why I didn't work and after explaining many times that this was my job, ds asked me why I work at home. I responded that I missed him so much when I was away from him that I decided to work a job where I could spend more time with him and have fun with all the kids. Then dcg looked at me and asked, "Why doesn't my mommy want to work at home with me?"
Not at all what I meant by that. I just explained that different people are good at different jobs and while I love working with kids and helping them learn new things her mommy was really good at her job and enjoyed helping people do such and such. I made mom's job out to be really important, which it is, and dcg said ok...but I felt awful after that.

[DaveA]

My OWN kids don't believe that what I do is a real job ::.

About a month after I opened my oldest was playing at a neighbors. When I went over the Dad (who runs a handyman service) asked me if I was needing work as he was about to have an opening. My son told them I was home because I didn't have a job and couldn't find one.::

It can be traumatic for a kids when they realize that this is my job and I'm doing this for a reason other than "just wanting to play with them"

[pandamom]

Hahaha. I work in a center so each room has three caregivers.

when kids get dropped off, we will sometimes explain that mom or dad have to go to work and as soon as they are done they will pick dck up. We especially do this when a dck is having a rough drop off to explain why mom or dad have to go.

One of my coworkers was on leAve and me and the dck were doing the "who is here today" song. Basically I show a picture of someone and the kids point to the child or we say they aren't here, or are at x on vacation, etc.

We got to my coworkers photo and a little girl excitedly said "Ms. blahblah (not her real name haha) is at work!" I guess that would be the only explanation to a 2 yeR old for a caregiver to not be at the center ��