Alright, I put myself in a situation and I'm not sure how to resolve it. I only recently opened my daycare, as in this was my FIRST WEEK open. I advertised as infant only care and now have my own son (5 months) and two littles (a DCG at 3 months and a DCB at 5 months) I received an email before I decided to accept these two from a mom who needed care for her 13 month old. She described him as being very small for his age (he is) and a little quiet and shy (he is NOT) and that she didn't feel he would be able to handle himself with other kids his age. I agreed to meet him. Based on our initial meeting he did seem to be all those things but, as I already mentioned above, once he actually came into my care he ended up being NONE of those things. He is loud to the point that none of the infants can sleep....my own son goes to bed as soon as he leaves and won't wake up till the wee hours of night which has totally thrown his schedule off! I can't imagine what it's like for my other 2 DCK infants once they go home!
Additionally he has begun to throw toys, step on the infants, sit on them and then he gets mad when it's time for their bottles because he is STILL on a bottle himself but...and this is the most annoying part...he can't hold the bottle himself. He insists on sitting in my lap like a younger infant and having me hold it for him while he plays with a toy....this just doesn't seem normal to me. He seems to have been SUPER babied. He won't even let me use the toilet without screaming bloody murder at the door when I try to crack it shut.
The DCM is a super nice lady, she pays on time (she gave me the deposit, paid her first week, and has already paid for the next week) and I get along with her really well. But I'm starting to regret my decision. I'm worried about my own son and the other babies I'm watching, I can't trust this boy not to hurt them even as unintentional as I'm sure it is. Today was by far the worst day...I don't even want to go into details on why but he screamed and banged on the windows for an entire 2 hrs. All my babies were crying because of it and none of them would nap...one wouldn't even take her bottle she was so stressed over it. I'm thinking I need to consider terminating care but at the same time.....it was his first week with me, my first week as his caretaker...he is teething...he isn't used to not being around mommy...etc.etc. so I want to give it another week or so and see how things go.
On the side, I worry about terminating care because his mother actually brought toys for me to use...she said she was giving them to me...a slide, a play table, tons of stuff, for kids his age since I didn't have anything but little baby toys. So if I terminate him I know I will have to give it all back to her but it makes me feel so guilty having accepted them along with her son just to terminate them.
I'm just totally not sure what to do! Any advice? :confused:
Additionally he has begun to throw toys, step on the infants, sit on them and then he gets mad when it's time for their bottles because he is STILL on a bottle himself but...and this is the most annoying part...he can't hold the bottle himself. He insists on sitting in my lap like a younger infant and having me hold it for him while he plays with a toy....this just doesn't seem normal to me. He seems to have been SUPER babied. He won't even let me use the toilet without screaming bloody murder at the door when I try to crack it shut.
The DCM is a super nice lady, she pays on time (she gave me the deposit, paid her first week, and has already paid for the next week) and I get along with her really well. But I'm starting to regret my decision. I'm worried about my own son and the other babies I'm watching, I can't trust this boy not to hurt them even as unintentional as I'm sure it is. Today was by far the worst day...I don't even want to go into details on why but he screamed and banged on the windows for an entire 2 hrs. All my babies were crying because of it and none of them would nap...one wouldn't even take her bottle she was so stressed over it. I'm thinking I need to consider terminating care but at the same time.....it was his first week with me, my first week as his caretaker...he is teething...he isn't used to not being around mommy...etc.etc. so I want to give it another week or so and see how things go.
On the side, I worry about terminating care because his mother actually brought toys for me to use...she said she was giving them to me...a slide, a play table, tons of stuff, for kids his age since I didn't have anything but little baby toys. So if I terminate him I know I will have to give it all back to her but it makes me feel so guilty having accepted them along with her son just to terminate them.
I'm just totally not sure what to do! Any advice? :confused:
Comment