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So I just had a showdown with daycare mom. This is the one who left for cheaper care and came back. Well policies have always been a huge issue with her and this morning I had enough.
The deal is DCKs have to be here by 8 for breakfast or eat before they come. So DCM sleeps until the last minute (has told me "I was going to have her here on time but wasn't ready to get up yet"). So she jumps in the car in the morning and gives DCG who is 16 months a breakfast bar in the car. Every mourning she hads her to me and says "she's all sticky she is still eating". Well my rule is no outside food from home. So today I tell DCM "this is not fair to me, never again either she gets here on time for breakfast or she is finished and cleaned up before she comes, that may mean you have to get up fifteen minutes earlier, but you are a mom now". She says to me, "I didn't know the no outside food rule". So I asked if she read her handbook and she said no. GRRRR I told her that she had signed a contract saying she had and she needs to go home and read it. Now she starts crying and says "you you are saying I am a S*(& ty mom. I said "No I am telling you that you need to get your stuff together, parenting is not always easy I have been a parent for 25 years and I know that, but you are a parent now". Then she says "well I don't know what to feed her that she can eat". Grr this convo again so again I tell her all the things we eat and tell her just cut the food up and sit with her while she eats. The she says "but what about when she won't eat, she wouldn't eat any dinner last night". So again we go over that she won't starve herself.
She may start looking for other care, because I told her that I would not let her or any other parent come in here and disrupt my program and try to change how I run my business. She said she wasn't doing that. I told her "but you are if you expect me to make and/or clean up after the same meal several times a day, that takes away from my reading to the children, working on colors and all that. It isn't fair to me or the other parents and children to not have policies". I hate confrontation, but sometimes I guess you just have to do it. Backbone growing more.
The deal is DCKs have to be here by 8 for breakfast or eat before they come. So DCM sleeps until the last minute (has told me "I was going to have her here on time but wasn't ready to get up yet"). So she jumps in the car in the morning and gives DCG who is 16 months a breakfast bar in the car. Every mourning she hads her to me and says "she's all sticky she is still eating". Well my rule is no outside food from home. So today I tell DCM "this is not fair to me, never again either she gets here on time for breakfast or she is finished and cleaned up before she comes, that may mean you have to get up fifteen minutes earlier, but you are a mom now". She says to me, "I didn't know the no outside food rule". So I asked if she read her handbook and she said no. GRRRR I told her that she had signed a contract saying she had and she needs to go home and read it. Now she starts crying and says "you you are saying I am a S*(& ty mom. I said "No I am telling you that you need to get your stuff together, parenting is not always easy I have been a parent for 25 years and I know that, but you are a parent now". Then she says "well I don't know what to feed her that she can eat". Grr this convo again so again I tell her all the things we eat and tell her just cut the food up and sit with her while she eats. The she says "but what about when she won't eat, she wouldn't eat any dinner last night". So again we go over that she won't starve herself.
She may start looking for other care, because I told her that I would not let her or any other parent come in here and disrupt my program and try to change how I run my business. She said she wasn't doing that. I told her "but you are if you expect me to make and/or clean up after the same meal several times a day, that takes away from my reading to the children, working on colors and all that. It isn't fair to me or the other parents and children to not have policies". I hate confrontation, but sometimes I guess you just have to do it. Backbone growing more.
but same thing. I reminded her she initialed and signed it. But after dad picked up tonight she did come by and pay me for next week A day early.
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