Breakfast Club Rant

[Annalee]

I'm the same... no outside food & my policies state that we ALL sit together for each meal; I have only terminated one family for not understanding they couldn't send in open baby food jars etc etc then tried to demand that their child got to eat whenever he wanted (after kid turned a year old)... same parent tried to tell me little man couldn't go outside when he was a baby and wasn't to get dirty ( it was spring & summer)

All I have to do is tell parents the state doesn't allow me to accommodate multiple eating times and that generally solves the food issue for me.

[LysesKids]

Not as easy to get away with that wording when most the babes are under 12 months ... feed on demand under a year old & work them into the schedule; here most catch on by 6-7 months, it's the one drop-in mommy that throws everything off. Her 6 month old is on a schedule an hour or two off my FT babies (everyone is under 12 months at moment) totally screwed my Wednesday last week - little man wanted to eat & sleep when the others did & mom was pissy with me - told her that her schedule at home doesn't work in group care & that it's Monkey see, Monkey do here.

[Cbear]

Breakfast Club Rant

I would sit down and type a letter to the parents - a friendly reminder. In the letter, tell them how a typical morning goes when 3 kids show up unprepared. I find my parents are very sympathetic when they "see" the whole picture this way.