Silliest Thing A DCP Ever Complained About

[spedmommy4]

Had to ask one family to leave because their child was so violent. He was just about 3 (just turned if I remember) and would kick and hit all day. Started out at 2 days per week, then went full time. His first fill time week he kept picking on the kids, then at nap tried to suffocate one with a blanket. Moments latter tried to pour baby powered on him while straddling the poor boy!
We moved him out of the nap room, and let mom know that day that he would need to leave. Her request? "well do I get my money back for the week?"
She then proceeded to report us for child abuse, because that's the ONLY reason her precious baby would do those things...

Another parent came to me one morning irate and yelled at me that it was MY fault she HAD to buy her spoiled 4yr old a cake last night. :confused: I asked why and she said because when he was in time out (near our kitchen at the time) he saw my birthday cake that I was SO mean in not offering to him ... in time out... that she was FORCED to buy one on the way home...

Whoa!

I feel like we could write a very entertaining "how not to raise your child" book from the collection of stories on here.

[Josiegirl]

Yeh, that cake story really ummm takes the cake. Bad provider forcing momma to buy her ds a cake. I worry about the future of some of these kids.

[TXhomedaycare]

These are great! I had a dcp that wanted me to basically document her child's full day. She wanted to know what and how much of each item 3 yo dcb ate and what he said and did. She even came one day to watch him while he was here and questioned him on everything. Once I saw her for the helicopter parent she is and she saw that I was not going to document every part of her child's day we parted ways.

[JackandJill]

I have had parents complain about "screen time" because my TV was in the same area as the daycare. I NEVER put the TV on during daycare, we don't even have cable. My own kids are allowed to watch TV in the morning while I get ready for work and while I am cooking dinner and on weekends. I explained this multiple times but the parents were constantly mentioning/complaining about TV and its negative side affects on kids, and their concern about dck being exposed to the TV while at my house. I finally moved the TV upstairs completely away from any daycare areas just to shut them up.

Fast forward a year and a half, and their little one has started talking. All she talks about is Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol, Curious George, ect. So I guess TV really isn't all that bad

[MissAnn]

I don't know how many of you use handwriting without tears… But one mom complained that Matt Man does not have a neck. She told her child to make sure to put a neck on Mat Man every time.

[e.j.]

This is hilarious

I can laugh about it now.

I don't know how many of you use handwriting without tears… But one mom complained that Matt Man does not have a neck. She told her child to make sure to put a neck on Mat Man every time.

I wonder if our dc moms are related?::

[lovemydaycare0912]

I let the kids explore with peanut butter. I told all parents before hand. Mom said I was wasting food and that I could be giving it to the homeless. I asked her why didn't she go and feed the homeless herself then and she said she does. On Thanksgiving. That's it. Just 1 time a year. This is the family I termed a while back. Dcb had a blast with the peanut butter.

[Pandaluver21]

Whoa!

I feel like we could write a very entertaining "how not to raise your child" book from the collection of stories on here.

I could write a book on just this parent, ugh! One of my first families, and VERY much the reason for some of my policy's now .
One day at pick up the same little boy came over and held my hand "aww cute" right? ... No, he actually grabbed my hand to wipe boogers up my arm... Mom laughed and I left the room (leaving them with our other provider) I ended up texting the mom later apologizing for leaving without saying anything. She wrote back and said "Yeah really, boogers are part of the job. He just did it to you because I do it to him.."

[Josiegirl]

I consider myself truly blessed to have normal sane parents. All your stories are head-shaking hilariously sad(for the kids and what they're learning from adults) 'are you kidding me?' stories. It's like what the heck are they thinking???

I have only 1 little snippet that I remember from probably 25 years ago. Dcb was 3-4 and always bugged my own ds. Dcd told my son he could hit him if he wanted to. I said no, he cant. But my story pales in comparison.

[Mad_Pistachio]

I let the kids explore with peanut butter. I told all parents before hand. Mom said I was wasting food and that I could be giving it to the homeless. I asked her why didn't she go and feed the homeless herself then and she said she does. On Thanksgiving. That's it. Just 1 time a year. This is the family I termed a while back. Dcb had a blast with the peanut butter.

who doesn't feed hungry on Thanksgiving? she should try something like, I dunno, June 1-st or something. people eat every day. :dislike:

[Pestle]

who doesn't feed hungry on Thanksgiving? she should try something like, I dunno, June 1-st or something. people eat every day. :dislike:

What she said. I grew up on gov't assistance. We had three turkeys in the freezer one Thanksgiving. . . after a long spring, summer, and fall living off of store brand mac and cheese, canned potatoes, and oily peanut butter. (Canned potatoes. CANNED. POTATOES. White crumbly flavorless lumps in water. Nutritional value is about what you'd get out of eating the label off the can. Who buys that in the first place, much less sends it to the food bank?!)

[Mad_Pistachio]

What she said. I grew up on gov't assistance. We had three turkeys in the freezer one Thanksgiving. . . after a long spring, summer, and fall living off of store brand mac and cheese, canned potatoes, and oily peanut butter. (Canned potatoes. CANNED. POTATOES. White crumbly flavorless lumps in water. Nutritional value is about what you'd get out of eating the label off the can. Who buys that in the first place, much less sends it to the food bank?!)

I used canned potatoes in a salad (with 100500 other ingredients, so they worked okay), but eating them by themselves, like potatoes? c'mon. and fresh ones may be actually cheaper.
we have a FreeCycle group in town, they collect food for Thanksgiving/Christmas that the group leader distributes herself. good, they feed people. but then Spring comes, with all the lack of vitamins, and Summer, with heat and all... and everyone forgets about those people they fed so well over the holidays. as if they only need to eat for about a month a year.
I'm not going to brag that I volunteer at a soup kitchen: I don't. but it is in the Summer I remember all the canned stuff I've been squirreling away and take it to the food bank. no, no canned potatoes it is a drop in a bucket, I fully realize it. but, hey, "do what you can and let it be."

[DaveA]

Probably the parent who kept telling me I needed 5 sets of everything so that every child could play with any toy at any time. Every time I tried to explain the importance of learning sharing/ taking turns/ cooperative play is turned into some variation of "but then DCK won't always get what he wants".

[Pestle]

Probably the parent who kept telling me I needed 5 sets of everything so that every child could play with any toy at any time. Every time I tried to explain the importance of learning sharing/ taking turns/ cooperative play is turned into some variation of "but then DCK won't always get what he wants".

Like so many of these, the only response is, "I think what you're actually looking for is a nanny."

[MarinaVanessa]

The craziest thing that anyone ever asked of me was when a DCM asked me to not only NOT tell her son NO but she wanted me to also prohibit everyone from saying NO. And I'm not just talking about her not wanting us to tell him NO but she didn't want the use of the word NO at all, ever. So even if he asked me a question that required a NO as an answer ("Can penguins fly?") she didn't want me using the word, didn't want the daycare kids using the word, didn't want my own kids or husband using the word, didn't want me to allow THE OTHER PARENTS FROM USING THE WORD NO!

I told her NO ::