Silliest Thing A DCP Ever Complained About

[Play Care]

I had one complain that the reason he missed out on his daughter's holiday party at her preschool was because I had closed the day before for a snow day:confused:
Of course all the other times he had taken days off (still sending in her in) had *nothing* to do with his lack of PTO

(And he never attended any preschool function or participated in anything extra they did, but he wanted to guilt me into believing it was some how my fault. )

His new DC is open until 5:30 and even though he's home by 4:30, she's at DC until close. Don't miss him at all.

[childcaremom]

The last center I was at (years ago) I had a family ask if I would leave piles of food on the floor scattered throughout the room so their child could crawl & walk around while grazing on the food. She said this is what they do at home because he wouldn't sit and eat at the table.

I've had multiple families who had grazer children.... but they asked me to leave the food on the table, not the floor.

[childcaremom]

I had a mom who wanted her 12 month old to just fall asleep on the floor wherever she got tired. That's how they did it at home. Baby would just crawl around until she was exhausted and crash out on the floor. When she woke up, she would get back up and crawl away. It took a few weeks of training, but she did end up being a great napper, in a pack n play.

I've had multiple interviews with this type of family, too. Increasingly over the past 2 years. I ask a lot of screening questions about nap time but still I end up with a few of these, here and there. See my other threads on nap issues. I was never able to get them to acclimate.

[Mad_Pistachio]

Must be her year has more than 52 weeks?

there is a joke about a man going to immigration services and asking how he can move to the US. the officer hands him a paper and says, "here, just fill this application out." the man then asks if he could move to Italy instead. the officer again hands him an application and asks him to fill it out. then the man says, "but what if I want to move elsewhere?" the officer hands the man a globe and says, "here, choose the country and let me know, I'll find the correct application." the man looks all over the globe for a few minutes and then asks, "do you happen to have another globe?"

they must be related. another globe, another calendar...

[Baby Beluga]

I had one that did this and the food piling infant request, too! He was my screamer baby (and last infant-EVER). They called him a 'free range' baby. DD babysat for them, and not even their home was childproofed. NOTHING. He had no routine, no schedule, no set sleeping area. His whole life was an unstructured mess. DD said they treated him like their dog. eg "Dcb want a treat, come here, come here" and would sprinkle food on the floor.

That is exactly what is reminds me of, having a dog.

[happymom]

That is exactly what is reminds me of, having a dog.

Even most dogs have more structure than that.

[Unregistered]

When I first started teaching, I had a dcm complain that she didn't like me cheerfully telling her that her dcg "had a good day." She explained that dcg horribly misbehaved at home, so she didn't like hearing that she behaved for us at school. Then, she told my teaching partner that I had just given her a "blank stare" when she told me this.

[Thebabyteacher]

I work at a Center and we had parents who were up in arms because their kids weren't allowed to bring in their tablets to use "if they got bored". The children were 1 1/2 and almost 3.