Ugh Vent Dehydration

[daycare]

I am so done with this subject it's not even funny. Today was my last and final conversation about DCB still not consuming any liquids all day and parents still having 2 year old on the bottle at home..

I am so frustrated with this whole situation that I decided that I give up. I guess i will just have to allow the boy to be here and not drink or have soiled diapers. Parents told me that they won't cooperate, even after saying that they would.

I am beating my head on the wall trying to solve this issue.I am only fighting for the health and safety of the child, why can't the parents see that....????????

I swear I am getting those t-shirts made that say I come in peace........ ok not really, but why do I feel like the enemy?

ok im done.....ugh

[nannyde]

Daycare....

You are asking them to remove their peace and quiet. Taking him off the bottle at home means they will have to hear him cry and they don't want to hear him cry. They want the no crying and they want the TIME they get ... the peace they get while he is drinking bottle.

This is not complicated.

Is there some reason why you can't just give him bottles until they take him off at home? Are you not allowed to by law?

If it weren't for the sister ratting them out they would hold firm that he isn't having it at home. Now they know the sister will tell so they are saying "so what?" he's our kid... we will do as we like and you will do as you are told.

I would tell them that while he is under my roof that I will give him a bottle twice a day. I will not take him off the bottle until he is able and willing to drink out of a cup a decent amount each day. I wouldn't spend another second discussing this with them. Just tell them what you will do and drop it.

I would offer him a cup with a tiny amount of milk in it every day at meals. If he drank that I would give him more. If not, I would give him a bottle after each meal just to get the liquids in him.

Taking him off the bottle is THEIR job. They aren't asking you to not give it because they don't want him to have it or because they want him to be weaned off of it. They are telling you not to do it because they KNOW now how AWESOME it is to receive a kid every evening who hasn't had one. They know how he latches onto to it and settles down for long periods of time because he is so thirsty and hasn't got his **** on all day long.

THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE DIGGING ABOUT THIS. The crazy thirsty CRAZY kid who settles down and ****s bottle to tick the hours away while he's on their clock.

The reason you aren't getting thru to them is because to you it is about liquids. To them it is about peace and quiet and getting by with the least amount of time dealing with him at night... and I would bet bedtime.

You can't just sneak the bottles in and have them not know it. They've had the recent experience of a really thirsty kid who hasn't gotten his **** on all day and they are going to know immediately when he doesn't go after it like he has been.

So just be honest with them and tell them that you are going to put him on the bottle at your house and will take him off ONLY when he actually drinks out of a cup easily and a good amount. You will let them know when that happens but this will be your last discussion. Then I would load him up with a good full bottle after meals and right before he went home every day.

With you getting into hot weather he's going to need extra so I would make sure I timed that right before departure.

It may be reccomended to take them off the bottle at one but there are special needs kids that still need it. He may be one of the special ones.

[daycare]

No reason I can't give the bottle, that's why I went and just bought one. I'm done all done with trying to assist them. And you are so so right. They just want their quiet time so they don't have to deal with the little guy.
So tomorrow when he arrives I will tell them until you stop the bottle I am not going to stop either.
I already discussed the hot weather, heat exhaustion and other issues that will,not could will happen. So they don't hear me when I talk, two can play that game. I don't hear them either when they are asking me to stop the bottle.
I love reading your post. Thanks so much for making sense of this and easing my mind about it.

Like you said all done talking about it! Lol