Parents Who Use The Excuse "Sleeping In"

[E Daycare]

I was wondering how many other dcp always use the excuse "sleeping in" as a reason to why they are late.

Now I have a 21mo old myself. There is no sleeping in for us. Its up and at 'em at 7-7:30 EVERY day and breakfast at 8am sharp. Maybe its because I follow the SAME EXACT schedule every single day (its the same as my daycare schedule, or I should say my day care schedule was taken from my own) but the only time I get to sleep in is on Sundays where my dh gets up with our son (as dh sleeps in Saturdays). So when I get the "running late, we all slept in" excuse and its 10 or 11 oclock I just cant get over it. How is this possible? Do these kids really sleep in to the point where running late would be 10 or 11? I doubt it, its more of a "we just want to poke around" isnt it? I know for a fact that my one dck is up and ready to go most times when she would arrive at a normal time (between 7 and 8am) and rearing to go. If I needed to put her in the pnp for some time to maybe run upstairs real quick or put her down 'cause her mom said "oh she should be ready to go back to sleep" she would scream till my blood boiled.

My last instance was two weeks ago when the above mentioned dck was dropped off at 10 by the dcd. His excuse for not bringing her at 7:30 like agreed upon? "I was sleeping in". Now the case could be hes just taking his sweet time but I honestly think hes sleeps as hes mentioned to me before he sleeps right thru things and lets the mom get up. But HOW? This child screams like shes being stabbed. How does he ignore it?? How do you let a special needs child stay in a crib or pnp till 10am? (if this is true the case, which Im pretty sure it is...) My ex day care provider told me I shouldve called 123 Kids or whatever the number is to report neglect. This isnt the first instance with her. Hes used this excuse too but it was even later in the morning-11am to be exact. The mother says the same things too. Ive had this child long enough to know she does not entertain herself well but I guess other kids would? My son stays content in his crib for maybe 15 minutes after he wakes up. Then he takes a poop and I hear "mommy mommy". Then we get up, sing our good mornings and happy to see yous and get on with our day. Even on vacation.

Whats your take on the "We slept in excuse?" In my case I can actually picture the dcp sleeping leaving the dck to her own as these parents roll in looking like they did come out of bed. I get that they may have wanted to take their time in the morning and get a slow move on, thats fine. But for the part about "didnt get up till 10" I cant fathom and man am I jealous!!

LMAO

[dEHmom]

usually my kids are like clockwork, 615 they are up. part of that has to do with the daycare, because before I did daycare it was like 7am and I used to get angry because I could sleep till 8! . now even on weekends they usually get up at 630am. I think it mostly has to do with usually they are used to getting up and going to the bathroom at that time, so they are sort of trained to go at that time?

I know though, there is the odd occassion where if they are left to their own (no noise in the house) they sleep till 9 or 930. I would guess that's usually when they are coming down with a cold and take the advantage of extra sleep.

[DancingQueen]

I don't care if they are late as long as they
A) have told me ahead of time
B) haven't asked me to open early just for them and then not show up until late (happened a lot)
C) call me

I just ask for respect. Tell me when you are going to be late - it isn't that hard. And it really pisses me off when they don't.

[E Daycare]

I don't care if they are late as long as they
A) have told me ahead of time
B) haven't asked me to open early just for them and then not show up until late (happened a lot)
C) call me

I just ask for respect. Tell me when you are going to be late - it isn't that hard. And it really pisses me off when they don't.

SAME HERE!! I always say "communication is the key! Call/Text or whatever and let me know even if its 3am because Id like to know". This one dcf it hardly ever happened or Id get the "running late, be there in 15" and show up 3hrs later, not at all or are on my door step right that second. Sometimes I didnt even get a call.

This families last day is tomorrow.

[PitterPatter]

I was wondering how many other dcp always use the excuse "sleeping in" as a reason to why they are late.

Now I have a 21mo old myself. There is no sleeping in for us. Its up and at 'em at 7-7:30 EVERY day and breakfast at 8am sharp. Maybe its because I follow the SAME EXACT schedule every single day (its the same as my daycare schedule, or I should say my day care schedule was taken from my own) but the only time I get to sleep in is on Sundays where my dh gets up with our son (as dh sleeps in Saturdays). So when I get the "running late, we all slept in" excuse and its 10 or 11 oclock I just cant get over it. How is this possible? Do these kids really sleep in to the point where running late would be 10 or 11? I doubt it, its more of a "we just want to poke around" isnt it? I know for a fact that my one dck is up and ready to go most times when she would arrive at a normal time (between 7 and 8am) and rearing to go. If I needed to put her in the pnp for some time to maybe run upstairs real quick or put her down 'cause her mom said "oh she should be ready to go back to sleep" she would scream till my blood boiled.

My last instance was two weeks ago when the above mentioned dck was dropped off at 10 by the dcd. His excuse for not bringing her at 7:30 like agreed upon? "I was sleeping in". Now the case could be hes just taking his sweet time but I honestly think hes sleeps as hes mentioned to me before he sleeps right thru things and lets the mom get up. But HOW? This child screams like shes being stabbed. How does he ignore it?? How do you let a special needs child stay in a crib or pnp till 10am? (if this is true the case, which Im pretty sure it is...) My ex day care provider told me I shouldve called 123 Kids or whatever the number is to report neglect. This isnt the first instance with her. Hes used this excuse too but it was even later in the morning-11am to be exact. The mother says the same things too. Ive had this child long enough to know she does not entertain herself well but I guess other kids would? My son stays content in his crib for maybe 15 minutes after he wakes up. Then he takes a poop and I hear "mommy mommy". Then we get up, sing our good mornings and happy to see yous and get on with our day. Even on vacation.

Whats your take on the "We slept in excuse?" In my case I can actually picture the dcp sleeping leaving the dck to her own as these parents roll in looking like they did come out of bed. I get that they may have wanted to take their time in the morning and get a slow move on, thats fine. But for the part about "didnt get up till 10" I cant fathom and man am I jealous!!

LMAO

I have a DCM that stays up late and oversleeps a couple times a month. I stopped calling her as I simply don't have time. the 1st time I didn't call her she got snippy with me asking why I didn't call. It's not my place and I don't recall seeing wake up service offered in my handbook/contract.

[jojosmommy]

Yea I couldnt pay my son to sleep in. He is like a clock 7:01 he wakes no matter what the day previous had in store for him. I always laugh at that excuse too however I do not care if people come late. Free paid time off I figure. I have to be up, showered, etc anway thanks to my little one so I could care less when they drop off late. ::

[daycare]

the only kids that I know that sleep in are those kids that are going to bed at 10:30-12:00 at night.


My sister n law naps her daughter at 8pm. the niece 3.5 years old wakes up about 10pm and then does not go to bed until 2 in the morning sometimes later its nuts...the 3.5 year old wakes up at noon or so.............I have never said anything, but was looking at them, biting my tongue and just asked:" waht are you going to do when she starts school next year?"

I dont get some parents.....

I agree with whoever said that they are just fooling around in the morning. I can see it happen maybe once or twice, but I think that it Shows bad parenting if you ask me....

[MN Mom]

the only kids that I know that sleep in are those kids that are going to bed at 10:30-12:00 at night.


My sister n law naps her daughter at 8pm. the niece 3.5 years old wakes up about 10pm and then does not go to bed until 2 in the morning sometimes later its nuts...the 3.5 year old wakes up at noon or so.............I have never said anything, but was looking at them, biting my tongue and just asked:" waht are you going to do when she starts school next year?"

I dont get some parents.....

I agree with whoever said that they are just fooling around in the morning. I can see it happen maybe once or twice, but I think that it Shows bad parenting if you ask me....

I wouldn't necessarily say it shows bad parenting....

Everyones internal clock is different. Some (even children) are night owls and some are morning people. /shrug

My 5yo son is a night person. It's always been cool with me, however he starts K next fall. I've been trying to acclimate him into waking up at 6am for months now. Some days he's fine, others he's so crabby I send him back to bed. There are days that I tuck him in at 8pm and he is not up until 9:30am the next day...and then there are days he's not in bed till midnight (up in his room playing instead) and he will still sleep until 9:30. Today was an odd one, though. He didn't fall asleep until 12:30 am (again he was up in his room playing, looking at books) and decided to wake at the butt-crack of dawn and has been going strong ever since.

My girls are early to bed early to rise and always have been.

I am not a morning person either...I could sleep till 11pm if I had the chance! Guess he got my genes on the sleeping deal, .

[daycare]

I wouldn't necessarily say it shows bad parenting....

Everyones internal clock is different. Some (even children) are night owls and some are morning people. /shrug

My 5yo son is a night person. It's always been cool with me, however he starts K next fall. I've been trying to acclimate him into waking up at 6am for months now. Some days he's fine, others he's so crabby I send him back to bed. There are days that I tuck him in at 8pm and he is not up until 9:30am the next day...and then there are days he's not in bed till midnight (up in his room playing instead) and he will still sleep until 9:30. Today was an odd one, though. He didn't fall asleep until 12:30 am (again he was up in his room playing, looking at books) and decided to wake at the butt-crack of dawn and has been going strong ever since.

My girls are early to bed early to rise and always have been.

I am not a morning person either...I could sleep till 11pm if I had the chance! Guess he got my genes on the sleeping deal, .

I guess thats true...everyone does have different sleep patterns... I dont sleep much at all and either does my 3.5 year old...but my 15 year old son...that guy can sleep through anything and would be late every day of his life if I didnt wake him...

I gues what I meant by bad parenting is that it's an excuse and they are messing around instead of getting ready like they are supposed to. Does not set a good example for the kids...