Just Ooooh!!!

[PitterPatter]

Ever get so mad 1st thing in the morning? I am used to rude parents but today's DCM wins the prize for rude!

As usual I have breakfast cooking when 1 DCM brings her kid. The kids are just about to sit at the table for breakfast. Sausage, pancakes, toast, sliced bananas and milk. I tell the newly arrived DCK breakfast is on the table hang up your coat so we can all sit down. (I pre mold my sausage patties and freeze them so I can take out just as many as I need each morn.) 2 patties each are served on plates ready. DCM walks over and says "Mmm what are we having good today" and before I can reply she swipes a sausage patty and pops the whole thing in her mouth!!

I say WHOA what are u doing? She said they looked so good I had to have 1. and giggles as shes chewing away! I explain I only made enough for each child to have 2!! She shrugged her shoulders and said so what, just give my kid 1 then, see ya later. And out the door she went! Ooooh I am soo mad!! I get the kids seated and of course her DCK notices he only has 1 patty. NOT FAIR! he cries! I explain Mommy took his patty. Hell I am not sugar coating for her!! So now I have an upset kid wailing already and anger at the DCM! I want to tell her off so bad! It was only a sausage BUT now I have to get a new one thaw and fry it or 1 child goes without the same servings. I shouldn't have to do this Grrr. Breakfast is going to be pushed back from now on so Mz. Grubby snatcher keeps her paws off the food! OK done venting.

[Meyou]

Oh wow. My own family wouldn't act that way in my home.

[nannyde]

I would have asked the other kidds to donate one bite of their sausage so little johnny could have as close to what they have. I would have just taken off a half inch square bite from the other ones and given them to little johnny OR just taken all of them and cut them up real quick and evenly distributed them.

No need to make a new one.

I can't believe the Mom would do that.

Entitled instant gratification

[MarinaVanessa]

I would have handed the phone to DCB and had him call his mom. He's upset and mom did it. I would have told him the truth too so call mom and cry to her, at least so she could see that it's not as easy as "that's what you get" and expecting his reaction to be "okay great, thanks!".

I would deffinetely have a talk to DCM about this at pick-up or next time I saw her. I would calmly explain "I know that although it may not be a big deal for you but for me I have to prepare enough of anything that I do a day in advance and that includes food. I pre mold my sausage patties, not buy them that way, in preperation for the next day's meal and when you ate DCB's sausage he was EXTREMELY upset and in tears that he only had 1 sausage and everyone else had 2. He himself said it and hit it right on the head, it was not fair. I had to, as quickly as possible, prepare another sausage for him which delayed everyone's breakfast by {amount of time} which caused a chain reaction the rest of the day.

Not only was it unfair for him, the other children and for me it was inappropriate and unsettling for me that you would to that and then be so nonchalant about it. The DC food is exactly that, DC food. It is for the children, not for the parents."

[texascare]

I think I would have slapped her hand!!!::

[dEHmom]

i would've done what nannyde suggested too. i cut everything up to appropriate bite sizes to avoid children taking off more than they can chew.
so I would've just divided it evenly.


and I would also advise dcm that she owes you X for the sausage she ate, as it is not a daycare writeoff (even if it is).

[morgan24]

All I can say is Wow, that's gutsy. I would of called her and held the phone out to dcb so she could hear the crying and said thanks alot and hung up.

[DCMom]

My mouth is hanging open...that is one of rudest things I have heard in a long time.

I personally would have cut up the remaining patties and divided evenly, it's not dck's fault that his mother is incredibly rude

[AnythingsPossible]

With any luck, your little guy will remember Mommy took his sausage and make a comment about it to her this evening! I have kids who would do that and it would put mom in her place!
The parent's that some of you guys have to put up with amaze me!

[dEHmom]

i agree with anythingspossible....so far i've gotten really lucky with my parents, and i hope that i never have any parents like the ones we hear about so often on here.

my parents all want to be with their kids, and never once fussed about days they paid for that they weren't here, or picked up early. *knocking on wood!!!!!*

my dcm who just had a baby less than 2 weeks ago, and hasn't attended daycare since start of april, popped by for my bday yesterday and brought me homemade cookies! and dcg made me a beautiful scribbled card, that i will never ever throw away (she is 1.5 yo) and she even colored the inside underside of the card (the part that no one sees). and she decorated the cookie box too.

[PitterPatter]

Thought I would pop back in while the kids are sitting here painting. I am calmer now but still a lil upset at the nerve and then for her to blow it off made it worse.

I was going to take all the sausages back and cut them up so the kids wouldn't know but 1 of the kids got upset and covered her plate. So I just made a new 1. I usually cut up the food once seated so I can show the kids how to do it and they can try for themselves. Pancakes are easier for them but the sausage is a little more firm. I think I will just serve the sausage cut up from now on. That way if it ever happens again she will only get a tiny piece instead of a whole patty.

Smack her fingers! :: I love that idea!!

I came really close to calling her and giving DCK the phone but I knew she was driving so I decided to wait until pick up tonight. He calmed down and was fine once I showed him I was making a new patty. She will get an ear full tonight tho.

[PitterPatter]

i agree with anythingspossible....so far i've gotten really lucky with my parents, and i hope that i never have any parents like the ones we hear about so often on here.

my parents all want to be with their kids, and never once fussed about days they paid for that they weren't here, or picked up early. *knocking on wood!!!!!*

my dcm who just had a baby less than 2 weeks ago, and hasn't attended daycare since start of april, popped by for my bday yesterday and brought me homemade cookies! and dcg made me a beautiful scribbled card, that i will never ever throw away (she is 1.5 yo) and she even colored the inside underside of the card (the part that no one sees). and she decorated the cookie box too.

Aww that is so sweet!! U are blessed!

I still have all of the coloring pages the kids ever gave me. I actually have the very 1st thing ever given to me 5 years ago STILL hanging on my fridge! Just a simple notebook paper with writing in colored markers that says " i love (heart) you and you ar the besttest" and she drew stick figures of us holding hands. It was made by a little girl in 2nd grade at the time. Warms the heart I tell ya!

[dEHmom]

Aww that is so sweet!! U are blessed!

I still have all of the coloring pages the kids ever gave me. I actually have the very 1st thing ever given to me 5 years ago STILL hanging on my fridge! Just a simple notebook paper with writing in colored markers that says " i love (heart) you and you ar the besttest" and she drew stick figures of us holding hands. It was made by a little girl in 2nd grade at the time. Warms the heart I tell ya!

the cookie box will double as a storage box for all the daycare gifts i've been given.

i'm new to daycare only opened my doors a year ago today actually! whoo aniversary!!!! i've done daycare/babysitting for many many years, but opened my home up a year ago. and i've had great families each time. Although i know it will happen that i'll have an awful family.
closest to awful i've had is the crazy pregnant woman, who brought her kid with no socks in winter for an interview, used me once, emails me saying she needs care on these days and then i never hear from her again. saw her at my daughters dance recital, and she didn't even look at me. don't really care, honestly, because she was just a casual drop in type. so i filled my spots anyways. .

[PitterPatter]

the cookie box will double as a storage box for all the daycare gifts i've been given.

i'm new to daycare only opened my doors a year ago today actually! whoo aniversary!!!! i've done daycare/babysitting for many many years, but opened my home up a year ago. and i've had great families each time. Although i know it will happen that i'll have an awful family.
closest to awful i've had is the crazy pregnant woman, who brought her kid with no socks in winter for an interview, used me once, emails me saying she needs care on these days and then i never hear from her again. saw her at my daughters dance recital, and she didn't even look at me. don't really care, honestly, because she was just a casual drop in type. so i filled my spots anyways. .

Happy Anniversary!!
Kids done painting gotta run for clean up. Hope u have a great day today!

[SandeeAR]

I think I would have looked at her and said, "since I guess I'm feeding you now, does that mean I need to change your Diaper before you leave?" ::