Argh... I Won’t Ever Make This Mistake Again!

[Unregistered]

Spnrsh

Why would you want a parent who is so unreliable about doing something so simple as to call you when you asked her to? HUGE red flag!!! You are going to be posting about this one alot. I ask my interviewing parents to complete a few things on a time line and those tasks and their adherance to them are my clues as to how well the family will work for me and my program. In this mom's case, she would have recieved a big fat "F" the minute she didn't call me as asked. I would have given the other parent the space immediatley. Good luck!

[MamaBear]

Update

Well I guess the red flags were right. The mom just confirmed yesterday that she would start this coming Monday and she called this morning & left a message that she would be here at 6am Monday morning!! I dont open till 7am!!! She knew this and its all over my website. SOOOO I had to call her and tell her it wouldnt work. She claims she didnt know! Weird since we totally had a conversation about my hours when she was touring.

After reading all of your advice and thinking it over, she was really showing signs of being a real flaky drama daycare mom. So I started feeling sick about having her come here. So this solved the problem to just tell her NO. I feel relieved now knowing she wont come after all.

For now on, I'm only taking people who do the paperwork, pay the deposit (which I have never done) and turn it all in asap. No more flakes for me. Thanks for all your advice.

p.s. To Unregistered: Why dont you log in with your name if you want to say something to me?

[Unregistered]

p.s. To Unregistered: Why dont you log in with your name if you want to say something to me?

Sorry, I didn't have time since I was responding while waiting for an appointment from a smartphone. But either way, I didn't say anything rude. I was simply asking you a question and then offering you some support as to re-thinking your decision.....why the hostility? Not ALL unregistered posters are rude and mean to be insulting.

FTR- I am a registered user/long time member who, as I stated above, didn't have time to log in so thanks for reassuring me that some of the unregistered posters are correcting in stating that there is a bit of a condescending attitude by some of the forum members on this site. The comments I made and the wishes for luck would have not changed in context with my member name attached so what difference would it have made if I had logged in?

[MamaBear]

Sorry, I didn't have time since I was responding while waiting for an appointment from a smartphone. But either way, I didn't say anything rude. I was simply asking you a question and then offering you some support as to re-thinking your decision.....why the hostility? Not ALL unregistered posters are rude and mean to be insulting.

FTR- I am a registered user/long time member who, as I stated above, didn't have time to log in so thanks for reassuring me that some of the unregistered posters are correcting in stating that there is a bit of a condescending attitude by some of the forum members on this site. The comments I made and the wishes for luck would have not changed in context with my member name attached so what difference would it have made if I had logged in?

Sorry if I read your post in the wrong context. USUALLY from my past experience on here, if someone is posting unregistered, they are usually saying something condescending or judgemental without having to say who they are. I read the "good luck" as sarcastic since the posting was a bit of a downer. If you are registered, you can post as yourself now...