What Do Parents NOT Know About You..

[thecrazyisout]

I am wondering what you think parents should know about you, but don't. Or those things you do for their children that they would never realize you do constantly for their child...

Mine is....I can't use all of the money they give me to invest fully into my business,I have a family to support. I had one family interviewing that said that if they used me they would expect their first month of tuition to go towards more outdoor play items....UMMMM I never invited them back for a second interview.

[thecrazyisout]

Also, I don't mean this to be a thread to complain...I really want it to be constructive and thoughtful if you could! I think you all have some of the best input, but some outside readers my think we are "crabby" and start posting that we are terrible providers blah blah blah...

gthanks

[juliebug]

at the more outdoor toys.

that when dcg goes to kinder i think i will cry more she is just so much apart of my family i'm not ready not to see her m-f everyday!

[Michelle]

that I give them baths and wash their clothes sometimes because I can't stand dirty stinky kids in my house. Not all the kids just some of them through the years.

[sharlan]

I can't think of anything. I try to be pretty open with my parents.

[Unregistered]

I am posting unregistered cause Im pretty sure I will hear all kinds of things about this!!

I am a closet smoker. My husband smokes too.

I DO NOT smoke when my DCK'S are here. I chew Nicorette gum. When I do light up it is outside, in my backyard so no one see's me and I dispose of my butts properly.

I also like to drink some wine on friday nights after all of the kids go home, to relax after a long week.

There I said it!

[Cat Herder]

Unfortunately not much.

Most know 4 generations of my family.

The only way I can keep a secret is by leaving the State.

[sharlan]

I am posting unregistered cause Im pretty sure I will hear all kinds of things about this!!

I am a closet smoker. My husband smokes too.

I DO NOT smoke when my DCK'S are here. I chew Nicorette gum. When I do light up it is outside, in my backyard so no one see's me and I dispose of my butts properly.

I also like to drink some wine on friday nights after all of the kids go home, to relax after a long week.

There I said it!

While I don't smoke or drink, what you do in your own home when the children aren't present, is no one else's business. I am sure that the parents can smell the cigarette smoke, though. I can smell it on my sister.

[DBug]

My dc parents start out not knowing which kids are actually mine -- the dc kids all call me "mommy", more so than my own kids ::. It took one dcd about a year to figure it out (I guess he didn't want to ask!). I tell them the ages of my kids during the interview, but I think alot of parents are pretty focused and they tend not to be thinking about the fact that I may actually have my own family . And most of them don't know my boys' (SA) or my husband's name.

But on an ongoing basis ... most of them don't know how I spend my weekends, and none of them know how good I am at faking a smile & a not-completely-exhausted-out-of-my-brain mood at pick-up time (my family sees through the clever acting on my part though ).

Most parents also probably don't know how much I appreciate the fact that they pay on time, and don't complain about full-rate stat holidays and absent days -- even though there are lots of lower priced daycares in town that don't charge for those things. They also probably don't know how much I appreciated the fact that all of them (okay, except for one) seemed genuinely concerned for my health and well-being when I took a sick day once, 2 years ago. I still remember how completely okay they all were with it when I had to call them all at 6 am to tell them I'd be closed.

Really, there's lots about me that the parents don't know, and that's okay because I'd rather my life not be an open book to them. I prefer to keep it all business (or at least, as much as possible!).

[Unregistered]

While I don't smoke or drink, what you do in your own home when the children aren't present, is no one else's business. I am sure that the parents can smell the cigarette smoke, though. I can smell it on my sister.

Actually in CA you can't smoke in your home even when the DCK's aren't there. Second hand smoke gets into everything and stays there for a very long time. But it sounds like the closet smokers does so outside which is fine. And they can definitely smell it on your clothes...I can smell it on my husband after taking just a few puffs off a friend's cig and that's after a few hours, there's just no hiding smoking cigarettes.

[rjskids]

Even though I mop my floors every morning I still can't seem to stay on top of the constant traffic thru my house...so my parents don't know that I take their children's socks off during the day cause I am so embarrassed if their socks are dirty at the end of the day!

They also don't know and will NEVER know how silly I can get when we play music! I love to dance and do things to make the kids laugh...the parents will never see that My husband doesn't even see it cause that side of me ONLY comes out when he's gone. My daughter and I have had lots of crazy dancing nights together ::

[sahm1225]

That although we do dance class/music time every day, I have absolutely no rhythm and hope the kids don't try and imitate what I teach them LOL!

That the reason I do daily sheets it's more for me - I have a bad memory and if I didn't write it down, I would never remember who ate what and who pooped!

That sometimes i sit down and start to color in the coloring books, because it just looks like fun... and then the kids will follow

That I'm a pretty good cook, but I couldn't fry an egg to save my life!

That if I won the lottery today, I would keep the daycare open, AFTER taking a month off vacation to take all the daycare kids on a special jet to disney world.

That I LOVE my DCPs. I have been truly blessed and the not-so-lovable ones have been weeded out. That I appreciate that I rarely have to ask for payment and that they don't blink an eye when I announce that I will be closed 2 weeks a year for vacation and act geniunely excited when I tell them what we have planned.

[sahm1225]

Oh, and that I am always hot.. so in the winter months, my house gets a high of 70 degrees at the most. The kids are all used to it and don't mind it at all, in fact when I raise it to OVER 70, they all start to get sweaty

[wdmmom]

Although I live in a expensive home and drive an expensive car, I'm still a cheap-o!

I save money anywhere and everywhere I can. I shop at Walmart, Aldi and Sam's for groceries. We butcher our own hogs once a year, I buy beef from a farmer because it's way cheaper than buying it in a store, I buy in bulk often, I don't buy name brand clothes, I don't shop at the mall. The items that are "new" to the daycare are seldomly new. I'm an insomniac, I'm OCD and I enjoy socially drinking during the weekends.

[Blackcat31]

I live in a town that I was born and raised in so I know waaaaay more about my daycare families than I care to know but most of them have no idea what I know.

I am one of those 'hear all but NEVER repeat anything' kind of gals so....

I knew a couple who came to my childcare many years back and I knew the mother was having an affair (she didn't have a clue that I knew) and I never let on that I knew anything. About 3 years later, she ended up leaving the husband and I knew that was coming too, but when things aren't my business.....I stay out of it.

Most times, I'd give anything to know nothing.