Why do some parents have to be so
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Why do some parents have to be so
| Tue, 02-06-2007 - 1:51pm |
ridiculously difficult. I am a SAHM that decided this year I would watch a couple of children to make some extra money. I have lurked on this board a lot and notice quite a few WOHM here. I just stopped watching this one baby that I just couldn't figure out the parents. The baby was a mess all the time. She was sick, had multiple respiratory problems, and cried all the time. Every time I called the parents to pick the baby up due to wheezing, or fever they seemed annoyed with me. Which I thought was odd. I have a strict policy that if the children have green noses they must go home. Also if the children have a fever they must go home and not return for 24 hours after the fever has broken or on antibiotics. Well I could never figure out why the baby cried so much until I was talking to the mother. Apparently they allow this baby to sit in a swing in the evenings and on weekends to get her to sleep. So the only time this baby naps during the day on the weekends is in a swing. Well that is not going to happen here. The baby is almost 20 lbs and I am not purchasing a swing for this child to sleep in. So according to the mother this child goes home around 5:30 or 6pm and sleeps from 6:30 until 6:30 the next day. No wonder...she won't nap here. So I told the mother that if I couldn't get the baby to nap during the day then I would no longer be keeping this baby. Well I guess she didn't believe me and I gave these parents a 1 week notice. I can't imagine having my baby that I haven't seen all day sleep a half hour after I got home and sleep until the next morning. I have tried for 4 months to get this baby on a schedule. When the other 2 children I have take their nap this child screams and screams. Just weird to me that a parent would want this for their child.


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You sat and rocked "her"? According to post #169 on Feb 7, that baby was a boy: "Today the little boy I have has a little cold."
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How can that possibly be true?? Again, from Feb 7, post #169, you said, "Today the little boy I have has a little cold."
Now, how could you not have any children all week, if you had a boy (on the 7th) with a cold that needed rocking? Of course, by Friday, he was a girl (Post #298), but you were still claiming to have had children in your care this week. so who knows.
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I think at this point, most of us would settle for it being your job to remember if they are a girl or a boy and whether or not you actually watched them this week...
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I dunno. Why would someone claim that 'TODAY" (Wednesday, Feb 7 post #169) they had rocked a little boy who had a very bad cold, on THURSDAY call that child "her" (post #289) and then claim on FRIDAY she hadn't had ANY children all week (post #304)? Starting to sound like nothing more than drama and fabrications to me....
Editted to match days of the week to their correct dates.
Edited 2/10/2007 3:58 am ET by cdmamnyell
Actually..don't you think it would be a little creepy if a dcp professed to love a child as much as the parents?
Well actually..that is your problem to solve.
Are you kidding?
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