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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But we're not talking about older kids here.
Jennie
I think we jumped when we started talking about the concept of helping reinforce at daycare. However, I never said the parent should be the one to discipline immediately, it should be the provider.
I believe that you start discussing right and wrong pretty young (12 - 14 months). Before that I be hard press to call anything a discipline issue and certainly not sleep patterns.
"I think it was an irresponsible thing that the parents didn't provide what their baby needed to sleep".
Rather than being irresposnible, I think it was implausible. I think there is some major spin going on in an attempt to make the parents look bad. I find it pretty implausible that the parents would go through all the hassle of having to take their baby out of a dc situation and set something else up just to save themselves 45$ (or whatever) on a awing. I supppose it's possible. But it's really unlikely. What would be more of a pain in the neck to them? Arranging a new dc setup or bringing in a swin? And yet we're supposed to believe that they would rather go through the hassle of finding a new arrangement than just bring in a swing? That's what I'm having trouble buying.
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