Why do some parents have to be so

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-12-2007
Why do some parents have to be so
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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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iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2006
Sun, 02-11-2007 - 9:36pm
Sure they can and they also are very eager to learn it.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-03-2006
Sun, 02-11-2007 - 9:40pm

Then why was your post in response to mine which specifically said "BABY"? You even included a quote of my post in yours.

Try again.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-03-2006
Sun, 02-11-2007 - 9:42pm
Oh they're eager to learn but that doesn't mean they understand right from wrong and even remember what happened earlier in the day.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-03-2006
Sun, 02-11-2007 - 9:44pm

WHAT proecess. Please detail the process you would use in this specific case. It's really not a hard question if there really is a process.

And I'm still scratching my head on how one parents a behavior.

I keep asking the same question and you keep avoiding an answer. Just list what you'd do.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2006
Sun, 02-11-2007 - 9:50pm
Um, becasue i had a opinion.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2006
Sun, 02-11-2007 - 9:54pm

Im not avoiding anything..lol. I thought it was common sense, how a parent should parent behavior a child.

Do yourself a favor and research it.

You will see it really is simplistic.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2006
Sun, 02-11-2007 - 9:56pm
That is why you have to TEACH them! .................................................


Edited 2/11/2007 10:11 pm ET by xenozany
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2006
Sun, 02-11-2007 - 10:09pm

It does click with a small child sonner or later and i would never think it is the providers problem to deal with the responsibility of my child biting b/c it happens in her care. It would by all means be a group effort.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-03-2006
Sun, 02-11-2007 - 10:10pm

About how to handle babies since that's what you quoted out of my post, right?

If your opinion wasn't about babies, why did you quote my post that specifically said "baby"?

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-2006
Sun, 02-11-2007 - 10:12pm
Well according to what you are saying why were you unable to train your children to sleep without being nursed or co sleeping?

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