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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So basically you expect a dcp to be able to do something the child's parents cant do. That is a very interesting thought you have there.
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They most certainly did. If those parents put that baby in a swing to sleep then that is how that baby has learned to fall asleep. I dont care where she is that is how she is used to falling asleep.
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The OP told you from very early on that the baby's parents couldn't get the baby to sleep without the swing. So really where do you base your theory? Is the baby so stressed and exhausted at home that they just plop her in that swing and she passes out?
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Well it isnt something she has to figure out anymore. I believe she said she isnt keeping or isnt going to be keeping this child anymore.
<<< I can see her asking them to bring the swing in with the baby to see if it works. Really, you have to, at least, do that before you declare "it's the swing". >>>
Didnt she say they didnt bring it?
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If that is true then why do the parents use it at home?
LOL. I see you don't actually have an answer. That's what I figured.
No, you're the one claiming you parent the behaviors of a 1 year old. You tell me how it's done. I gave you a specific behavior issue. Biting in day care when the child does not bite at home. How would you parent this behavior with your common sense?
Role playing work's great, expecially at bath time.
We bite apples and oragnges not ppl. Bite a apple...ect ect ect...
If i had my child in daycare, I would expect to know that my child bit or was bit and i would expect to do everything possible to end the problem.
I would not think it is the providers "problem" It is mine, first and foremost than it is our's.
What post?
You were clearly addressing my post about a baby. Hence, you were saying we should control how our babies behave in day care. What's to clarify? It's quite obvious if you read the post I linked for you early.
if my two year old bites your two year old at daycare, do you really think that when i pick my two year old up and start talking to them about not biting your child at daycare they are going to have a clue what i am talking about - he is not even going to remember that it happened - young children live in the here and now
Jennie
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