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[Cat Herder]

Attention Daycare Provider as your final bonus, your return from vacation will be accompanied by such golden oldies as:

"I hate your face!!!"

"Shut up!!"

"I want pop tarts!"

"How much do I owe you?"

And

"Do you mind if I pick up late?"


Wait!!! There's More!!!

As an extra special reward for the last year of faithful service you will also be given the opportunity to discuss the illness and attendance policy ad nauseum!!

Congratulations on your awesome achievements and be sure to tip your waiter (it is his birthday after-all.)

[Blackcat31]

Originally Posted by Catherder

Attention Daycare Provider as your final bonus, your return from vacation will be accompanied by such golden oldies as:

"I hate your face!!!"

"Shut up!!"

"I want pop tarts!"

"How much do I owe you?"

And

"Do you mind if I pick up late?"


Wait!!! There's More!!!

As an extra special reward for the last year of faithful service you will also be given the opportunity to discuss the illness and attendance policy ad nauseum!!

Congratulations on your awesome achievements and be sure to tip your waiter (it is his birthday after-all.)

Hope you had a great New Year's!

...and got most, if not all of your CDA stuff taken care of....

[Cat Herder]

Originally Posted by Blackcat31

Hope you had a great New Year's!

...and got most, if not all of your CDA stuff taken care of....

I had a Great New Year!! Thanks Hope you did, too.

I even registered for the QRIS here..... You'd be proud.

Making the transition from a "Child Care Provider" to a "Provider of Early Child Care and Education" has been a struggle... but it is coming along pretty well, now.

I just have to survive the re-training week from the DCK's (and parents) return from backup providers.....

It seems undercutting and offering exceptions to every rule imaginable is becoming an advertising strategy of newer providers here. Poptarts as a substitute for lunch if a 2 year old prefers it...really?

[Blackcat31]

Originally Posted by Catherder

I just have to survive the re-training week from the DCK's (and parents) return from backup providers.....

It seems undercutting and offering exceptions to every rule imaginable is becoming an advertising strategy of newer providers here. Poptarts as a substitute for lunch if a 2 year old prefers it...really?

I hear ya about the re-training!!

As of the new year, I am no longer serving breakfast. So this morning a family I have had for several years now (lives about 3 blocks away) pulls in the driveway. I can see them on the surveillance camera. They sit there without getting out for almost 20 minutes. I am like maybe finishing up breakfast . So dad and dcg comes in and I say, adjusting to the new breakfast rule and finishing in the car? Dad says "no, she was watching a movie and I had to let her finish it!"

[Ariana]

Or how about "my daughter went to so many Christmas parties she's now so overtired she's having tons of accidents"

[Cat Herder]

BC, I have two that do the movies in the car thing... Still wondering how many screaming tantrum fits parents have to endure to realize that just talking to them (instead of toys, food, movies etc that they have to take away) makes for a MUCH better morning routine.

The seeds they sow now WILL continue into the teen years. I LOVE my travel time talks with my teens.

Ariana, I had the reverse.... Mine are back in diapers WITH their very first diaper rashes....

Ahhh...vacation.....

[laundrymom]

I hear you guys!!! I have one describing in DETAIL pig butchering. Joy!

[Cat Herder]

Originally Posted by laundrymom

I hear you guys!!! I have one describing in DETAIL pig butchering. Joy!

OK, you win....

You will have lot's of explaining to do to the other parents very soon...

Sorry to laugh...but it is a bit funny.

[laundrymom]

Lol I just told him not to include any blood or guts parts. Lol. Of course I'm fully expecting a call from my vegan family tonight. Lol.

[Meyou]

Hahahahahaha! I'm laughing so hard...with you...always with you.

I had one show up with a dehumidifier in hand because DCG had a little cough, one didn't know he was suppose to be here until I called with a diaper reminder and one who spent 15 minutes telling me about how his truck shopping has been going.

[Cat Herder]

Originally Posted by Meyou

Hahahahahaha! I'm laughing so hard...with you...always with you.

I had one show up with a dehumidifier in hand because DCG had a little cough, one didn't know he was suppose to be here until I called with a diaper reminder and one who spent 15 minutes telling me about how his truck shopping has been going.

"...has a Little cough"...... Funny how that sends chills down your spine at the beginning of a work week.

[pfund2233]

Priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cat Herder]

Originally Posted by pfund2233

Priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks!!!

I did mention I have 3, yes, 3 parents with birthdays today.....

Retraining and art projects, by the seat of my pants, on my first day back, oh yeah.....

Tomorrow is going to be a breeze, though.... I can feel it!!!

[CheekyChick]

LOL!!! That is hilarious!!!

[PitterPatter]

Originally Posted by Catherder

Attention Daycare Provider as your final bonus, your return from vacation will be accompanied by such golden oldies as:

"I hate your face!!!"

"Shut up!!"

"I want pop tarts!"

"How much do I owe you?"

And

"Do you mind if I pick up late?"


Wait!!! There's More!!!

As an extra special reward for the last year of faithful service you will also be given the opportunity to discuss the illness and attendance policy ad nauseum!!

Congratulations on your awesome achievements and be sure to tip your waiter (it is his birthday after-all.)

That's great!!

[C'est la vie.]

AWESOME. LOL. Too funny. Luckily I have a great group right now and have had NONE of these today.

[Hunni Bee]

They're behavior has actually been pretty great, I've had one time-out in two days.

But I've also had:

- tons of fevers, stomach aches/diarrhea/gas, hunger (??) and over-tired-ness

- cases of no coat, no hat, no socks, no undergarments in 18 degree weather

- showing up in dirty outfits from the day before

- parents storming in during naptime ripping their child off the cot and shouting that a "fungus" the child had on his body (under his clothes) somehow came from us


Which confirms the fact that some of the poor kiddos are parenting themselves.