Thanks for the replies!
I'm a long time lurker here since I discovered this place five years ago and feel I've learned do much from everyone's trials and tribulations and the stories of keeping a healthy backbone.
I work in a very idealistic centre right now where the managers, though meaning well, will let the parents walk all over us if we didn't pipe up. My closest coworker is completely delusional when it comes to the realities of actually managing families and enforcing expectations. Just the other day I sent out a letter to families about the requirement to send their child with sunscreen already applied as we start our day outside and I got some push back from her about wanting to put a line in about "only if they can manage it." I'm sure I'll hear about it from my manager but it's nice to know I'm not alone n approaching this career with realism and not pure idealism
