Originally Posted by Unregistered:
Hello All! Been taking care of kiddos for many years. In March I took on a new baby. A sweet easy going little girl. Her parents are the most interesting yet. They are older first time parents (mom 42, dad 43) Baby is here 5 full days a week. She stays until 4:45 daily when mom picks up because dad will be done working and drive right by anytime before and never picks her up. (They live down the street). I am talking hours early he gets home, I have been outside many times with kiddos and he just goes on by. She comes on their days off. Dad is on vacation this week and guess what? Baby is here. Every day. I know from talking to mom that they tried to conceive for years. They are blessed to have her in my opinion. But..... they seem to act like integrating baby into their lives is too much for them. It pisses me off. Why have a child if you don't want to spend time with it? What was their point? Just to see if they could or not? Anybody else have these parents?
I do understand your frustration, and I used to feel the same!
...but over the years I've changed my point of view and now I actually like it better that the children are always with me, every day from opening to close.
IMHO most of today's parents do more harm than good to their children's challenging behavior there for less time with parents means my work to correct behavior issues doesn't go out the window.
I think we all agree that children with a "healthy" consistent routine are happier, easier to handle, and make our job much more fun, so that's why I rather the kids in my group stay with me even if parents are home.
PS my apology for poor grammar
