I try not to, but sometimes I can’t help it. Like PP said, it depends who the family is and what kind of personal relationship I’ve formed with them or how intimidated I am by them 😏

A few years ago I had a set of brothers who were terrible all the time. One day when DCM dropped off, the older one, probably 4 yrs old, was throwing a screaming fit towards the mom. She just kept saying “I know you’re upset” and tried giving him whatever he wanted to get him to stop. My kids were still sleeping and I was tired of his screaming. I picked him up out of his chair, told him he was not to talk to his mom like that and put him in the time out chair. When I turned back around, mom was gone. That was their last day in my care. When I termed, DCM told me I made her feel like a terrible mother and she cried the whole way to work. I so badly wanted to say “I guess the truth hurts!”

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