Originally Posted by mac60:
Do you have familes/parents, that are simply loud, at arrival and at pick up. I do, and it is driving me nuts. Why can't they walk into my home early in the morning and talk in a soft voice. Why can't they stop their child from whining the second they come in the door. At pick up, while all the other children are sleeping/or trying to, why can't they walk in quietly, do they have to yell HELLO?, we are all in the same room here, no need to be loud. Just quickly pack your kids up and go. This drive me nuts. What happened to that word RESPECT, they see there are other children sleeping.
ok, just needed to vent a moment here.
I don't have parents like this now, but when I had my center, I had a mom who was a therapist. She was the worst! She would pick up at 1pm, when I had about 40 kids sleeping. (Classrooms were seperated by half walls, so you could here her in the whole place). She would behave like she was at a party. Talking loud, laughing . . . she would put the kid down and let him run around the' daycare and chase him, both of them laughing. I would drop hints, like " It's ok Jane, go back to sleep, we're sorry we woke you up" I would say to her child "SHHHH your friends are sleeping". Then I flat out told mom that we needed to keep the center quiet at naptime. Her response was, well, he's not sleeping! So I started to meet her at the front door with him, with his stuff packed and ready. I would block the enterence to the center so that she couldnt get in. She wasn't happy! About a week after this started, she gave us notice that they were leaving. She said she felt like we were trying to hide something from her by not letting her into the center. I got PISSED! I was so ready for her to be gone anyway. I told her the reason we didn't let her into the center was because she was too loud and disturbed the children. I told her that I had tried to say it nicely, but she didn't want to listen. She rolled her eyes at me and said that we were doing the kids an injustice by keeping things scilent at nap time. she was a therapist after all!!!! I just thanked her for sharing her son with us and showed her to the door. Therapist and phycologist parents are the worst!!!!