Originally Posted by Just Saying:
Crystal, you owe people on the post an "I AM SORRY". No, I don't. I did not say anything I did not mean.
I am a provider that DOES NOT have to have ANY income, I do daycare because I love little children! BUT, I refuse to EVER let a parent disrespect me! This is what is wrong with our world today! But most providers are not as lucky as me and MUST rely on their income. And a lot of parents KNOW this and will USE their provider and suck any life out of them, and this is SO SAD!!
I can only pray that one day you wake up and find that 4 or 5 of your daycare parents STAB you in the back and you loose income. I believe this would put you and your family in a hardship. The OP may only be loosing 1 child, but that 1 child's income could be food for her family. Nice. You would PRAY for someone to be stabbed in the back by 4 or 5 parents? You must be a Christian. 
And to your remark about providers covering there own assXX and the parent is always wrong, that was a VERY RUDE comment on your part. If parents read and FOLLOWED providers handbooks and gave the provider RESPECT, then NO provider would ever have to post for advise. It was not a rude comment, it was an honest comment. I see it on this forum every single day. Many providers here, while they do care about their children, talk trash about their families all the time here. I am sick and tired of it. I can say if these providers would spend as much time on their business as they do bashing parents on this forum, they may not have so much drama with their work.
Parents that use home day cares need to WAKE up and realize that providers are the SECOND most important person in their child"s LIFE. I am so lucky to have parents that TRUST & RESPECT me, but if one of my children cam in and told me that they have a new daycare and the parent NEVER had the respect to talk to me, I would be waiting for them at pick up and look them straight in the eyes and tell them what the child told me, then i would tell them i am happy for them and I would have the child's things ready to hand to them.
My reason for ending daycare on the spot.....You disrespected me!! I see no disrespect on the parent's part here....they interviewed a new provider because they were not happy with their current providers rate increase. I say AGAIN, they have not bailed and burned the provider by not paying and providing a two week notice. They are still holding up their end of the bargain....the provider is the one who wanted to change the contract AGAIN to fit her needs in case the parents leave before thanksgiving when she would not be getting paid for that week anyway....THAT is disrepectful. WHY do the parents not deserve any respect and ONLY the provider does????
Would I miss the child....YOU BET!! But I would have more respect for myself and i would not want the child to have to endure any more sadness ONE more day!!
Again Crystal, your posts are kinda rude towards providers, but who knows you may have this to happen to you one day!! Good Luck!! And if this ever does happen to me, instead of trying to turn the table on the parents, I would take a good, long, hard look at my business practices, and adjust them accordingly.
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