I also have a small home childcare service and mothers will absolutely lose it when you tell them you don't have the space to store their child's carseat. Even if the same 1 person picks up/drops off the children day after day. One woman told me she demanded to leave her son's carseat because if she was in a car accident then she would have to replace the whole carseat. Smh she broufh her son in every morning with a seat full of yogurt, cookies, snacks it was just a mess. And several times she left the carseat with baby inside at the entrance and darted out because the baby had a terrible messy diaper, so bad it leaked all over the seat cover. When I text her about it she said oh sorry about that, but can you wash the carseat cover before I pick him up. I was like WHAT?!?!? I'm not your private Nanny, I have other kids to care for. I've instituted a policy about infant car seats as well, and if parents need to leave them for an alternate pick up then tgey have to place them on my back patio.

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