Forum: Daycare providers' experiences with parents

I posted on Friday about my issue with one set of parents and their failure to follow drop off guidelines for half days (no nap and lunch eaten). I...

I have a 19 month old girl starting next week and her mom brought her for a couple hours of transition this afternoon. During the time she was here...

38 years I have raised my surrogate children but I think I'm starting to lose my mind. Is it just old age or are parents becoming more and more...

Mom drops her son off this morning and he has a cookie in his hand. My son sees his cookie, and like a zombie, is totally attracted to it. I'm like,...

If you are a daycare provider and do not have children do you feel that parents 'judge' you for it how do you deal with this?

Just to be clear up front...I know that the kids have EVERY right to be here, and if I was Mom I would want to stay home too... Dad (instead of...

One of my parents have been clients for six years. Mom has always been odd but nice. She can not follow the flow of a conversation (she looks off...

So since we are always discussing our 'bad' experiences with families I wanted to share an awesome one. I have a daycare family who has a little...

Okay so my turn to vent. Its kind of bittersweet as I am to nice to my daycare parents and then they walk all over me..... I had a dcb dropped off...

Hi Ladies! Just curious to see how others deal with this! My hours of operation are between 7:30am and 5:30pm, but of course parents have different...

After seeing some of the parent horror stories floating around here I feel so appreciative of the parents I do have. All but one set of parents are...

Okay, so on Friday I posted about my worst day yet since opening the daycare. The little one in my care that is on a biting frenzy has not slowed...

Just thought that this is cute and I wanted to share. I needed tomorrow afternoon off for a trip to Toronto to visit my family. My usual...