I recently had two interviews where my OWN kids went wild. well.....my oldest did.

I always explain to them that they can come where I am interviewing and interact politely if they wish to but that they don't have to. I explain that we are trying to make a good impression so they need to be on their best behaviour.

Well.....my oldest who is 7 and should know better and is usually great in all other circumstances almost seemed to go out of his way on the last couple of interviews to misbehave.

He was standing up on the rocking horse with his feet, building towers of blocks and then collapsing it near the daycare parents and their young one, he was attacking his younger sister and bothering her deliberately even though she was minding her own business and not listening when I asked him to please stop or to stop the behaviour.

I felt like a deer in the headlights because my son was determined to misbehave and I could just see the gears turning in the parents' brains thinking that my own children were out of control so how could I possibly take care of theirs. I even caught some exchanged looks.

Once your own kids act up you cannot even make an excuse...it is basically a given that the interview is sunk