Hi Everyone...

Anyone have any experience with terminating a child after almost a year of care?

This was the first family that I took on. They have always paid a day late, drop offs and pickups are different every day. Late drop offs happen all the time without any notice, just a "sorry" at the door. So they're not the best family to work with.

I've been having a lot of trouble with their little one lately. Always been a challenging one, but lately I've been seeing increased poor behaviour. It was ok when I started as I could offer one on one care, but now that I'm growing and taking on more children it seems that this child is a negative effect on the group and with no improvement. And after a year the child should know boundaries in the daycare.

I'm really afraid that I will start to see a negative effect on the new children I have coming in.

I have discussed solutions and concerns with the mom several times and she never has any direction. She just says "I know it's a challenge, I don't know what to do about it"

She drops them off without breakfast (sometimes after 9am) and often with little sleep. So I'm really not feeling supported by the mother.

I'm starting to feel that I'm not qualified to address the behavioural concerns that I'm seeing and without any improvement I can't see how this is the best situation for the little one or me.

The most frustrating is that I have a waiting list a mile long with plenty of families that would fit much better into my daycare environment.

I'm at my wits end with this family!