Psycho mom...just when I thought it was over....

[Monday 2 Friday Mama]

First of all, huge hugs to you - what an awful woman to have to deal with. Mean people s**k ! I would keep copies of all of the e-mails/ads/etc. - any correspondance that you had with this woman. Hopefully, this will all blow over and you won't have to waste any more energy on this drama, but it's always better to prepare for the worst. I checked Kijiji this A.M. (Fri. Sept. 14 - 11:15 A.M.) and it appears that the ad has been removed - so that's good. I would still report the incident to Kijiji support staff. Take a few minutes and compose a calm, cool and professional e-mail explaining what this woman posted about you, how it was completely false, and that you are concerned about the impact that this kind of slander could have on your business. The support staff have a number of options open to them ranging from sending her a written warning about posting antagonistic "hate ads" on Kijiji, to preventing her from posting any other ads. Lastly, if you notice that you're not getting the usual amount of response from your ads, try omitting your identifying information from them - just for a short time. When you're meeting with parents, or filling out paperwork - then you can use your Little Dreamers logo. On-line it may be better to go incognitio. Hope this blows over soon, and that karma bites her on the arse !

[Littledragon]

We are. We were on the fence before, but now that she's actually LYING about things, we're going to. He's calling his lawyer now. We've taken every screen shots of everything, and I've gone through all my texts and emails. Luckily, she was dumb enough to say everything over text.

[Littledragon]

I'm totally freaking out right now!!! And the worst part (or best part) is that my husband won't let me do anything about it.

[Cocoon]

Sorry to hear you are going thru this BS. I actually went on kijiji and found another ad. preety much writing in same language.

[Cocoon]

Hahaha she removed her ad I still can see the ad but when I click on it it says " the ad yu looking for is no longer Available ...."

Sue her I say. She deserved it.

[apples and bananas]

That absolutely sucks! I don't think anyone really takes those type of ads into consideration, but it's still stressful to deal with.

I had a client once that I could totally see going in this direction. She always questioned me, always talked about her "social worker friend" LOL I ended up terminating over lates, It was quick and simple and although she was upset there really wasn't anything wrong with what I did. I kept it as low conflict as I could.

This is why we, as providers, have to be dilligent at screening perspective clients.

I hope this is the end of issues from this one for you.

[Momof4]

Sorry you have to deal with this awful woman Littledragon. Seriously, what a vindictive bitch!

I'm glad the ad is gone and I'm really glad you have a supportive spouse who is ready to help you deal with this. Maybe a letter from a lawyer threatening a lawsuit if she doesn't cease and desist would do the trick.

[Littledragon]

woops!!! i just realized i said her name...didn't mean to!! sorry!!

[Littledragon]

Thanks Ladies. My husband ended up calling HER because when he tried to call her husband he didn't answer and then he texted my husband and said, stop calling me, your issue is with kim. That made my husband rather angry. I think her husband has a difficult time "taming" her. She's a wild one and doesn't know when to stop. So, my husband called her. I reported the ad and spoke to somoene at kijiji and she's been banned. My husband told her that she needed to stop acting like a child and that she needed to take the ad down. He told her that he was currently in contact with his lawyer and she would be hearing from him soon. So then she started running her mouth and all he said was good day and hung up lol so THEN she calls my husband back at his WORK and tells him that the next time he tries to talk to her it better be through his lawyer because she will take it as harrassment and laughed and said ok. So then she sent me an email saying the same thing. She always twists it around to make the other person look bad. It's really quite ingenius if you ask me. If she wasn't such a bad communicator, she could be an evil genius. But, unfortunately, she's dumb.

My husband's lawyer said we didn't have a lot to go on, the only thing he could use for defamating would be the social sevices thing, because everything else would be pretty hard to prove - for both sides. So we're just sending her a cease and desist letter. My husband doesn' think it's over, but I am hoping to God it is. I've decided to change the name of my daycare just in case. I know people don't take it seriously, but it really makes me nervous. So, if she posts more ads, it'll be of a daycare that doesn't exist.

[Momof4]

Oh, I'm having a problem with somebody like that lately. Not a client, another provider! But it's infuriating when you run across a person who can twist all the words and events so that they are ALWAYS right and everybody else is ALWAYS wrong. It's really pathetic and I feel your pain. Good luck! Be proud of yourself for standing up for yourself then move on and be the bigger person.