Quote Originally Posted by mimi View Post
Serendipity, I am glad you have the ability to tell what providers think but are not saying. I stand behind what I have said and will not try to sway you from your negative stance. All the best to you in the New Year.
Thanks for the insinuation but I am NOT clairvoyant. I am simply stating what I "see" other providers posting about on other forums. There are several and a few of them actually have threads more or less laughing at the fakeness of some of the providers boasting about their gifts.

So I am sorry but I cannot read other providers minds....only their words.

You keep saying you stand behind what you said but haven't elaborated. So deflect and detour by calling me negative. How is asking you to explain your words being negative?

Oh, and yeah we all like to be appreciated and even though I feel it is boasting or bragging and sometimes even completely untrue...I still do not understand at all how it can be informative for others.

My response about some of the gifts being BS was to the poster of this thread.
.....You know the thread completely started because the provider didn't get any gifts or thank you's from her daycare parents.......then only a couple posts in someone actually suggested making parents feel guilted into gift giving by posting thank you's publically

...which to me is shaming the parents who didn't gift someone they already pay for services.

I mean if getting a cash bonus or gift at Christmas time is something a provider HAS to have to feel appreciated, then why not just add it into your contract each year. Tell each parent what to get you and how much to spend. That would be just as shallow and childish as complaining/venting about not getting a gift or bragging/boasting about the gifts you did get.

Get real. You can pretend that it isn't about the money or the presents all you want. This whole concept about providers even expecting gifts or cash bonuses is rediculously shallow and negative IMHO. But that's ok, you can call me negative all you want. I didn't start a thread bragging or complaining about gifts I got or didn't get from clients.

FWIW~ I didn't take this thread to a whole new level....I posted my opinion..... someone got their panties in a bunch because of it (because it hit home or who knows why) and now here we are.