Tattling/telling on each other

[daycarewhisperer]

One thing too. As serendipity and myself have staff assistants... the truth is that having a child who does what previous poster described ... three years of dealing with it and driving the adult crazy... would be very expensive to administer and would cause the helper to leave.

I couldn't afford to do that kind of education for a three year old. It would cost me too much in staff time and it would most likely cause my assistant to move on. I have to vet out stuff like this that is a huge draw to the adult time because I'm actually paying someone for it. When my worker is here I don't want to devote our cash resources to something we can manage for free by having the child go tell the youngest walker. The youngest walker doesn't receive salary.

I think we just make way too much of our role with kids and how important every little aspect of childhood is. We don't have to serve EVERYTHING about the child. We are not charged to teach them EVERYTHING. The beauty of self employment is that we get to pick and choose where we divest our time and resources. If we don't want to take on THIS aspect of childhood or "education" we can say no to it.