I terminated a family because the child cried incessantly for more than a month. We just couldn't take it any more -not me, not the other daycare children. It was unfair to all of us, and to the crier.

I am considering terminating another family because the little guy drives me nuts. He's five, and is here every other day for a full day. He tells me he's bored constantly, no matter what we're doing. He regularly tells me he hates coming to my house. He tells me my toys suck. I even went so far as to go out and buy him more toy cars, because he complained that I didn't have cool ones like his "old babysitter".

If we are at the park, he whines to go home. If we're doing a craft, he tells me it sucks. He hates every kind of food I give him. He butts into private conversations I am having with my kids, despite my asking him to stop doing so. Like, if I am talking to dd, he will come over and yell at her, "Yeeeeah! You need to listen to your mom and stop being bad all the time". My daughter is 13.

Seriously...I am feeling pretty done with him. It doesn't help matters that his mother pays late every week. She's the one who my last thread is about.