Increasingly nervous parents

[Momof4]

I'm feeling your pain. I have a family a lot like what you described here, Mom is the AP one, Dad is the laid back one and rolls his eyes a bit, but at least I've made the gentle suggestions to him and he's run it by the Mom, so I don't have to say it to her, hehe. Works great by the way, try it out!

My policy is that a child has to be home 48 hours after any vaccinations, so Fridays must be the days they are done. I explain to the parents that they want their child home with them in case of any adverse reactions and I will not administer over the counter drugs. So my dcparents understand that up front and it takes all the liability and responsibility off me. I don't ever want to deal with a febrile seizure at daycare!

My AP child has been here for a year and a half and still cries daily - at age 2.5! He is so manipulative and such a victim. He can't do anything! It works on his Mom, but not on me. But I have had talks with her about the kind of person she is raising and imagining him as a teenager and an adult in business using manipulation to control the people around him. That got her attention.