Needing to vent about selfish daycare parents.

[Skysue]

I'm a caregiver too and I think Playfelt is just trying to tell the parents point of view?
My own daughter come out with a very weird rash last year that no one could diagnos, all the kids were exposed and it came down to the parents keeping there kids in my care due to the fact that they were already exposed. She never had any other symptoms outside of the rash so i was ok with it. With that said if she became extremley ill then I would have closed and I'm sure my parents would have had to comply.

It all depends on the situation.

Don't you think?

WRONG! A service that is no longer being provided is a service that ceases to exist permanently. Service disruptions are a fact of life in this world. Human beings are not robots nor are they slaves. If you wish to consider YOURSELF a slave, then so be it, but DON'T expect everyone else to act in the same manner that you do nor treat their own children as Second Class Citizens in their own home by their own mothers. And reducing the quality of service to the healthy children because the "sickies" are in need of cuddling -which SHOULD BE COMING FROM THEIR MOM - is a poor service. I am a daycare, not a hospital. If my child is sick and in need of medical care and rest, I close my daycare a day. If she is not charging, and it's in her contract that this may happen from time to time and the parents signed the contract, it is legal and binding and they agreed to the terms of service. Too many parents just sign the contract without reading it then play dumb. Too many parents are lax about the care of their children and read furnace service contracts in greater detail then they do the terms of care for their most precious possessions.

I am completely shocked at your lack of responsibility to the health of the children in general. When a daycare provider's child is sick enough that she needs to close down to care for her own child cause God knows, we didn't sign up for this job to neglect our own children, she needs to do just that. These parents drop their kids off sick and go to work. When the PARENTS are sick, they drop their kids off so THEY can have alone time to rest and relax - we don't get that luxury. We have to take care of ourselves and our families to have a healthy environment for other people's children to come into because THAT'S what the parents expect. If the daycare home is constantly overrun with viruses and the daycare kids are always getting sick and the parents are using up all of their vacation to care for their sick kids who can't go to daycare, then they leave. I'm sure that closing for a day to care for your own child is the better route to STOP the constant proliferation of viruses. A sick house is both physically healthy and emotionally unhealthy. A daycare provider is NOT service slave and these parents have employers who CONTRACT with them to provide a service and when they're unable to provide that service due to illness and family, you don't see their employers bullying them to come to work - they have backup employees. Well, ALL parents should have backup care. I'm sure a D/C provider in their neighbourhood wouldn't mind being over numbers for one day.

When a caregiver does this to another caregiver, my blood boils. Never side with a parent who is bullying another caregiver.