Hey everyone,
I just wanted to start off saying that this forum has been great in helping me start my home daycare. All the advise given here has been amazing. I've never posted here before, I just really need to vent right now!
So I've been providing care for a daycare kid for about a week, (we were still on a trial basis). I wanted to start off with only one child just to see how my kids reacted to having to share their mommy with other kids, and they were doing quiet well until today. Mommy dropped off the child here this morning and my three year old son who had just woken up and was in a grumpy mood decides to come downstairs and say to the mommy "I don't want him coming here, everyday"
My son is a very friendly kid, and he's been very helpful with the dck sharing all his toys and including him in activities that he was doing and dck was very happy here, he'd jump out of mommy's arms to come to me. I apologized to mommy and told her that my son was not in a good mood this morning. And told my son that thats not a nice thing to say and reminded him that he likes playing with dck.
But mommy came back after 20 mins crying and told me that she did not like what my son had said and wanted to take dck home and she may not continue care.
Me and my family are going through a very rough financial time right now, I had quit my job to start a home daycare because I had a bad experience with my son's daycare provider (long story short he was being bullied and physically abused by her 22 year old son). I spent a lot of money on toys and daycare equipment and now I feel like if I am not able to find another kid to fill this kid's spot soon, I may have to start work again. Uggghhhh so frustrating!