Lazy parents...

[bright sparks]

The families I toilet train with know exactly where they stand with me, I am very upfront and my policy is given to them ahead of time in writing so there are no excuses for not knowing how it will go down at my house. They get one warning, which isn't in writing because I don't give them permission to be lazy and use a diaper one time, but if someone has a human moment, then I'll give them that because I'm not an ass and I can hold my hands up too and say sometimes I make bad choices. At that point I confront them face to face and make it clear it won't happen again otherwise I will not toilet train the child at all! I've had one family try it on and that was it, no more and mom took 2 weeks vacation to get them trained before they came back to care. She wasn't happy with me, but I think it's because she didn't like that she was made to feel small in her role, but then she should have taken it from someone who has trained over 30 kids and respect my rules, or flat out tell me before we start that you aren't happy with something and we could have had a conversation about it. It's not a competition, just how I manage to run my daycare successfully.

[mattsmom]

The families I toilet train with know exactly where they stand with me, I am very upfront and my policy is given to them ahead of time in writing so there are no excuses for not knowing how it will go down at my house. They get one warning, which isn't in writing because I don't give them permission to be lazy and use a diaper one time, but if someone has a human moment, then I'll give them that because I'm not an ass and I can hold my hands up too and say sometimes I make bad choices. At that point I confront them face to face and make it clear it won't happen again otherwise I will not toilet train the child at all! I've had one family try it on and that was it, no more and mom took 2 weeks vacation to get them trained before they came back to care. She wasn't happy with me, but I think it's because she didn't like that she was made to feel small in her role, but then she should have taken it from someone who has trained over 30 kids and respect my rules, or flat out tell me before we start that you aren't happy with something and we could have had a conversation about it. It's not a competition, just how I manage to run my daycare successfully.

I know! I was just talking to a friend who does daycare as well and she asked why I don't have something in my contract about it. I think I have everything but that, lol.

I'm going to be revising my contract soon, so I will definitely be adding something about potty training. I think my problem is that I hate confrontation with the parents and avoid it if I can. This has just gotten so bad that I am really resenting them for piling everything on me, plus making it harder than it needs to be.