Feeling used and not appreciated..

[littlefish]

I had this happening all the time, over the years I learned no to take it personally, clients come and go and they love to always leave hurting us, in my years in the business with many clients only one or two behave perfectly until the end the rest always find a way to make you feel you didn't perform a good job underneath all that is their own insecurities and jealousy, they need us to take care of their little ones but deeply they don't like it, specially if you are doing everything right for me always is their issues not mine, I do 100% and at the end I tell myself what a great job I have done, I had a client who behaved so low with me toward the ending, I stood calmly until the child's last day on her last day mom came to me with a guilt on her eyes, with tears in her eyes, with presents that showed me, she realized how she mistreated me over the year and I was nice to her and she and the child left see they're the ones who feel bad and if they don't realized it at the moment some day life will teach them to appreciate others and they will remembered oh I remembered I mistreated somebody in the past either they fixed themselves or carry baggages in their hearts. Rose1 keep your head high you're doing a wonderful job with the children don't forget, don't let others put you down. happy day!

[Rose1]

Thank you littlefish,I appreaciate your words very much!!
It feels good to hear it from somebody like yourself who went through the similar stuff I
have and to get encouragement from people who do the same line of work like I do.
I know everything is very much like that,and I am not hurt at all now,over the years of doing this job and dealing with all kinds of people I learnt a lot,but still does not feel good when you get surprises like this one
I had many people from different backgrounds going through my home and had my doors open for them and their children,like you said only a few true families stayed in our lives and on our contact list.
Most of the parents just think paying for day care is a rip off meant for most of the parents before their children start with regular school
Nobody thinks that their children are in day care for at least 8 hours every day and how much service they require during those hours,not to mention,cost of the food,damaging somebodies place and toys which have to be replaced on regular basis and are not cheap at all,and so on....
I tried once to explain to some people who started to complain about cost of the day care with simple example: you go to a restaurant,hair stylist,do your nails,do facial or anything in that context,and sometimes you are not even happy with the results,but you have to pay big time to a person who provided her two hours for you and plus tax and plus tip- does not matter if you liked it or not you need to pay..
Nobody is complaining about paying any of those because those services make people happy,but when we need to work hard to make their children happy,guide and teach them, keep them safe and entairtained during the whole and every day nobody appreaciates it very much...
i would not like to take those facts personally,but when you try to do your best,you do get hurt when you see unappreaciation around you