Top 10 Ways to Get On My Nerves. (9 complaints too long)

[AnaKhouri]

So these people have children, yet they have no idea how children act?

Kids cry, they behave badly, they make messes and have accidents. Childhood is messy and loud. Even my angelic son has his fussy days.

I commend you for having the patience to deal with that many rugrats at once, it's unfair you have to out up with entitlement whore parents too.

[BuggedMei]

Maybe my daycare is special, TelephoneAngel, but I make a decent wage. I'm also in the states, and our daycare is on a college campus so that also can explain a lot. There has been talk of budget cuts for us since we are dependent on the campus for funding which will leave us poorly resourced. Its a little scary. This should not be something that is cut away thoughtlessly. Hot lunch has already been cut. I'll keep my rambling to another time :3

As all my coworkers ask me as I cheerily chase my toddlers around the playground, "How can you keep that up every day?" I respond with "They are paying me $10 an hour to be two again."

I truly love my job, just not the parents. Or BossLady.

[Sightings Reporter]

I stay at home with my kids now (thankfully). Below are my thoughts on these parents and my exceptions for myself.

1 - Untied Shoes

The Boy is the only one with tie shoes, I double knot, they come undone. Someday he will learn, until then, I kiss boo-boos.

2 - Runny Noses

I just have three kids and I miss runny noses all the time. The older two have learned to wipe their noses on their shirts but are moving toward tissues.

3 - Coats on floor

I am happy if they drop them on the floor in front of the closest!

4 - Dirty faces/clothes.

White clothes? On a toddler? What?

7 - Dirty Bathrooms

Are a fact of life with young kids.

8 - Clutter

There is life w/o clutter?

9 - Crying Children

There is life with out crying?

10 - Outdated/faded artwork and decorations

We have had the same two coloring pages hanging on the 'fridge since October.

All in all, if parents complain, they can do one of two things, switch providers or stay home. (I know that isn't always an option, but if they aren't going to let go enough let the provider do her job, they should just stay home!!)

I worked in a day care center for 3 months and I have high respect for anyone who works at one, it is not easy work.

[earl colby pottinger]

Do my job

For the first two or three years of my last computer store job where I worked as a tech I was allowed to have customers come behind the counter watch me work on the machines and deal with other customers at the counter at the same time.

Not one of the people who did insist that they needed their machine right away and stayed in the back with me ever complained later about me being too slow or being lazy.

For some strange reason there seem to be a lot of people out there who think they have the only hard job out there until they are forced to try and keep up with something else.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Hell, when I was 4, my mom would always MAKE me go play with whoever had chicken pox at the time in hopes that I'd catch it and be done with it.

Hopefully this did not include playing Ookie Mouth.

As for me, I was ten when I got the poultry plague. No such thing as a Chicken Pox Party for me.

[Micer]

-De-Lurk!-

Oof, gotta love those parents. I used to work at a daycare, til it went out of business. Parents didn't quite get that whole -pay your fees for child to come here and we can pay our own bills- idea, (using it as a chance to go back to school to teach kindergarten/art) though avoided the toddler room like the plague.

Didn't get very far from those lunatics, room was right next to my 3-4's pre-k class. But you'd have parents who'd send their little girls in these frilly dresses and their hair done up, and proceed to flip out at the end of the day when they found their little darlings anything but pristine. They didn't quite understand that little Jada and Nicole spent most of the afternoon picking off the rein-stones, tearing up the fabric (god forbid there was a loose string that we didn't trim off before nap time), getting mulch in their hair (with tight braids or corn rows... x_x) or decided that they want to use the moment to get into the water fountain and soak themselves completely.

Make that ten of them, and one teacher for that room, always a chance for disaster. They don't quite get that, but than again, in some cases these kids spend more waking time with us at the daycare than with their own folks.

Just gotta grit your teeth and as my former boss adored to repeat daily, 'Play the game.' Hang in there chicka!

[Pixi_kitty]

4 - Dirty faces/clothes.

You've sent your 2yr old to daycare with a white shirt and spaghetti for lunch. Try as I might, and I'll break out the art smocks to help me, your kid will be coming home with a stain. I'm sorry.

I used to work at a summer camp, which encouraged hiking and other normal messy behaviors. The biggest parent complaint was that the children came home with muddy and dirty clothes in their suitcases. I never understood it; you sent your kids to go play outside for a week and then get mad because they did?

Sometimes parents are just weird.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Hopefully this did not include playing Ookie Mouth.

As for me, I was ten when I got the poultry plague. No such thing as a Chicken Pox Party for me.

I had just turned 11 when I caught the pox . . . and this was 30 years ago - way before Chicken Pox Parties became vogue.

My grandmother was keeping the son of one of Mom's gf's for the weekend a few weeks before I got sick and he had just been exposed to it elsewhere, so that was how I caught it.

But then my grandma swore to her dying day that the chicken pox is the reason I developed acne. . . .

[Mishi]

you know what else i have never understood?

At least in the uk, looking after the lederly and looking after small children is an entry-level job (although workers can get extra qualifications and therefore more pay), but in general they are paid minimum pay.

However, to me, looking after someone else should be a wellpaid job, with contented, not stressed, workers, meaning enough workers for the number of people to be looked after, the equipment they need, etc, so that it can be done properly.

It's the same here and I completely agree with you! Also, because I chose to have kids, I choose to toilet-train them and teach them some manners BEFORE sending them to Kindy/Pre-School. I don't think the staff get paid well enough to deal with that sort of stuff.

To be fair to the carers, I told them about my 3 year-old's tendency to tell off budding bullies, and that she will hit back if someone picks on her. Now they're all asking when we'll send our other daughter!

[arminius58]

Really, I mean really they complained that a two year old gets dirty and cries. I mean really, I think I just had a stroke from the stupid of that comment. The only way I can even think thats not going to happen is by drugging them and then sticking them in a bubble.

[sweetj82]

some of the complaints i heard while working in day care...


every month we sent out a newsletter. part of the news letter was recipes that kids could help with they were on the healthy side but sometimes had some bad stuff in them.

-one mom told us not to five recipes b/c her daughter than wants to cook and she doesnt have time for that.

-one mother said everyone should be 100% healthy. she didnt like when i pointed out the healthy opitions part of it




girls in pretty dresses

-we should do nothing with the girls all day just sit and read books
(who sends a kid to daycare with a pretty dress)


every month we put up the birthdays.
- howcome last month the birthdays were on a turkey(november) and this month on trees(december) when i told her we switch everymonth
i got well thats just plain dumb

-we should not be allowed to wear sneakers and we should wear dresses

-one day our children greeted the parents with a song we were singing all day.
all but one parent loved it.
-she said that was just a waste of my time now i have to hear that stupid song all night. we should ask parents if they mind if the kids sing

[Magpie]

girls in pretty dresses

-we should do nothing with the girls all day just sit and read books
(who sends a kid to daycare with a pretty dress)


-we should not be allowed to wear sneakers and we should wear dresses

Were these from the same people? Old-fashioned, or religious beliefs?

[XCashier]

I used to work at a summer camp, which encouraged hiking and other normal messy behaviors. The biggest parent complaint was that the children came home with muddy and dirty clothes in their suitcases. I never understood it; you sent your kids to go play outside for a week and then get mad because they did?

I expect my son to get dirty! That's what kids do. Playtime and exercise is good for them. That's one reason I buy him secondhand clothes; if he wears holes in the knees (which he often does, thus we also buy lots of iron-on knee patches!) or gets the shirt messy, no big deal.

girls in pretty dresses

-we should do nothing with the girls all day just sit and read books
(who sends a kid to daycare with a pretty dress)

Poor girls, they must be bored out of their minds. Newsflash, Mom and Dad: girls need exercise too. They may not be as rough-and-tumble as boys, but they still like to run around and use the slides and monkey bars, and it's healthy for them. Save the pretty dresses for church, send them to school in jeans, sneakers and T-shirts.

[Tama]

Isn't that illegal or something, chicken pox parties?

Then again I remember being 5 and not really feeling bad aside from the little bumps.

MAYBE a slight favor.

[Kristev]

Ridiculous. Kids are going to play, and they're going to get dirty. That's what they do.

So don't send your daughters to day-care in a party dress. Messy kids aren't the end of the world, but stupid parents might be.