Silliest Thing That a DCF Has Said to You?

[sammie]

I know....crazy. DCD asked if he should get rid of his bangs. I reassured him that wasn't needed.

[GirlMomma]

His bangs?! 😂

[GirlMomma]

fivestarday this happened last week:

DCK spiked a fever, average temp was 101.5 so I text DCD with the pic of the thermometer. He says “do you think he’s just running warm or do I need to come get him?”
I just said, “He’s running warm from the fever so yes, you need to come get him.” DCK was out the rest of the week with a virus.

🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️

[PB&J]

What even?!? This is a new one. Hot hair?

[sammie]

Last week I sent a child home with a fever. DCD called that night to see if it was maybe the child's bangs that may have caused the high temp. No DCD, I have been taking your child's temp multiple times a day for the past 2 years. It's not his bangs.

[GirlMomma]

Truthfully, it was the “babysitter” part that made me cringe.

[GirlMomma]

Alwaysgreener yes!

[Alwaysgreener]

Wait don't you have your youngest home with you too?

[fivestarday]

please do. This stuff is so funny!

[GirlMomma]

DCP walks in, realizes their child is the only child today and says “Oh Snowflake, look!! You get your own personal babysitter again today! Miss GirlMomma is going to cuddle you and spoil you all day!!!”

It really pissed me off. I had no plans of cuddling/spoiling this child. I’m not her mother or grandmother.

So I let little Snowflake sleep as late as she wanted. All while I deep cleaned the daycare’s play room. I re-organized the toys, rotated the toys, and pitched a few toys. 😁

[Cat Herder]

"Well, I think you are just trying to make her sound like a horrible kid."

Yep, that's me. I get paid the big bucks for making kids sound horrible. It is a virtual reality show; "Cat Herders Horrible Kids".

* I informed DCM that her kid had outgrown my playground equipment (age, weight issue, literally bowing/pulling apart my step 2 stuff with age-appropriate rough play) and I needed her to find other care before the beginning of summer, June (when there is no planned curriculum to break up playground time).

I had also warned her the previous school year that she was entering her last school year..... preschool is from August to the end of May.

[TNord]

A couple come to mind…

One of my daycare kiddos (a girl) who has been struggling with potty training for a year and a half now (3.5 yrs old) bc of inconsistent parents—has been wearing underwear for a few months now. She has been consistently pooping her pants every day or or every other day despite me taking her to the bathroom every 30-60 min. She helps herself to the bathroom for pees no problem. It is not that she doesn’t make it in time, she goes and hides somewhere and poops in her pants and then doesn’t tell anyone until it’s caked on to her skin or someone smells it and tells on her. The other day I asked her to go try on the potty after lunch. Usually a few minutes later she’ll call me to wipe but it didn’t happen so I went to check on her and she’s standing fully clothed next to the toilet, yep you guessed it…pooping her pants. When I talked to her parents about it they said she’s going through a “weird phase” where she wants extra help in the bathroom or she won’t go. Meaning she can do everything by herself but refuses to. The funny is I try to help her but she refuses my help. Is it an “accident” if she’s purposely sh*tting her pants? Lol

The second one I thought of is a DCM who told me she’s sick of having to wear masks (DCFS requires them here, even in home daycares) bc she said her daughter was having a hard enough time with cavities. Huh?! Pretty sure it’s the Starbucks cake pops for breakfast 2-3 times a week. 😆 She went to the dentist recently and had 5 cavities and a cracked tooth. Those damn masks! /s 😄

[Pestle]

DCM let me know that DCG doesn't like to eat breakfast in the morning and they would like to avoid the battle, so would I please prepare a full breakfast and serve it to their child at snacktime.

My second-worst client in the five years I've been open arrived for drop off on a morning that they had been notified I would be closed. When I turned them away, they texted me saying that they needed a refund because they forgot I was closed, and I was so confused that I sent it to them before I realized what was going on.

[Rockgirl]

Dcb had been on vacation for most of the week. A couple of days after returning to daycare, he spiked a fever. I texted dcm to let her know. Her response: “I wonder if he’s just tired from vacation.” 😒

[PB&J]

We gave parents one vacation week tuition-free each year. For all other vacation time, they had to pay. One year, a long term mom (multiple kids, attended for YEARS) asked if she could redeem her vacation week for the last week of her enrollment before moving to a new daycare. She was switching due to huge changes we were making and was leaving on very good terms, so we agreed. That last Friday, as I was telling her goodbye and good luck, she said “No, we still have another week here!” I told her that I must have misunderstood, but we will have room so it will work out and that I guess I’ll be getting that last fee after all. She said “No, that’s my tuition-free week!”
when I said “DCM, you know that tuition-free vacation week means you take your kid OUT on vacation. Same rule for the last eight years that you’ve been here…” the lightbulb went on! She at least realized what she did. Then said, “now I have to figure something out for next week!” I offered to keep the child, but I think she was too embarrassed!