Thank you all for your replies to my first post yesterday, concerning the manipulative 6 year old child I have taken on. I adore her 2 year old brother, but the girl is quite difficult.
Your advice was unanimous: I need to terminate the child from my care.
Now the question is: How do I go about approaching the parents about this? Ideally I don't want to lose the boy, as he is darling and gets along nicely with my two other toddlers.
The family has sitter-hopped quite a bit recently, and the mother had a list of reasons why -one sitter was mean, one sitter didn't change diapers frequently enough, one sitter was unreliable. She spoke very unkindly of them. I now suspect that it was the sitters that terminated the family and not the other way around. I fear ending up on the list of childcare providers this woman speaks badly about - and in a small town, that can be career ruining. I need to handle this very carefully.
Your advice was unanimous: I need to terminate the child from my care.
Now the question is: How do I go about approaching the parents about this? Ideally I don't want to lose the boy, as he is darling and gets along nicely with my two other toddlers.
The family has sitter-hopped quite a bit recently, and the mother had a list of reasons why -one sitter was mean, one sitter didn't change diapers frequently enough, one sitter was unreliable. She spoke very unkindly of them. I now suspect that it was the sitters that terminated the family and not the other way around. I fear ending up on the list of childcare providers this woman speaks badly about - and in a small town, that can be career ruining. I need to handle this very carefully.
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