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Great list! Parents dropping their sick kids off always gets me. They're just asking for every kid (and me) to catch what they've got.
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Babysitter sends her own kid to daycare.
My kids are older and we were fortunate to be able to afford to have someone come into our home, but this one really used to slay me.
She was the daughter of my mom's friend so we gave her a chance, because she really needed the money. The arrangement was that she would bring her 2 year old and watch our 4 small children in our home. She went through all the hoops and qualified for assistance with daycare. The state paid for x many hours a week. So she started taking her toddler to day care for half the day while caring for our kids at home. Only our 2 youngest were even at home the entire day!
I cannot imagine what the provider thought. We had used her previously, but never had occasion to ask. I can't imagine it didn't get under her skin to know her pay was being provided by the state for a mom who worked as a care provider, just as a private babysitter. We didn't keep her long, because she didn't really like to work as evidenced by apparently not wanting to look after her own son in a position which should have made that an ideal situation for her. My kids loved her little boy and he loved them. It was just the craziest thing.Comment
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She justified it by calling it "preschool" ( I think that is what the assistance actually paid for), but it so obviously wasn't the real reason and preschool is not generally 20 hours a week. It was because her son was still in diapers and younger than my kids so he needed more constant supervision. She couldn't just plop him in front of the TV and take a nap.
The provider she used is great. We used her when we only had one that needed full day care and she was very professional, but I don't know that I would call it a preschool. I know she did the best she could, but I can't imagine it's easy to provide a full preschool experience when you are completely on your own with 12 kids and several of them are infants and toddlers. I saw it more like daycare plus, rather than a facility wholly dedicated to preschool. We're probably kind of snobby as ours went to a Montessori preschool and we were lucky enough to be able to afford that, but when you send your kids to "preschool" for 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, and in diapers to boot, that's not about providing a preschool experience.
She could have easily used the funds to send him to a preschool-only facility with most of the resources dedicated to age appropriate preschool learning, but for the usual 2-3 hours a day, 2-3 days a week. She probably could have sent him the same Montessori preschool we sent our kids too and she had full flexibility to drive him back and forth, to and from, whatever facility she chose.
Anyway, it just didn't make sense to me and I think it fits with the many comments here regarding parents who just want to be rid of their kids as many hours a day as possible whether they are working that day or not.Comment
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I posted the link to the article on FB group I’m in. I was pretty much blasted and told the article was mom shaming and judgmental.
I think the article is spot on. I left the group. 💁🏻Comment
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Didn't they just shame and judge you for disagreeing?Originally posted by ADJKS View Post
Who needs them. :
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I hope you told them where they could shove it before you left.Originally posted by ADJKS View Post
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Sounds like maybe they were guilty of some themselves and saw nothing wrong with treating their child's provider like @rap. :confused:Originally posted by ADJKS View PostComment
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Everything falls under a new blanket term now called “mom shaming”. Anytime anyone accuses a parent of being a jerk we are mom shaming
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