Decode this mystery for me. I'm stumped.

[ceo]

If you can get the lady who Lefty likes to give you her home phone #...

you mean Dwayne?

 

[Smurfy]

I went to pick Dev up from daycare yesterday, and he had a knot on his head. They said he fell over and hit his head on the table leg while he was sitting up. I wasn't exactly mad but wasn't exactly please because he just learned to sit on his own, and they could have had him sit on the big padded play mat instead of the hardwood floor by a table leg. Alas, though, I let it go. I also think they should have called me when it happened.

Then, there is the weird thing that he was not in the clothes that I sent him in. He was in girl's clothing with hearts and kittens and stuff. I asked, "what happened here?" They said, "he pooped all over the outfit you sent him in." I say, "okay, why didn't you send you just put on the spare outfit I sent for him." They said there wasn't one in the bag. I looked in the bag and his spare outfit is missing.

This is where it gets weirder. I get home and grab the outfit that he was supposed to have pooped all over to treat the stains and to wash it. I pull it out of the bag and it is as clean as a whistle! No poop anywhere! What the heck????? They didn't wash it. I sniffed it. It smelled like my baby, not like it had been laundered.

Then, this morning I heard a lady say, "I hate to be the one to tell her" as I was leaving. I called the daycare this morning and asked, "how is Devin doing? Anything I should know about?" They seemed perplexed why I was calling, and said "everything is fine. He's doing great."

Hmmmm...am I paranoid?

those sound like unrelated incidents but perhaps they let another child wear Devin's speare outfit and it hasn't yet been returned by the other parent?

 

[txbondsman]

you mean Dwayne?

HR knows how I feel about that, but it's not the thread.

I actually have a funny story about that, but I'll tell it later. Has to do with my knew baseball team, and karma.....

 

[myway]

Yeah, shoot, just get a mom like me who loves babies and wants to be a hero to watch the little dude.

If I lived by you and you didn't mind me taking him to the gym everyday I would watch him. I babies. Of course, that would cut into my internet time though.

For real, you might look into a nanny. It's a great option for a lot of people.

There aren't ANY good daycare places around where I live. Since I'm gonna be home, I am going to be watching an 8 month old girl for another police couple. I wonder what this adventure will bring......

 

[silverstar1025]

I hope you can find a better place HR.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Yeah, I have no idea. The outfit that they found for him to wear was some stained, ugly aqua blue thing with kitties and mice and hearts all over it. He looked like a little girl. I'm going to talk to the owner about it and the accident today. They are supposed to fill out an accident report when something happens. No accident report was filled out.

Another weird thing recently was that they called me at work and said, "Heather, is this breast milk in his bottles?" I told them that he gets formula at daycare and breastmilk at home. Apparently, they had accidentally fed one of his bottles to another little girl and were freaking out thinking they had fed her my breastmilk.

Get a new daycare place if possible. Sounds like this place has no business taking care of other people's kids.

 

[Delinquent]

But you put them in the back seat of 1990 yellow mustang?

Have I ever said that I use the mustang for a family car? Sure I have taken our daughter up to the corner store once and the grocery store which I could walk to it's so close once but that's it.

 

[txbondsman]

Okay, I returned from there and got the skinny on what happened yesterday. The girl who was watching him when he fell was there. She is one of the ones I consider a good one. I've dropped in on her OFTEN and she is always being very good with the kids. She explained where he was when he fell and how he fell, etc. I asked that she always fill out an accident report if he gets hurt and that she ALWAYS call me, because I'm only a block away.

On the weird outfit thing, they said that they could not find my spare outfit that I always pack. I looked in all the kids' baskets and it somehow had gotten misplaced in another basket. That outfit is tagless, so I had not put his name in it. They said that they changed his outfit into the only thing that they had on hand and washed the other one. They explained that it was the fragrance free laundry detergent which is why it didn't smell like laundry. They said they didn't want to put it in the bag being that dirty.

I'm not so terribly upset about them "borrowing" Devin's wipes b/c they are only $2 a box, anyway.

I'm still looking at another daycare and have been put on their waiting list for the <1 year old program. It's more expensive, but they do more activities with the kids.

uhuhhhh. sounds good. Lets hope that that isn't the standard answer to placate disgrundled parents. NOW, you set the ground rules to be followed. Wipies, meh, so what, prolly all evens out. The clothes, you write, stamp, clothes pin his name, he is to NEVER be given anyone elses clothes, period. Put 2 changes in if you have to, but your clothes are yours, tell them that the clothes are given to him by g-parents and close friends and you don't want to have to make an excuse why you no longer have them if they are lost. NOT FOR DISCUSSION And for heavens sake, don't EVER put him in girls clothes, hell, let him go buck ass nekkid before you put freakin Hello Kitty type shit on him! Btw, they did that shit 1 time in Zeb's daycare, he had a wonderful caycare, I was blessed. But I let them know that was not acceptable, it never happened again. With me standing there in boots, blue jeans, with a wad of chewing tobacco in my mouth, I think they got my drift. His day care, had t-shirts that they put on them at feeding and as they got bigger at lunch, they would get them dirty as hell, but after lunch they'd take them off and launder them, the kids clothes never got messed up. Pretty neat idea I thought.

You have any more problems out of them, you let me talk to them. You can tell them I'm his dad, your dad, brother, I don't care, but they'll either get with the program or not.

 

[BNG]

Hmmmm...am I paranoid?

NOPE! You should always be cautious, curious, and suspicious. Personally I'd confront them and tell them the truth is more likely to retain you as a patron.

 

[nimbus]

at least they weren't red panties

 

[the_alcatraz]

at least they weren't red panties

^.^ Agreed. That would've been bad.

 

[Smurfy]

TXBadass means business!

 

[Pat_McCrotch]

Okay, I returned from there and got the skinny on what happened yesterday. The girl who was watching him when he fell was there. She is one of the ones I consider a good one. I've dropped in on her OFTEN and she is always being very good with the kids. She explained where he was when he fell and how he fell, etc. I asked that she always fill out an accident report if he gets hurt and that she ALWAYS call me, because I'm only a block away.

On the weird outfit thing, they said that they could not find my spare outfit that I always pack. I looked in all the kids' baskets and it somehow had gotten misplaced in another basket. That outfit is tagless, so I had not put his name in it. They said that they changed his outfit into the only thing that they had on hand and washed the other one. They explained that it was the fragrance free laundry detergent which is why it didn't smell like laundry. They said they didn't want to put it in the bag being that dirty.

I'm not so terribly upset about them "borrowing" Devin's wipes b/c they are only $2 a box, anyway.

I'm still looking at another daycare and have been put on their waiting list for the <1 year old program. It's more expensive, but they do more activities with the kids.

Do you fell better about eerything?

 

[Pat_McCrotch]

Nah, it's Kentucky...they're all single mom's there.

single mom/sister

 

[Pat_McCrotch]

Here is a good babysitter.

I wonder if my fiance' would mind if we hired her as a nanny?

 

[heatherrae]

uhuhhhh. sounds good. Lets hope that that isn't the standard answer to placate disgrundled parents. NOW, you set the ground rules to be followed. Wipies, meh, so what, prolly all evens out. The clothes, you write, stamp, clothes pin his name, he is to NEVER be given anyone elses clothes, period. Put 2 changes in if you have to, but your clothes are yours, tell them that the clothes are given to him by g-parents and close friends and you don't want to have to make an excuse why you no longer have them if they are lost. NOT FOR DISCUSSION And for heavens sake, don't EVER put him in girls clothes, hell, let him go buck ass nekkid before you put freakin Hello Kitty type shit on him! Btw, they did that shit 1 time in Zeb's daycare, he had a wonderful caycare, I was blessed. But I let them know that was not acceptable, it never happened again. With me standing there in boots, blue jeans, with a wad of chewing tobacco in my mouth, I think they got my drift. His day care, had t-shirts that they put on them at feeding and as they got bigger at lunch, they would get them dirty as hell, but after lunch they'd take them off and launder them, the kids clothes never got messed up. Pretty neat idea I thought.

You have any more problems out of them, you let me talk to them. You can tell them I'm his dad, your dad, brother, I don't care, but they'll either get with the program or not.

yeah, I hear ya. Can I tell everyone that you are his daddy or just daycare? Will you pay child support? That would be cool...lol.

 

[heatherrae]

Do you fell better about eerything?

Pretty much. I think they had a bad day and didn't do things just right, but it happens to us all.

 

[txbondsman]

yeah, I hear ya. Can I tell everyone that you are his daddy or just daycare? Will you pay child support? That would be cool...lol.

incentives?

I'm used to 700.00/mo for one kid, think that would pay the light bill?


you can tell the day care that his daddy will be calling, I bet things would change if they needed some clarification on what IS accceptable and what isn't, I'll bet you that. Of course, you need a plan B, you don't want to cut your nose off to spite your face.