November 17, 2008
-
frustration abounds with this childcare thing….
so if you are one of my Facebook friends, you know I have started minding other peoples children at my home as at the mintue The Husband and I not afford for both of us not to be working and trying to find adequate childcare for my three children that was not costing a fortune was impossible. The one childminder we did have our children with ended not as great as it started. My children have had a few different minders over the course of their lives and not once have I ever had someone complain about them. It is usually me who is saying to the minder “are we talking about the same three children? Because you can’t be talking about my three children.” That said, my children are not all out evil or extremely misbehaved, but they are children. However, the one fulltime minder they did have in Calgary, seemed to blame a whole host of things on my children. When collecting the children one day, The Husband was told that Healthy Weighty Wee Man had torn the screen out of the screen door, while I knew that not to be true, it was already hanging out before we ever arrived on her doorstep.
Anyhow I am digressing…
My frustration now lies with needing to have “X” amount of children to make this profitable for me to stay home (with our children) minding other children. At the minute I have two children, one of which I could do without. I shall now refer to them as Tiny Wee Man and Screaming Chinese Child. Tiny Wee Man is just that, he is one year old and about the same size Healthy Weighty Wee Man was when he was born, okay I exaggerate, but he is small, however he is happy and healthy and that is all that matters. Screaming Chinese Child is EXCATLY that. Her parents are Chinese and Canadian. The very first day that SCC stayed she was grand. The second day, not so much but not too bad either. From the third day on … not at all. All, ALL. ALL!! that SCC does is
screamSCREAM!!!! at the top of her lungs for HOURS on end. From the time she arrives to the time she leaves. The only time she is not screaming is when she has screamed her tiny wee self tired and therefore to sleep, she is eating, or when her parents are holding her. I have told the parents about this and I gave them a time line of how long I am going to put up with it. Now I wish I hadn’t. I will have one more week of screaming to endure. Her father seems to think she likes coming here. I am trying to wrap my mind around that one. And yes they know all about the screaming. I was hoping they would take pity on the child and pull her themselves. Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhh …..NO!Gotta go, the screaming has begun again…
Comments (2)
Oh, that sounds brutal! (and exhausting) Will pray that it resolves quickly so you can have some modicum of peace and quiet back.
ps(I wonder if she might have a food allergy/ health issue that’s contributing to the screaming?)
@Kat - no its not an allergy unless its an allergyt o other people. And the stress I was beginning to feel just knowing she was coming was off the chart! Not to mention the stress of when she was here screaming. I have figured out (in posts to come) that the only time SCC did not scream and was awake at the same time was when she was stuck in a corner by herself or there were no other children about. I have had to tell the parents that I can’t care for her any more. I really think the child is un-socialized as she doesn’t seem happy to be about other children.