October 8, 2009

• I must really need my head read!

  Okay after Paul and I separated a few months ago, I was laid off from my job the same week.  Yeah. I. Know! But it was already in the works, and really there was nothing that could have been done about it.  And I really have no animosity toward the company.  It was a great company to work for and everyone in it was great.  The day I got laid off, the executive members that were present were more upset than I was, which in its own way was touching.  But I am digressing, because I got laid off, I felt it was giving me the option again to stay at home and mind children.  Not so much because I so love having children in my house as a matter of necessity. 

  Don’t get me wrong, I love my children (as much as I try to sell them most days!) and I enjoy the company of their friends when they are over.  But really, I went on to become an administrator not a childminder in my “professional life” for a reason.  Now it is really necessity that makes me turn to opening my home to care for other children on a daily basis.  As I have to maximize my income and having to pay out nearly $1800 a month in childcare fees plus rent, utilities, food, vehicle expenses, etc, etc, etc, I thought the best way to do this was to mind other peoples children.  I am quickly realizing who does and does not discipline their children.  FAST!  I am definitely having my patience tested with my one full time child.  I really have to wonder if she is let away with everything at home.  Her parents say she has boundaries at home, but I have to wonder.  So far she has thrown a fit twice now because she didn’t want to eat lunch, a sandwich she was asked if she wanted and said yes when asked, at the age of five she walks around with a blankie sucking her thumb.  When I told Her Parents that she would not be allowed to do so in my house (yes she can have the blankie in the house but no thumb sucking) it was responded to with, “Well I guess she has to stop sucking her thumb sometime.” Yeh. Really.

  Again I wonder … do I need my head read?

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