I have just finished looking after a little girl .She started with me when she was 8 months old and I had her for 9 hours, sometimes 10 hours a day for 4 days of the week. The parents moved house and told me they wanted to get a new childminder in their area as it was adding on to their journey time, I was upset but they reassured me that if they could they would have me carry on for them but that it just wasnt viable because of their journey time...fair enough so I helped them find a new one and gave them details. It then took them 2 months to get round to contacting her. I kept asking whats the situation..Ineed to know so I can look for other work and they kept being apologetic and saying theys not had time to get round to doing anything about but yes she would prob still be leaving by half term. Eventually the Thursday before half term they told me that the following day would be her last! So next day was her last, my children did beautiful cards for her, i did lovely card for her and passed on lovely learning journal that Id worked really hard on. And that was it. No thank you card/gift...nothing. Baby that we've gone through teething, illness, learning to walk, crawl...basically like part of out family for 5 months is gone and Im really upset that the parents never thought to thank me properly...sure, on the door they said a quick thank you but that was it. Am i wrong to expect more? Do any of you get upset when a little one leaves like I have?