This has really pissed me off & I am a SAHM! You people are PAID by these guys tpo do a job, they pay your wages & you want to tell them how to raise their kids?
I am lucky, dd never played up shopping, whether it be for food or clothes etc, but I know 2 boys who create merry hell for their mum when she shops, so I help out when I can & look after them. She can't even sit down for a cuppa without a problem, so won't bother until they are in bed. Some things are just easier, clamer & better for all done at a time when mum/dad can do it themselves.
Stop justifying youselves if you use day care. They are doing a job for you, they have NO right telling you what you should/shouldn't be doing.
shaqpe - well firstly.... So we should ALL have time off work EVERY time our child/ren has a birthday? The children should be off school on their birthday, every year? Get real!
Secondly most if not ALL childcare places charge for the child if he/she attends their days or not. They charge the full fee if you pick them up at the normal time or earlier. So if you are paying for a facility, what are you most likely to do? USE IT, no?
So freaking what if they are 'getting their money's worth' money is pretty bloody hard to come by for alot of people. I like to get my monies worth at the shops, in soft play centres, at swimming pools etc, why not at childcare.
It's like paying for the gym/season ticket for football & not using it.... a waste of money!
As for telling us that your charges mum 'shops' all day, how do you know this? She may not work, but how do you know she shops all day, have you followed her? How do you know that she doesn't have PND. Doesn't work because of a medical problem.
Who the hell are YOU to judge ANYONE who pays your fecking wages?
Get over yourself! Glad you don't look after my child!
Who incidentally was looked after at a childminders for 6 weeks when I went back to work. One day the assistant left 2 stair gates open. My daughter was just starting to crawl. She made her way through the sleeping area, through the play area, through the kitchen [where the F* were these people who were supposed to be looking after her?] up the stairs, [which were the type with no backs on] where the family dog was while the charges were present, into the bath room & was found 30 minutes after they realised she was 'missing' playing with [thankfully well sealed] bottles on the bathroom floor!
Enough said. It sickens me.