cm club being soft again .......

[dmo]

mindee 3 does 3 days per week different days
each week
so this week he is booked in weds/thurs/fri

looking at my diary 2 weeks ago i notice i have no mindees this morning and dh and i need to see the doctor together so i phone the doctors and book a double appointment and dh books the morning off

this morning at 7.20am (only open at 7.30) mindee 3 is at the door with mum
i say i havent got him today and mum said that dad was meant to phone me last week to change friday for tuesday (which he didnt) and that she needed to get to work, i explain to her about docs etc but she had one focus work.

i then had to phone docs at 8am to cancel appointment (mindee 3 is like the tazmanian devel and we need to listen to the doctor carefully) so dh is in a bad mood with me and got up and went to work as normal i'm upset cause i dont know when we can go to the doctors again together (need to get there b4 23rd feb and next week is half term)

what would you say to parents when they pick mindee up?

i would be totally straight with them dmo and tell them that you had to cancel a joint appt and dh was very unhappy.

i would also point out that if they drop their child off before 7.30 you are not insured for those extra ten mins so if something were to happen.....................

good point
dh said i should charge for a full hour for that 10 mins

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i would def charge something for that ten mins!
i had a parent who kept turning up at 8.50 even though her dd wasnt meant to be here till 9 so i told her she would have to sit with her for the ten mins as i was not insured,she didnt do it again!

mum pays me monthly and enclosed with the cheque is a list of his hours for the four weeks so i did have it in writting

dh said i'm to soft thats why he is cross at me says i'm a doormat and i should have said no

I would have got my dh to answer the door and got him to say i was elsewhere as not working today, and then see what she did, unless of course your dh is registered assistant!!! No-one would do that kind of thing to a nursery so why do we have to put up with it!! Always tricky though and I would have probably done the same!!! I am too soft aswell!!!!! Good luck maybe if you explain how important the docs was/is and how disappointed your dh and you are she may feel bad.

7.20am dh asleep and i was just getting up when doorbell rang so still in pj's
was off work yesterday cause i fell on sunday and heve stiches in my knee and my side is black and blue
finding changing nappies very hard today in alot of pain
mindee 3 parent saw me yesterday and asked what happened and i said something about going to docs today as i have no mindees so she must have known

she's at it then

hope you sort her out tonight

I wouldnt have answered the door.
At the end of the day it is tough luck parents are so incapible of communicating the hrs to you. Surely you are in your right to charge for today and Friday as you have booked yourself up to mind their child?? Not your problem there plans changed last minute-u have been totally used and I would not be happy if I were you and cant blame your husband.
Are u happy doing to the different days each week with the parents>?U could warn them and say u wont be able to carry that on if communciation fails again! That should scare them lol
Hope your side gets better soon bless u!
Hope it wasnt a drunken fall

first reaction.......Cheeky b*tch
but we know that!
i understand fully why you did it.BUT..and its easy to say when its not me!..i would tell her that you had to cancel a very important app today which has caused lots of problems(dont go into it, she obv doesnt care), id tell her that she MUST give you adequate notice of any changes or her child will in future be turned away.

arrrrrrrrrhhh am so for you!

no alcohol involved for the fall so i felt the pain stright away

i hobbled downstairs this morning cause i wondered who on earth was at my door at 7.20am

never thought of billing her for friday what a fab idea

love you lot you have the best (most wick) ideas

ooh yes most definatly, dont even mention it!, as far as you were aware she was sending her child that day, its her/her dp's fault!

p.s ooooooooohhh fall sounded bad..can you get there fri when her child wont be there or do you have other mindees?

I agree with charging her for Friday aswell as today. Why couldn't she have phoned you last week instead of leaving it to her dh?

Ouch, that fall sounds vicious!

I think it's appropriate to charge for Friday - you weren't meant to be working today, and planned what sounds like a very very important appointment. It seems fair to be compensated.

Hope you feel better soon

going for a hot bath in a mo

mindees dad came with flowers which staggered me a bit, but i did write on his info sheet that i will be charging them for 4 days this week, not heard anything from them

cant go friday i have the sceaming baby!!!

I am really too soft with parents on all sorts of issues (but it works OK most of the time so not a problem).

However, if dh had booked morning off for joint doctor's appointment, I really think I would have refused to have the child. Even I am not that soft!!

Your accident sounds bad, so hope you have an easier week.

enjoy your bath chick

is that LO still screaming??..poor you

big amd about flowers tho!, shows they know they were in wrong and maybe her dp isnt so self involved as she was??

thanks strawberry
feel refreshed now after bath put creams on my bruises
we will just see what time mindee arrives at tomo, not going to open the door till 7.30am even if its raining

no, dont..just say you were ..still getting ready/drying your hair/getting out of the shower/hiding upstairs behind curtain so they couldnt see you

hope u feel better soon chick!
Nice to have the flowers & well done for putting down the charge for Friday...they havent a leg to stand on really

no thats DMO...!..sorry....couldnt resist that one..i am an evil evil woman

anyway.....am getting you back for that very specific email you sent me last night!!!!!!