Childcarers Do you tell parents about 1st steps?

[ShoshableEggEater]

Following on from another thread, do you tell an parent if the child has taken its first steps with you?

Would depend on the parents, one I definatly didn't feel comfortable to do so (baby was pfb), yet another (not first born)I did, allthough for some bizarre reason didn't feel able tell the babies sibling!!

No - & I explain that in their initial interview

I will never "see" a baby do something first, that is a mums right and priviledge - iyswim

It's something I feel very strongly about

I strongly suspect that my DS took his first steps at CM last week and she said nothing. Bless her, I like to fool myself that he saved them for me

I dont ever eother Katy, just dosnt seem right to tell them somehow.

Thas really nice that you explain it in the first interview

Arrrrrrrrrrrrr - bless you at never seeing a baby doing something for the first time and that being the mum's privilage.

As a mum who has to owrk and has to use a childminder that had me in tears! Bless you!

No, I personally wouldn't. If the baby walked here first I would wait until the parents saw it and told me. I feel it's something a parent should experience first.

My c/m didn't tell me with my eldest..

aww, hope dd's nuresy is as nice as you are!! i'd be gutted if someone told me they'd seen it before me!

No, I don't tell! I never notice any first teeth either, or rolling over, crawling ... nothing.

I did take a video of one mindee walking the length of my lounge though - she'd been taking a few steps, but not anything so far. I emailed it to her mum at work, she was really pleased. I wouldn't have done it for any parents that I didn't think would appreciate it though.