CM Club: Formula made up in advance?

[Katymac]

a)Some parents provide me with bottles of water & powder - I zap in M/W then add powder

b)Some parents provide me with made up bottles to either zap in M/W or in hot water

c)Some give me sterilized bottles and I add water & powder

So based on current advise a & c are fine, but that b is an issue

After gently bringing it up with parents, they have sadi they prefer to bring made-up bottles

How do I deal with this?

It's not best practice, but it is parents decision not to do this

I can't argue or critise them, so what do I do?

Mo

LT I have made the cardinal sin recently of giving poorly mindee some of my own infant paracetamol, mum was happy for me to do that as she'd left hers at home, she also hadn't had time to write it in my book either. God I sometimes hate the red tape in this job.

But Henni - if you had a child overnight, surely you'd HAVE to brush their teeth - they won't see the parents to do this themselves!

Well, I had to borrow some from my next door neighbour! I don't have any childrens medicines anymore!

Yes I would, but as I don't then no I won't

• that's ok then. I do agree about it and I hate seeing mindees teeth (since au pair started they've got very yellow and - yuck! ) BUT it's not my responsibility and I don't want to go there!! But of course I have to do them when I have them overnight, it would be wrong not to!

and in my defence the mindee has time to have breakfast before she comes but for some reason doesn't, takes an absolute age with me so I wouldn't have time as she is only with me for 30mins or so before school. It can take her anywhere up to an hour to eat if not chivvied along.

Would any of your parents really lay the blame on you for a cavity? I know none of mine would. I've got a row of toothbrushes in my bathroom. I often get a txt from one mum, saying, 'get X to clean his teeth, he forgot this morning!' And another one arrives straight from her bed, in her pj's at 6am! So, do I say, no sorry, no can do, you didn't sign a consent form? Surely, in another part of your contract, it says you will ensure mindees are not neglected.

Hows this for a permission form:

I (insert parents name) give (minders name)permission to treat (insert minees name) as she would one of her own! would that not cover everything?!

No mine wouldn't but it wouldn't/couldn't be beyond the realms of possibility. We never know what our next lot of parents are going to be like.

That would work fine Henni, as long as my parents don't mind that they do the bins and stack the dishwasher!

Mo - agree mine wouldn't either - and sometimes I'll do them as I have a toothbrush here for her anyway - just not going to get roped into it being my responsibility to do it everyday as quite often they are dropped just as I go on the school run and then it's group etc! Now when they started at 6.45am, I saw it as part of the job!

You'll laugh at this one: Mindee 1 said it's very dusty in here, so I reply "well is busy looking after you and taking you andxyz to different places and doing nice things so you have a lovely time with me." She turned round, asked for her flannel to wash her face which I gave her and she then preceeded to wipe the surface down whilst I was busy changing toddler mindees nappy behind the sofa!

Some time ago, I had 4 after schoolies and 1 pre-school 2 year old I think. A new schoolie started with me and she had her biscuit with everyone else after school and left her packet on the table. I pointed out to her that since there were so many of us, we were all responsible for our own rubbish. I then got a bit silly and said that X would be cleaning the kitchen, Y would be hoovering and Z would be cleaning the toilet! Upon which the 2 year old burst into tears and yelled 'but I want to clean the toilet!'