Toddlers: 24 Months+
SusieBW
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Daycare Vent
SusieBW
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A week and a half ago, on a Friday when it had snowed, DD's daycare sent another kid home with DD's only snow boots, and she wore his sneakers home (they were 2 sizes too big, so I have no idea how they got her boots on him in the first place, but whatever). She still hasn't gotten them back. It was a Friday, and when DD went to school again on Monday, I put the other kid's sneakers in her backpack to return. We have asked and asked and asked, but still no boots. DH actually said that he feels like a PITA because he asks for her boots every single time he goes in there to drop off or pick up.
In the grand scheme, it hasn't been such a big deal, because it hasn't snowed since then. But it's snowing now and we're supposed to get 10 inches by tomorrow morning, and the daycare director just texted me to apologize because the other parent forgot my DD's boots AGAIN. She said she thought they might be bringing them tonight, but in the meantime, she would check at her house to see if she had a pair that would fit DD, and will give them to DH when he picks up today, which is very nice. But still, I'm pretty much blind with rage right now, and just really needed to vent. I wrote back and asked that she please reach out to the other parents again and tell them we need those boots back tonight because they are her only ones. How do you keep another kid's boots for this long?! Put them in your damn car so you can't forget!
In the grand scheme, it hasn't been such a big deal, because it hasn't snowed since then. But it's snowing now and we're supposed to get 10 inches by tomorrow morning, and the daycare director just texted me to apologize because the other parent forgot my DD's boots AGAIN. She said she thought they might be bringing them tonight, but in the meantime, she would check at her house to see if she had a pair that would fit DD, and will give them to DH when he picks up today, which is very nice. But still, I'm pretty much blind with rage right now, and just really needed to vent. I wrote back and asked that she please reach out to the other parents again and tell them we need those boots back tonight because they are her only ones. How do you keep another kid's boots for this long?! Put them in your damn car so you can't forget!
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Re: Daycare Vent
on a non-related note...jason statham is yummy.
So at least I know she's trying now, even if the staff wasn't overly helpful for the past week!
I'm still raging about this.
I get other kid's sheets sent home to me all the time, she comes home in other kids pants sometimes, even though there is an extra pair or two in her backpack, sometimes she doesn't have any mittens to wear home . . . it's a chronic thing, you know? And when they were her only snow boots, and no one could ever just acknowledge that they were lost for almost two weeks, it's frustrating.
I'm a stickler when it comes to things like this, for the next set of boots place a strip of pink duct tape around the toe of the boots and write her name on across the duct tape...maybe people will get the "hint"!
The director bought her another new pair today, and I'm told that they fit well and my DD loves them. I can't imagine what they look like and I have no idea where they came from, but I'm done.
I am still pretty curious what could've happened to her other boots, though. They were awesome boots.
That is terrible- I would be livid! We live in Chicago (think polar vertex!) and our daycare has never lost any of our items (maybe a bib we bought once- that we didn't label and happened to be the same type that they used, so i don't even count that). Also, I know none of the parents in our daycare would knowingly keep items that didn't belong to them.
Somebody definitely deserves the side eye.
But, by way of follow up, DH and I have a theory of what happened to her boots. The day that she came home without them, daycare said something to DH about one of the other kids having a serious poop accident during outside play time, to the extent that it got in/on his shoes, and how that was a big disruption that day. DD is often the last kid picked up at the end of the day, by the way. We think that kid was actually wearing DD's boots when it happened, and they got thrown away. Her boots were blue and black and I guess they did look like boys boots, so they probably just got switched for recess, but no one realized it until everyone was going home and that kid wore his own boots home (which DD had probably been wearing at recess), leaving her with nothing to wear home. Now none of the parents have them, and no one can find them, because they got thrown away because of the poop explosion. That was the first time she had ever worn them to daycare, too.
Sigh. I loved those boots, they looked so stinking cute with her skinny jeans.