Child care workers have seen it all but it still doesn’t save them from getting pet peeves from parents’ behaviors. While it comes with the profession, it will definitely make a world of difference for these child care workers if parents could see the wrong in their ways and make it easier for their children’s child care providers.

If you are a child care provider, read on and find out whether any of these pet peeves on the job resonate with you. If you are a parent, hopefully you’ll gain some perspective into what child care workers feel when you do this and correct your ways.

Complaints about their kids’ dirty or stained clothes

Parents are eager to always have their child look well-dressed among their peers.
However, it cannot be avoided that children playing will be engaged in messy play, whether it’s indoor or outdoor.
Paint stains, dirt in their clothes and hands, and leaves stuck in their hair, children will be careless of how they look in general so long as they are having fun.
However, come pick up time, some parents expect their children to look as pristine as when they come in. These are parents that give child care workers pain.

Ignoring the center’s COVID-19 or sick policy

Child care centers have a responsibility to ensure that their learning environment is safe for all of the children in their care, especially with the coronavirus pandemic still going on.
This is why child care providers are being very strict about enforcing their COVID-19 or sick policies.
A single infection spreading in the center could mean closed days for business which would mean more losses and threaten the business.
Some parents even go as far as giving their child medicine like Tylenol or Pepto to mask the sickness just to make sure their child is accepted into the center.
However, whenever a child is sick, any childcare provider will have no choice but to send the sick child home in order to also protect the health of the rest of the children in their care.

Parents hanging out after dropping their child

Other child care workers and early childhood educators report parents who hang around after dropping their child present a unique obstacle in their working routines.
While it is nice to see a parent engaging their child’s educators, it can make for very awkward situations where an educator is hampered from going about their daily routine and attending to the children in their care.

Having to write bite reports

Children who bite are unavoidable. However, these bite reports which are mandated to be written and presented to parents prove to be a source of concern and aggravation for child care workers, especially when parents refuse to believe their child bit another child or overreact over their child being bitten.

Blaming child care providers for their child’s behavior

Like writing bite reports, most child care workers often get the blame whenever a child misbehaves.
Parents, and even child care directors sometimes, forget to attribute a child’s behavior to the child. Instead they usually shift, if not project, the blame toward the child care worker.