what SOME parents think of us cm's

**PRINCESSDAISYFLOWER** · 22-12-2011, 08:43 PM

Well i was at dh's work do last night. Some of his colleagues know im a cm but most assume im a SAHM as i have a 1 yr old and a 3yr old.

Sitting next two me were 3 women talking about their children and the cm's.
They got on the subject of their cm's as one said she was gonna "drink herself into oblivion" as the kids are going for an xmas party at the cm's.

Her friend said "i thought they didnt go thursdays" the mum said they dont but the cm is having them for free so they could go to the party. Mum then laughed and said what a mug the cm was for having the kids without pay. The friend said, "give her a nice xmas bonus then" to which the mum replied "no fing way, its bad enough I pay her to sit round on her fat a*** all day!"

They all had a good old giggle at that. Then the 3rd lady piped up how she was suprised that she wasnt called out of work today as she had sent her 18month old to her cm's with bad v&d but "i dosed her up on calpol and told the cm that any d&v would be because she is teething" she went on to say she didnt see the problem as the cm's kids are all teenagers any way".

Dh had his hand on my leg to stop me from swinging at them from across the table. further on in the night when one found out I was a cm she asked me how much I changed as she was looking for a new cm, I took great pleasure in telling her that there was absolutely no way she could afford me!

**sarah707** · 22-12-2011, 08:49 PM

How on earth did you manage to keep quiet?

Hugs xx

**PRINCESSDAISYFLOWER** · 22-12-2011, 08:53 PM

with great difficulty Sarah, I think if it had been any other social situation I wouldn't have. But I knew once I started I wouldnt be able to stop one kept on referring to her cm as "the help" or the "babysitter"

**snufflepuff** · 22-12-2011, 09:01 PM

Oh my goodness, well done for keeping quiet! I wouldn't have been able to control myself!

**samb** · 22-12-2011, 09:12 PM

My goodness you must have amazing self control!!!

**Playmate** · 22-12-2011, 09:40 PM

You are one very brave and restrained lady, if it had been me or hubby at that table there would have been headlines in the papers this morning

**Tatjana** · 22-12-2011, 09:51 PM

What charming ladies

**EmmaReed84** · 23-12-2011, 06:22 AM

Originally Posted by PRINCESSDAISYFLOWER

Well i was at dh's work do last night. Some of his colleagues know im a cm but most assume im a SAHM as i have a 1 yr old and a 3yr old.

Sitting next two me were 3 women talking about their children and the cm's.
They got on the subject of their cm's as one said she was gonna "drink herself into oblivion" as the kids are going for an xmas party at the cm's.

Her friend said "i thought they didnt go thursdays" the mum said they dont but the cm is having them for free so they could go to the party. Mum then laughed and said what a mug the cm was for having the kids without pay. The friend said, "give her a nice xmas bonus then" to which the mum replied "no fing way, its bad enough I pay her to sit round on her fat a*** all day!"

They all had a good old giggle at that. Then the 3rd lady piped up how she was suprised that she wasnt called out of work today as she had sent her 18month old to her cm's with bad v&d but "i dosed her up on calpol and told the cm that any d&v would be because she is teething" she went on to say she didnt see the problem as the cm's kids are all teenagers any way".

Dh had his hand on my leg to stop me from swinging at them from across the table. further on in the night when one found out I was a cm she asked me how much I changed as she was looking for a new cm, I took great pleasure in telling her that there was absolutely no way she could afford me!

OMG how you stayed quiet I will never know. I am not one to sit and listen to BS like that. I would have had to said something along the lines of

"Well the next time DH has d&v I will make him to go work and see you personally and ensure he spreads his glorious infection with you, it's ok your an adult so it wont matter... And as for you (the moo who had free childcare) I think you should be damn grateful your childminder has the heart to get off her fat a*** for the day to throw a party for your child, and what a shame you do not value the person who looks after you child while you come to work and ***** and snipe about her. But hey being a childminder myself I must say it is good to know that we get paid to sit on our a*** all day

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**IndigoMoon** · 23-12-2011, 07:14 AM

Goodness, that's shocking! I'm not sure I would have been able to hold my tongue! Thank goodness most parents have a lot more respect for their childcare's than that bunch!

**funemnx** · 23-12-2011, 07:22 AM

I hope they both get D & V all over Christmas

**ajs** · 23-12-2011, 08:06 AM

Well done for staying quiet.

There are a few women from the slimming world face book page, that I have added as personal friends, one of them was ranting with her friend about how her friend had no money, and my "friend " said well it's because you pay your childminder too much to do nothing. I wasn't quiet and certainly didn't leave her not knowing what I thought about what she'd said. Then she tried to justify her comment by saying I was obviously different to her friends childminder and not money orientated. I let her know how hard we work out of hours how badly we get paid in hours and how much we actually earn and would she work for that.
She didn't reply to me in fact. Tink she may have deleted me

**blue bear** · 23-12-2011, 08:57 AM

Would so love the childminders in question to identify themselves from this post and tackle these two delightful ladies about what they said! Thank goodness there are more greatful parents out there who think the world of their childminders.