Originally Posted by
Scottish Ellen
As most of you know from my previous topic, I am currently a childminder of 8yr old girls, they are twins by the way and friends of my own daughter Cailyn, or so I thought.
We are just back from a guides camping weekend, we all had a good time apart from me and Cailyn, the twins picked on Cailyn all weekend, once they were so nasty that Cailyn came to me and the guides leader in tears because she was being ganged up on, verbally not physically.
As a volunteer I left it to the group leader to sort out, which she did, to her credit.
I am really thinking of telling the parents that I'm going to resign as their childminder because they disrespect me when it comes to zipping jackets, staying close by me on and holding hands at busy roads during the walk to school.
Tomorrow I have 3 new kids to care for, all girls, one aged 5 and 2 aged 9, the 9yr olds will sometimes be staying at mine for a fortnight because both parents start work offshore on the rigs, I have gone over my policies with both parents and they agree to all including my jacket zipping one but they said the kids "may test you to start off with".
I really enjoy childminding and Cailyn enjoys the extra company so I'm not going to stop childminding altogether.