4.) A memorable day at work.
His name was James and he was the first child in my home daycare that I had serious reservations with. I could not warm up to him. I’m convinced that human to human, our personality’s were never meant to get along. The problem was I was a 30 year old daycare provider and he was two. A baby.
He was not pleasurable to be around. It was the terrible twos like nothing I’d ever seen before. He kicked and screamed and hurt other children. He slobbered and yelled. He was the child that made me wonder if I was in the right profession. How could I not like a two year old? Why couldn’t I calm him? How could a two year old ruin my entire day? Every. Day.
A TWO YEAR OLD!
So one particularly tantrum filled day I decided maybe I had been handling him all wrong. These kids who throw tantrum after tantrum are exactly the ones who need to be loved on a little more. I had been letting him deter me and that was just feeding his anger. I needed to love him. I needed to force the love.
He woke up screaming from his nap as usual and I quickly knelt by his side, whispered sweet nothings and swept his hair away from his sweaty brow. “It’s okay buddy, I’m right here!” I decided he needed hugs, “come here you! come sit on the couch with me and we’ll snuggle…”
I picked him up and wrapped my arms around him, “ssshhh it’s okay little guy…”
And then he threw up all over me.
ALL. OVER. ME.
I’m not sure what kind of message he was trying to send me through his puke, but I’m pretty positive it wasn’t a nice one.
He went home early that day.
The Prompts:
1.) Share a Whitney Houston song that meant something to you.
2.) Just when you didn’t think things could get worse…how did they get worse?
3.) Create a reverse bucket list that names the top ten things you never want to do.
4.) A memorable day at work.
5.) Share a story about a sibling.
Jordy says
Hope you’ve had better days since then… and I guess that was a good excuse to send him home?
I finally got the day right! Thanks as always for hosting WW. :)
Jessica says
Hahaha! I was not expecting that ending. Hope you have had better days since.
Erin says
And here I thought I was going to hear how you were the hero of the day.
This so reminded me of a time when my oldest barfed all over me gallons of milk, uggh I couldn’t get rid of that smell for what seemed like forever!
Melissa B. says
Ah, vomiting of the projectile variety. I feel your pain. So glad those days are over for moi!
Oh, Say, Can You See?
Brooke @ Covered in Grace says
omg. yuck.
I experienced something similar… I had an in-home daycare for a while. I love little kids. Love them. But there was this one little boy…who made me miserable. He never stopped crying. Never. No matter what. My husband, who was able to come home for lunch breaks then, stopped coming home b/c of the kid. The day he told me his reasoning for staying out to lunch…was the last day I ever kept that child. =(
Can’t bond with them all.
Linda says
Some kids are just hard to love! Definitely a surprise ending – I was expecting you to win him over! Rotten day at work for real!
gin says
Being thrown up on is the worst…however, if I had to choose between having my own kid throw up on me and a stranger’s kid, I would choose my own. At least you have a hand in what goes in the contents of your own kid’s stomach!
Karen and Gerard says
Oh YUCK! No wonder he woke up screaming!
Steph says
Nothing says I love you like vomiting in your face!
Diane@BeStillaMinute says
You have my utmost respect for running a daycare. That would have been the end of the line for me!
Lady Estrogen says
HUGE credit to you. I can barely, at times, manage my own kids. The idea of having more (that aren’t mine) to watch all day gives me shudders. Barf, indeed.
Arnebya @whatnowandwhy says
I vacillate between having a home day care and teaching. I contemplated once going through the licensing, the testing, the inspections, and all to open a day care. The day my husband and I sat down to seriously discuss it I had been home from work for three days with the kids. My kids. Let’s just say after the tequila and before he got in the door good I was yelling, “Shid! I can’t even deal with my own.”
This isn’t entirely true, though. I think I have less patience with my own b/c I have the luxury of wondering WHO IN THE HELL IS RAISING YOU TO ACT LIKE THIS. I am a paragon of patience with other people’s kids…even kicking/screaming/tantrum throwing 2 yr olds.
Jennifer@ The Mommy Mambo says
Well, at least you tried right? I don’t know how you’ve only managed to have a distaste for one? Other peoples children are just not as wonderful as our own. They’re like seeing their parents stripped of their socially rehearsed behavior, in the raw!
Dana K says
I had a four year old purposely stomp on my broken toe. It was all I could do to not get fired but I managed to control myself.
Puke would have ended poorly & required my husband to come home early to clean up.
Ducky says
I work with kids too…in education. For 10 years I worked JUST with high school age kids then, for some reason, I must have pissed someone off and they reassigned me to elementary kids last year. Of course it was with the promise that it was temporary. This school year when I was again given that case load I nearly fell out…to the tune of a two -year old tantrum. In an effort to placate me they split my day between the high school and elementary school…somehow its even worse. I WANTED to write about a memorable day. EVERY day is so memorable I’m close to self medicating just to get through them. Figured it was safer to pick a different option.
In short…I feel your pain.
Funkidivagirl says
That….is gross. Poor Mama Kat!
Angel says
OH yuck… did you keep him even after that?? Did ya ever bond?
Ginger@NJAMT says
And….did the force love continue into a happy connection…I am on pins and needles here!
Happy Thursday!
Dara Dokas says
Very gross! How long did he stay at your daycare? I bet Mom and Dad were happy you had him all day, instead of them.
Just Jennifer says
Oh, gross! Hmm, I wonder if he had an upset tummy a lot and that’s why he acted out?
Frelle says
oh man, that would be the most memorable moment, wouldnt it? YUCK.
Not a Perfect Mom says
I used to work in a day care and it used to make me nuts when those kids that were super bratty had parents that thought they hung the moon…um, open your eyes…Johnny’s a nightmare…
and other kid’s barf is so gross…
Patrice says
Sounds like the one day I was a substitute teacher, except more kids vomiting…I never went back!
Jen says
I am laughing because that is funny.
Ah, children.
ronnie says
What happened after that day??????
Katie says
It is tough when you have a kid, or a student, or a coworker you don’t like, but have to deal with. Poor you, ya try to do the right thing and get puked.
Donna May says
hahahahaha! Sorry.
Lacey@AndTheyCallMeMommy says
I worked at a preschool for a very.short.time and there was a 3 year old in my class who felt this way about. He was awful. Ruined my day every.single.day. It was exhausting.
JDaniel4's Mom says
I guess his system couldn’t handle that kind of attention.
meleah rebeccah says
Yikes. I can’t imagine anything worse than a terrible-two-year-old vomiting all over me.
Jamie says
I so couldn’t have done the daycare thing — long term. I’d been great for about 2 weeks. I’d been a great daycare giver substitute. I’m in awe of you.
Kisatrtle says
For the love of all things holy…that is enough to make you puke!
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Susan in the Boonies says
Mmmmm….I feeeeeeeeeel the luuuuuuuuuuuv.
Paula Kiger says
Well, THAT was quite the home daycare story. I guess sometimes we are just downright not cut out for each other, right? :-)
Emmy says
Doh! Yea, not sure what he was trying to tell you either. And yea, I don’t think I could survive taking care of other people’s kids all day
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