Whiney Baby!

Late Friday night my husband was going through our kid’s daycare diaper bag and found a “Letter of Termination” from the director of our kid’s daycare. The letter reads:

“Please accept this letter as notice of termination of care for your child. As per our contract agreement, I am provided a two week notice and last day of care will be April 23, 2010. Your child’s whining is getting progressively worse. It is getting to the point where it is beginning to disrupt lesson time. I feel your child may not be happy here, and might do better in another daycare setting. I wish you and your family all the best.”

My child is two, the youngest in the daycare, an only-child, recently potty trained (training) and has sever pollen allergies. I’m thinking my child was more of an “inconvenience” to her and/or the staff. Ok, I understand children whine and complain and cry, etc. But when a two-year-old does it there is obviously a level of attention is missing. Either the child is feeling jealous, mistreated, neglected or afraid. Generally, they don’t whine to be annoying.

What really brings out my anger about this whole situation is my husband and I was not given the opportunity to a parent-teach conference, we were not given the FULL details of the extent of the whining; all we were told when we inquired about the day was “whining at lesson time.” THAT’S IT!! She never made us feel like it could cause her to terminate care.

We were shocked, to say the least.

THEN, to FIND the letter IN the diaper bag without having told us to our FACE!!

OMG… I can’t even BEGIN to tell you how angry I was.

But… as my favorite mantras goes:

“What comes around, goes around” and
“Everything happens for a reason”

So, even though we have been running our like crazy people trying to find a suitable caregiver for our child, we know this will be a change for the better.

ETA: Hind sight is 20/20… after talking with my husband we now realize she might be right about our child not being happy there. Today we have a very happy, smiley kid. Again.