I have an in home daycare and the parents haven't paid in over a month

[Anonymous]

And OP chalk this up as a lessons learned for future clients. Have an agreement in writing and charge for services beforehand. I would even move your current clients onto a pre-pay schedule, just give them plenty of notice that you’re doing it so they can adjust their finances accordingly, maybe even phasing in the change.

[Anonymous]

Are you the mom in the thread last week about the parent picking up her kid late from your kid’s birthday party? Some of the details seem very similar.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, you charged her for her kid to attend your kid's bday party? Was the party during the normal day care hours? Did you ask her to pay extra to cover food and entertainment? That's odd.

The party was on the weekend. I do lots of weekend babysitting for her. She showed up an hour late for the birthday party and dropped her kid off. She picked up her daughter 2 hours AFTER the party. I did not charge for the 2 hours during the party. The party was NOT drop off. She was way out of line. I also had to keep calling her because she would not reposed to me. I didn't know where she was. She disappeared from the party.

Is this mom partying and drinking/using drugs?

Yes. She's not a responsible person at all. She has left her daughter in the same diaper and clothes many days. Her daughter is in the same diaper from 5pm to the next morning. I know because I use my sons diapers on her. She also dropped her daughter off a few days ago KNOWING that she had a stomach virus. There are so many things that have gone with this lady. I am so happy to be done with her. Some parents are awful.

CPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you the mom in the thread last week about the parent picking up her kid late from your kid’s birthday party? Some of the details seem very similar.

Never mind. Just saw that was you. I would eat the remaining $200 and chalk it up to lessons learned about how to better conduct business in the future.

[Anonymous]

$200 is cheap, all things considered. Just think if you had multiple families flake like this.

Use the time to give the other families a heads up that you are restructuring the payment schedule,* and think about making explicit some things noted above if not already there (late fees, charge for babysitting outside of daycare hours, etc).

*Take the high road. Do not bad mouth anyone. If you must say anything: "It became markedly apparent that I needed to make these changes, unfortunately," and leave it at that. No names.

Trust me, they will know anyway.

[Anonymous]

Do you have a license to run this daycare?

[Anonymous]

No deadbeat sent you most of it through PayPal and sent you a nasty note. I call fake. If she needed to wait until next check, she didn’t magically find $800. Nice story though

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No deadbeat sent you most of it through PayPal and sent you a nasty note. I call fake. If she needed to wait until next check, she didn’t magically find $800. Nice story though

OP here. I wish this story were fake. She sent me lots of nasty texts as well. She called me a who** and lots of nasty stuff.

[Anonymous]

Save all of her communication with you.

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Anonymous wrote:Save all of her communication with you.

Op here. I have. She's trying to turn it around on me and say I'm harassing her she's going to tell the police.

[Anonymous]

When she shows up, can't you just, you know, tell her she can't leave her kid with you until you are paid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No deadbeat sent you most of it through PayPal and sent you a nasty note. I call fake. If she needed to wait until next check, she didn’t magically find $800. Nice story though

OP here. I wish this story were fake. She sent me lots of nasty texts as well. She called me a who** and lots of nasty stuff.

Yeah, you're done doing business with her. Sorry for the kid, but no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NO way. You need to call CPS and report that. That poor little girl. Her mom isn’t taking care of her. 14 hours in the same dirty diaper and not changing her clothes is neglect.

Please call for that little girl’s sake.

+1

[Anonymous]

Are you responding to her texts and emails? Did you decide to go for the other $200, or let it go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you responding to her texts and emails? Did you decide to go for the other $200, or let it go?

This. You need to STOP responding in any way to her attempts to bait you. (And don't be fooled into thinking you are the first person she has scammed this way and then tried to turn it around to play the victim. This is a way of life for this woman, and you won't beat her at that game.)

If you feel you must respond, then just repeat the same line every time. Something like "I'm sorry you feel this way. Please do not continue to contact me unless it is to notify me of the date that you plan to deliver the outstanding payment of $200 that you owe for my child care services."