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[quote=Anonymous]Before anyone jumps on me, I'm not worried I could be in trouble. I'm doing nothing wrong. I bust my butt at work and never do anything I wouldn't do if mom wasn't looking over my shoulder. Anyway: I care for three children. One is an infant and the other two are 6 and 8.

The 8 year old is constantly watching me and questioning what I do. The other day I was cooking some scrambled eggs for the 6 year old and the 8 year old runs up to me and says, "[Baby] pooped! I can smell it! Change her!" I tell him I'm just going to finish cooking his sister's eggs and then I will change her. He says, "No! NOW! SHE SMELLS!" I tell him to calm down and that I'm going to do it in less than a minute and he says, "I'm telling my mom about this! YOU'RE NOT TAKING CARE OF MY SISTER!"

He's kind of a high strung kid, he worries a lot. I know I'm doing a good job, but it stresses me out.

The other day he told me, "My mom is upset about the scratches you left on the fridge." I was confused and asked him what he meant and he said his mom asked him how the scratches on their new fridge got there and he told her he saw me washing it with the wrong cleaner. I've....never cleaned the outside of their fridge. With anything, ever. They don't have a different nanny or housekeeper either. I told him I've never washed the fridge and asked why he said that. He just kept reiterating that he was "really sure" he saw me clean it and that I made the scratches.

The other day I gave his sister a cookie and he said he was going to tell him mom about how I was giving her too many snacks and refused to eat lunch unless I took the cookie away because she's only allowed to have X amount of snacks a day. However, I made the choice to let her have a cookie while I was making lunch because we had walked to a farm that was 1.5 miles away and she had gotten a lot of exercise.

All day he takes issues with things I'm doing. He questions whether or not I've buckled his sisters into the car properly, whether or not I'm looking at my phone too much (I was checking the weather forecast FYI), whether or not I'm allowed to tell them what to do. It just wears me out sometimes! [/quote]

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