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[quote=Anonymous]Hello all!

I just began a new position last week  with three charges, we will call them by their ages and gender doesn't matter in this case. 
They are 6, 3 and 5mo.

6 has three activities in the AM at a community center at which the family is well known, two of those are outdoor sports and the other is swimming which 3 has at th same time
Directly next to 6. Both 6 and 3 are AWESOME listeners alone but together - not so much.

They (6&3) know all of the coaches, parents and life guards well.

I have a schedule on my phone of their activities and fallow it accordingly. Yesterday we missed one activity all together because 6 vanished after the first activity. One of the activities is out in the open and on all other days that there aren't lessons are free range for anyone to play on...the coaches don't like kids playing around their during their lessons(understandable). 6 is very definite when I tell
Him he can't play there when it's not his time and will not listen to me. The coaches see the power struggle and allow 6 to do as he pleases (these are 18 year olds - so I get it) but it makes my job impossible ....

Because 6 won't listen, 3 also is becoming more defiant and with all of these people familiar with the kids around I get dirty looks and 'help' from the coaches and parents - really they just enable the child and shoot me dirty looks thus leading to me having no control and looking pathetic and helpless and begging the kids to listen...

After these lessons that take place in the morning, both older kids have school or camp so we have to rush after swimming to get 3 to school for lunch and after that get 6 to camp while he is eating lunch in my new car although that's a whole another thing...

I'm just overall stressed, crunched for time, disrespected and in listened to (by the kids) and I'm unsure of how to approach this with the parents....

Excuse any grammar or typo errors - I'm using my phone

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