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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here with an update. It took several days, but I did finally get more of an explanation from DD about why she suddenly doesn't like the babysitter. For days she just kept saying, I don't like the babysitter anymore.  Finally we had a relaxed talk about it one day on our way home from school.  It turned out it was completely my faux pas.

The day that it happened, I'd asked the sitter to pick dd up from school, which she's done before.  But I always usually give DD a heads up if someone else is picking her up, and that day I was so crazy busy, I forgot to.  It was also the first time I had the sitter pick her up in my car (usually she walks back).  And it was also the first time I had her take her somewhere else after school (the library) instead of straight home, and also the first time she tried to take her to the potty at a place that wasn't in our home.

So DD was understandably, completely freaked out - first by the surprise of me not picking her up, and having the sitter pick her up instead, and then seeing the sitter drive my car, and then not being taken home after school as usual and taken somewhere else, and then she felt uncomfortable when she tried to take her to the potty.  I guess in her head, it was just like the sitter showed up unannounced and tried to take her away, and I was nowhere in sight.  DD said, "Mommy, you should have told me.  Next time you have to tell me."  I apologized profusely and promised her I'd tell her or the teacher next time.

So mystery solved.  I never brought it up with the sitter, apart from asking how it went with DD that day.

Thanks all for the input.[/quote]

Oh whatever, like your 3 year old would have even remembered you telling her. I guess we know who is in charge at your house.[/quote]

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