Crazy daycare demands from parents

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, thanks for listening, Mark Blazer. Chuck is off
today and so he's here every day, day in day out.
I'm talking, of course about ZAC attack. And I don't
know if you're a guy that you don't have to

(00:21):
unless you got something going with Charlie. You're young, and
I'm guessing you don't really have to hit the snooze
button much if you, I mean, you're not really setting
an alarm. I would think most days it's weird.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I used to sleep in no matter what, I could
always sleep in right up until the moment i'd have
to get up. And the older I get, the earlier
I get up, and I'm afraid if I sleep too late,
like I've wasted the day.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
I don't know how to explain it.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
So no need for an explanation, because I'm older than you,
and I absolutely understand that, because there's so much truth
to that that just begins to happen as you get
older by default. Right, So kind of what you're experiencing
is very normal I think for the average person. But
point being you, if once upon a time, I'm sure

(01:11):
at some point in your life, you've had to use
an alarm clock to wake up. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,
And so were you a snoozer, would you hit the
snooze multiple times before you finally rolled out of bed two.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Or maybe three times?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
But at most, because then I start getting paranoid that
I'm not going to wake up for the next one,
and I just have to get up, like I'm afraid
I'm gonna be late for work.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
I don't know how to. I just have to get
up after I hear that snooze.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
If I'm super duper tired, I would have, But most
of the time I'm a it rings I get up guy.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
So during that time when you utilized your alarm clock,
so the two to three times was every morning or
just here and there? Yeah, well pretty much all the time.
A bit okay, because whenever I had to, I did
mornings a couple of different stints. I did mornings during
my thirty about to be thirty eight years in this business.

(02:05):
I did mornings. Is getting up at three thirty. I
didn't do an a lot. I didn't do snooze. It
would go off, I would turn it off and then
lay there still for a little bit. I can't instantly
jump right out of bed, and there are people who
can do that and you know, but the reason that

(02:25):
they use this news is clearly because they're afraid. Well,
if I just turn it off, I'm gonna fall back asleep. Right.
But for whatever reason, I never had that happen to
me during that time. But I was not a snoozer
where I would hit it and then hit it and
hit it and hit it and keep doing that. My
wife does multiple snoozes every morning, as she does.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
How many does she do? Because I know somebody.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Eight three at least, yeah, three, and she starts. It's
gotta be a slow rise. I mean, that's the only
explanation for I've never had the conversation with her about it. Yeah,
but I do know that by and large, I'm usually
awake for that, but I don't have to really during
the school year. I'll have to get up with Stone

(03:08):
to make sure I'm awake. Most of the time i'm
in your boat, I'll just wake up because I'm old,
and so I'm thinking, all right, I got stuff I
need to get going, right, I gotta get going. And
most of the time I can't sleep in even hat.
Over the weekend, my daughter's making fun saying Dad, I'll
see you down there. Sometimes maybe I'll come down for
the like ten or ten thirty in the morning, and

(03:31):
she's like, you're sitting there and you're like taking a
nap and it's ten thirty, right, She's like, why wouldn't
you just stayed in bed if you're tired. I'm like, well,
I had to get up and start doing stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh yeah, even if it's just around the house, you
gotta stay busy. That's ten o'clock is lunchtime. Really for me,
it starts to almost kind of morph into that do right,
and then you get you take lunch, and then you
might nap a little bit. But even if I take
more than a fifteen to twenty minute napah, I'm like,
I'm not gonna sleep tonight.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
I'm gonna be up all right.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
I take a nap and it just weighs on me
for a bit, and it's just a whole thing.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah. So with my wife doing what she does, it's okay,
because you know, I will get to the point where,
especially now that the kids are off, well Stone's off
in summer, I can always I can fall back to sleep.
I just I've figured out how to do it. If
I'm not actually getting up for the day. Yet and

(04:23):
this is pretty early six five point forty five when
she starts that, So typically i'll get a little bit more.
More than half of adults are habitual snoozers, but they,
you know, average of two and a half times they're
trying to get another eleven minutes or so of sleep.
It could be feel good at the moment, according to this,
but waking up several times interrupts fragments and fragment sleep.

(04:44):
It goes on to say, here, you're gonna cycle back
and forth between light, non restorative sleep and being awake,
which isn't RESTful. I could leave you feeling tired, groggy.
You finally get out of bed, and they're just saying
it's bad for your health to do this, But more
than half of Americans do it.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, it's got to say there has to be a
lot of people.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
That do it.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Is Stone, he's he's the same age as Charlie. Is
he an early riser? Does he get out of bed? Well?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Hell no? Hell no?

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Well mine, I don't know mine is Charlie gets up?
Oh oh, I'll get up.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
It six right at six o'clock, I might as well
get up. Look at Charlie's downstairs. On his VR eating
ice cream. Oh boy, I'm like, how long have you
been up? And he's like, I don't know, a couple
of hours.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well, the VR thing is something that gets going for
Stone pretty straight away. But unless they're at the pool
like they were today or whatever. But now, man, he's
he's he loves waking up whenever he wakes up, which
is typically I think between nine and ten am. Right now,
I'm staring down the barrel of a teenager who you know,

(05:51):
think about it. They're going to start, you know, Charlie
will be in the same boat. But they they're they're
entering puberty and then there's going to be you know,
they'll be really really tired and all that stuff all
the time. So I don't say anything about it. I'm
not like, let's go, yeah, let's go go go go
go wake auk. But I would not do that. I
can't do that. I don't either. I can't do it

(06:11):
to him.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
I did hear Charlie the past, It's had to be
the last two or three weeks.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Twice heard his voice crack h oh. And he didn't know.
I don't know if he understood what was going on.
But I looked at him like, oh boy, you're.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Like, here comes start happening, Here comes the storm. Yeah, ah,
you know what happens to the best of us, as
they say speaking to him. So, you've had to utilize
daycares over the years, correct, And I told you we've
been so fortunate. We've been so blessed between my mother
in law and my mom, and we have not had

(06:46):
to do that. We're past all of that now. We
didn't do that with Josephine, and you know she's nineteen
and now Stone's eleven. We're way past. We didn't have
to do that part of when he was younger. I
was unemployed during that time or during that time I
worked later, so we had opposite schedules and I could
be home with him in the morning and so on.
We've been so blessed with that. But I know you

(07:07):
said that you've had to utilize.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, luckily enough, and I could say this with no worries.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
His mom helped.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
It worked in a daycare, Okay, so him being there,
he was always there with his mom, right, So it
wasn't exactly like drop off and you don't see mom
and dad all day type of thing.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Tell me, if you have heard some of these things. Now,
these are daycare providers that revealed the most unhinged demands
from parents.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Oh, I've heard a lot. I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Now. There are plenty of people who are within the
sound of my voice who had to utilize daycare. As
a matter of fact, it is it. Absolutely. I think
it borders almost on what should be illegal what they charge.
But look, they get away with it, and a lot
of them. You are on a waiting list if you

(08:01):
want to get into some of the good ones. Yep.
And it's ridiculous what they charge. It's literally like a
rent payment monthly for one or two kids. It is
staggering what is charged. And I'm unfamiliar with most of
that other than just reading about it, because I never
had to experience. I was blessed enough or we didn't.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
A lot of it's insurance because you have kids and
a lot of protective and you end up paying into
that when you.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
But I think people by a large feel because they're
paying that kind of money, maybe they feel entitled. That
would prompt them to have these most unhinged demands that
they listed here. They start with, they started with as
they call on here, these j'all droppers. One of the

(08:49):
demands was mix all of their food with breast milk.
And then this is hilarious. In parentheses, it says, didn't
provide breast milk.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Okay, now we got a problem.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Well, who's doing that? Somebody that you found out that
works there that is also breastfeeding. You go, hey, uh,
can you mix this with Can I borrow some of
your breast milk from my kid? Would you I didn't
pump this morning?

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Or if you can order that online, but it can't
be from a reputable source to get breast milk.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Oh, I didn't even think about that because I'm going else.
Would you get it? Somebody that works there? You go
that maybe at one point offered it up and said, hey,
if you're ever in a pinch you're running late or
whatever I can. But that's just freaky, right, that's freaky.
Ask any mom who you're like, hey, what what do
you think of your kid having you know, your friend's
breast milk for a supplement that day they probably had shudder.

(09:43):
You go, oh, are you serious? Like I'm not having
my kid with Another one was I had a parent
ask me to count how many string beings sir, child
ate at lunch.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
That doesn't even.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
I saw some of these that go, oh, this can't
be real.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
I've seen sober for on good authority that people would
be like, hey, we paid for a kid to go
to daycare, and like every day gets juice for at
a snack. Juice isn't really brand name, so you know,
I don't really want him to take you should upgrade
your juice and whatnot because our son needs name.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Brand daycare providers revealing the most unhinged demands. Here's another one.
Imagine that these are happening where you take your child
or grandchild that you know of. If you're listening right now,
this one, I think. I was just like, you've got
to be kidding me. This has to be made up.
Child had digestion issues. The mom asked them to chew

(10:46):
food for him then feed it to him like a bird.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
What is she a bird? I've never heard that.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
I was like, that can't be real. There's no way
that's real. One time a parent ask us to her
halfway through the day saying her child was sick so
she could leave work. So they said, hey, can you
call me? Like they're dropping their kid off in the
morning and they go, hey, will you call me around
noon and say my kid's sick so I can leave.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Couldn't you have a friend do that?

Speaker 1 (11:18):
And they're going, I could see the they're going, We'll
do that. It's gonna be an extra twenty five dollars.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Twenty five dollars.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm not participating in your charade. I will not be
a part of that.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
If they ask me, I will roll over on you
and get you in trouble, but I will call fine.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
These are some of the crazy demands, unhinged as they
call them. We weren't allowed to label anything with the
toddlers name because the mom didn't want her to get kidnapped.
So by labeling it putting the name there, I guess
she felt like it up the chances it elevated the
chances of her kid getting.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
I don't even understand that one. Uh, they know your name,
not they're gonna take you.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Had a parent give us a chucky doll. This was
first day of school. Mom said if her child acted up,
to just show her the chucky dolls, you'd stop chucky.
And the girl's like, ah, like you better behave.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
As much as you know.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
I love horror movies. I would never do that to
my child or any other one. Uh.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
They had a parent who wanted to start toilet training
her son at three months old.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Three months that's not a thing.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
And they're going, who no, no, no, no, no, no, We're
not gonna be And then had a dad storm into
a classroom demand that we not allow his son to
play with dolls or dress up clothes while at school,
because that's for girls, not boys. He went on to say,
here's a thing with that. If a parent ask you
to not do something like that, sure, I guess just

(12:41):
short of the kid losing his mind because you see
him with it and you go yank it out of
his hand. But there's a diplomatic way to approach.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Him, right, Yeah, busting in and scared all the kids
might not be the way to right.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
I've seen you before work. I got something to talk about.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, that's about it.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
That's what you'd have to do.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's not a big deal exactly anyways. So those are
some of the most unhinged demands from parents at daycare.
What nightmare situations and God love you if you're somebody
who deals with daycare, and by deals with I mean
pays these crazy prices and has had to go through
this or are going through it. God love you and

(13:17):
God bless you is all I can say.