#but like it’s not my fault you 1) have heavy furniture without protective pads on hardwood and two young children | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

grichel · 5 days ago

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it’s gotten to a point with my bosses where i’m very frustrated because i disagree with a couple of parenting decisions they’ve made, but i never said anything because it’s not wanted not my place etc, but now like when the kids are acting in ways that i think are products of those parenting choices, they sometimes get mad at me for like not stopping them. and it’s like i’m doing my best to treat these symptoms, but there’s larger problems behind this that i can’t even begin to tackle.

#yesterday they got mad at me bc baby1 during a tantrum dragged baby2’s bed across the floor and it scratched the hardwood #obviously when that happened i came upstairs and stopped him as soon as possible #but like it’s not my fault you 1) have heavy furniture without protective pads on hardwood and two young children #2) they should never have shared a bedroom in the first place #3) there’s no safe place to put baby1 in timeout when he needs to and bc they’re very lax with him he has been acting out a lot #i’m not like mister authority guy of course but like you also can’t just let kids do whatever they want forever and not expect them #to have tantrums #they also got mad at me because baby2 has been ripping pages out of his books on purpose the last few days #i have been gently trying to stop him every time i catch him doing it #but also not registering this as a big deal because THEY always say it’s not a big deal and don’t reprimand the kids for doing it #so like?? i get that he’s doing it more now and not on accident #but if i should be doing more than gently stopping him when i catch him then that’s like a policy change #idk i’m just really frustrated bc last night when they mentioned the floor scrapes to me #they were like ''maybe baby1 just doesn’t need quiet time anymore bc he’s been having tantrums''#and it’s like yea ok let’s reward him and tell him tantrums work #he DOES calm down when he has his space to himself #the problem is that they’re not ready to share a room #and my bosses have the capacity in their house to give them separate bedrooms #and yes there are benefits to sharing a room but so far the problems outweigh them imo #anyways it’s not my fault you chose to have hardwoods in your house and didn’t babyproof the KIDS ROOM #like of course they scraped the floor #lay some rugs down anchor the furniture put pads on the feet AT LEAST #whatever TGIF and my bosses are out of town til afternoon tuesday

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