My failed attempt

So I failed my attempt at watching children.

I had posted my ad on craigslist looking for a child to watch, I got tons of responses but one stuck out to me. It was a mom of two, looking for someone to watch her children Monday,Wednesday, Thursday and Friday every week.

Her children were the EXACT same age as Mackenzie and Madison so I thought it would be perfect, I was wrong.

Her oldest daughter kept hitting my kids repeatedly. She would hit them in their mouths, and she even hit me. She would back-talk and just argue with Mackenzie about everything. It was ridiculous. When I asked her to sit in the corner, for time out, she told me no. I can't physically make this child sit in the corner.

Not just that but the younger daughter bites and bit Madison's hand when they were playing. Yesterday she cried for 2.5 hours straight, without reason.

It was just a bad situation. Mackenzie refuses to eat while they are here and she won't take her naps. 3 years old is too young to stop taking naps. (If you're not a parent please don't tell me that it's an okay age for them to stop, you honestly don't know.) Mackenzie also has started regressing on her potty training since the older girl wasn't potty trained. She has wet the bed two times in the past 3 days and has started 'messing' in her pants. (She has been perfectly potty trained for the past week and a half.)

I sat down with the mom yesterday and told her that I won't be able to watch them anymore but I will watch them up through next Friday to give her time to find a new sitter. She said she understood, but I could tell she was upset. I just told her I had to put my family first and it wasn't a good situation for my children to be in.