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OT: How would you approach this?
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I would simply and politely tell her that you have become increasingly concerned about how difficult a full day away from your home environment is for your daughter. Explain that you have to put your daughter’s special needs first, so you won’t be able to watch her children in her home during the break. Tell her that she is welcome to bring her children over to your house and you’ll babysit as usual; if not, she should make other arrangements.
I’d definitely tell her immediately since she may decide not to use you as a sitter anymore. This way, you will have given her what amounts to a two-week notice. Having a son on the spectrum, I know how necessary it is sometimes to work your daily routine around your special needs child.
I agree, let her know that you’ve got evaluation for your daughter because she’s having problems with XYZ, that one of the biggest challenges right now is taking her to another house for the day like you do there, and that until you’ve been able to work with specialists and therapists and your daughter you need all day babysitting to happen at your house, beginning with spring break.
(HUGS) Not easy to get across to her I’m sure, but completely reasonable!
If your husband is laid off, would it be possible for him to keep your daughter at home while you are over there baby sitting? And give her the heads up that bringing her over just isn’t working because of her special needs, and that she either needs to bring them over to your home once your husband has another job, or she’ll need to look elsewhere.
I don’t have any advice but will pray for you and your circumstance. I know what it is like to try to make a decision, only to have that decision bring on other decisions, and so on.
Can you put the word out, say for instance at the library, that you are looking for other children to babysit? I don’t know the area you live in but it took me about 2 or 3 weeks to find children to watch and MOST people expect to bring their kids to the baby sitters house not the other way around, as you have been doing, unless advertised.
I learned this the hard way; don’t jump through hoops for others and have your family suffer. Somehow it always works out we just have to put our faith in God.
That’s true. Most people do have to take their children to somewhere, whether it is someone’s home or a day care center. It may not be her preference to take them elsewhere, but it makes far more sense to take them to you, at least for the sort term, until she finds someone willing to come to her home. That would give you time to find a couple of kids to watch at your place if that’s what you decide to do.
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