Childcare Workers Confess The Weirdest Requests They’ve Ever Gotten From Parents

colorstoobright:

I had one dad who made us force his kid to do any activity that wasn’t arts & crafts (which was the kid’s favorite, and he was talented in it too!). The reason? The dad is homophobic and was afraid that knitting was making his son gay.

lexi1552:

They called it Smooth Time.Every evening, I would give their 6 year old a bath, and afterwards I would have to rub petroleum jelly over his. Entire. Body.

babysitwallace:

Had a woman call me last minute and then “forget” to pay me. She had the nerve to try it more than once??? And was SHOCKED AND APPALLED when I told her I would never babysit for her again.

saintpurrtrick:

Not exactly an unreasonable thing I was asked to do, but when I was a camp counselor at an arts camp in high school, I got in trouble for tapping a child on the shoulder who had fallen asleep during a performance. His mother was FURIOUS and demanded I be fired (I wasn’t).

JoanneSmith567:

At summer camp, a mum wanted me to braid her kids hair every morning. She saw in the photos over the summer that this didn’t happen – hell there were 6/7 of us looking after 30+ 5-9yr olds, that wasn’t gonna happen.