Hey luvs!
I want to take a moment circle back on Monday’s article
about being THAT Mom. Although I’m shamelessly proud of the title I still would
like to go into further detail regarding the bullets I posted. Not for
validation, simply because the stories behind them are important. Starting
today I will be doing a series called (Momma Drama) which goes into further
details regarding each of these incidents and future ones like it.This honestly should be good because as my co-peeps put it I
have the most bizarre conversations lol.
Oh so no one knows
where this scratch on my infant came from?
This was the start of my THAT Mom life with Baby O’s school
so it’s the most fitting place to start.
One day I went to pick my lovebug up (she had to be about 7 months) and
as I was gathering her things I glanced over and noticed a scratch on her neck.
This was no little scratch. It actually looked more like someone had been
digging into her skin, and I could tell it hurt and from the dried blood. Of
course, I immediately stopped what I was doing to get closer look at it. After
my inspection I ask the teacher what happened to which she informed me that
this was her first time seeing it.
SAY WHAT?
Apparently, Baby O had been shuttled from class to class
that day so her primary teacher was just seeing her. I was too alarmed by the
change in classrooms as it this happened a lot on the school infant unit. I was
surprised that I visited every infant class and NO ONE knew where the mark on
my baby had come from.
WHAT THE F*&%?
Internally PISSED yet visibly calm, I proceed to pack up the
rest of Baby O’s belongings, picked her up, and marched down to the director’s
office. When I got to her office I politely requested a moment of her and time
during which I pointed out the marks on Baby O, and let her know that while I
understand that accidents will happen while my child is in their care I was very
disturbed. As I had spoken to her staff and none of the infant teachers knew
where the marks came from. She informed me that they the team keeps a very
close eye on the children, and couldn’t believe that no one on her staff had
seen this if it happened on their watch.
To which I responded with the following...
It has become a daily tradition in our household that my
husband and Baby O take a morning photo so something like this would have been
noticed prior to her arrival had it happen at home. Not to mention I watch her
like a HAWK at home, since she is my only I actually don’t have anything else
better to do. Not to mention I bath her nightly and I can promise this was not
there. This means it happened in your care, so now that we know where this
happened let me tell you my issue once again. My issue is that NO ONE on your
staff seen this and I had to walk in a place of “care” to discover a mark on my
child. My issue is that I was not identified of this issue prior to arriving at
your facility. That shows negligence on the schools behalf in my opinion. I
don’t ever want to walk in this facility in find a mark on my child that you
all aren’t aware of...Like NEVER. I pay you all to educate and protect my child
while she is here and that is not something you feel your staff is capable of
please let me know immediately.
I could tell that my polite yet firm ton surprised the ish out of her
because every day prior my demeanor mirrored that of a ball of sunshine
lol. I left our little meeting with feeling
accomplished as I believed my point had gotten across and knowing I’d be
receiving a follow up call the next day with further clarification of what may
have happened. Since, a few teachers had already left for the day I knew she
needed to contact them and I thought it was only fair to allow her to do so.
Especially, since the bullshit story she initially tried to feed me of this
being self-inflicted wasn’t flying past me lol.
In any case I received a call bright and early the next
morning to which the truth was revealed, because Baby O led them to it. Apparently, little miss independent had been
snatching her own bibs off her neck and no one cared until...Momma found them
scratches.
Fellow HeartBEATS
Do you remember the first time you had to SPEAK UP in the name of your child? If so please share :)
