Tomorrow morning, our son goes to a new daycare. We're all very nervous and scared and excited - except for our son, who right now is treating tonight like any other.
It takes a certain level of trust to leave your pride and joy with strangers - a fact that had not hit me until the last week or so, when it became apparent that a change in child care was due.
While I was constitutionally required to call our now-former babysitter a "saint" for her deeds during the time our son was in her care, the fact that she is listed in the line above as "now-former" gets me off the hook. Besides, she wasn't my friend in the first place - she was my wife's. So I don't have a whole lot of interest in continuing to figuratively blow smoke up her butt.
Although I'm grateful for all that she did - especially on the cheap - I don't think I'm talking out of turn when I state that our child care situation could have been better over the last two-plus years. Many times, especially recently, we were left scurrying for a backup on short notice. And our son was the only child she watched (other than her own), which led to being regaled with stories about "your son did this" and "your son did that" (i.e., showing favoritism toward her own children). Which is to be expected, I suppose - a lot of parents have a sort of tunnel vision that shields their eyes from any wrongdoing on the part of their children. I don't doubt that the boy can do some fairly mean things when he wants to - after all, he has my wife's temper - but I don't really think he did them in a vacuum, you know?
At any rate, tomorrow begins a new era in his child care; hopefully we'll be able to stick with this daycare (an actual, licensed daycare where there won't be any favoritism toward the other kids! No stairs where he'll slide down them on his stomach and get carpet burns on his knee! etc. etc. etc.) until he reaches school age. My fingers are crossed, anyway, and if you get a second, if you could cross yours for me as well, I'd really appreciate it.
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