SO I am sitting here at the computer, sipping on my morning coffee, enjoying the fact that my puppy pretty much slept through the night (he woke up 10 minutes before my alarm, and I ignored him
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I walk into my babysitters. BUT only because she has told me I can do so. And I still ring the doorbell before I walk in. Now, she also has a mud room that is the entrance we use and I never go beyond that. I just loiter in the mud room until she comes down to us. I don't walk into her "home" beyond the mud room. I have come in and she has called to me to come ahead upstairs, but I don't venture into her home uninvited, though I'm sure she'd be fine with that. I prefer to stay the over-courteous parent.
I WOULD mention it to the parent. I say this as a parent. I would want to know and I would want to know your parameters so that I didn't cross them and make our relationship awkward. I would also want to keep you as my day care provider and if I or my mother was doing something inappropriate and you quit with us I would have wanted the chance to rectify whatever was happening.
Funny... as I wrote the entry, I was fairly certain that you would read it and comment :)
If I told someone to just walk in that would be different, agreed. We do not have a porch, so when you walk in, you are in my house on the landing. However, if I told you to walk in I would mean YOU, not your mom, dad, sisters, brother, aunt, cousin, etc.
Thanks... I think I will just mention it and not stew :P
ONE MONTH until the retreat!!!! WOW!!! It will be great to see you!!!!
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I WOULD mention it to the parent. I say this as a parent. I would want to know and I would want to know your parameters so that I didn't cross them and make our relationship awkward. I would also want to keep you as my day care provider and if I or my mother was doing something inappropriate and you quit with us I would have wanted the chance to rectify whatever was happening.
Again, that is just me.
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If I told someone to just walk in that would be different, agreed. We do not have a porch, so when you walk in, you are in my house on the landing.
However, if I told you to walk in I would mean YOU, not your mom, dad, sisters, brother, aunt, cousin, etc.
Thanks... I think I will just mention it and not stew :P
ONE MONTH until the retreat!!!! WOW!!! It will be great to see you!!!!
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