Best (worst) parent excuses you’ve heard.

What’s the best or worst excuses parents have given you?

One family at my center takes the cake. Their child puked EVERYWHERE and when he came back a few days later they said “he wasn’t sick. He puked because you gave him oranges.” So we put oranges on the allergy list and didn’t give them to him. Same thing happens a few months later but this time “he wasn’t sick. He puked because you gave him milk.” They tried to ask us not to call when he pukes anymore because “it’s just food sensitivity.” That was shut down immediately. One day he comes at snack time and I prepared him a separate snack that didn’t have oranges and the mom got upset that we were making him different food and he felt “left out.” I showed her the allergy chart where we wrote his orange and Milk intolerance and she said “I don’t remember saying that.”

Another parent tried to tell us their child’s rash was “faded red marker” from the art project they did last night. It was blistered…