1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Somebody asked childcare workers on TikTok to share the most 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: cringe worthy things that parents have asked for. 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 2: Here are some of the best responses. 4 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: Also, if you're a childcare worker, text us four one 5 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: oh six one, call us eight A eight three four 6 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: to three one o six one. Well, one person said, 7 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: I had a parent asked me to count how many 8 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: string beans her child ate at lunch. 9 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,240 Speaker 3: Oh, I believe sring beans. 10 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 2: There's nothing else going on. 11 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 4: Well, I never worked in childcare, but I was a 12 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 4: babysitter and I used to babysit these twins. And then 13 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 4: parents were very very strict, but they were never really home. 14 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 3: It was either me or nanny that was taking care 15 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 3: of their children. 16 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 4: And she wanted me to measure out the peanut butter 17 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 4: and the jelly and cut off the crust to make 18 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 4: sure that there was the appropriate amount of peanut butter 19 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 4: and jelly was like half of a tea spoon. 20 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 3: Or something like that. Oh whoa. 21 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 4: And then I had to count out anything that they ate. 22 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 4: You can never give them a handful. It had to 23 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 4: be six, or it had to be three, and then 24 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 4: they'd only get twenty three minutes of TV time, like 25 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 4: how do you come up with this time my twenty 26 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 4: three I don't know. 27 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 3: She has commercials Trent TV after and the commercials that 28 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 3: turn it back on. I don't. 29 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 4: I mean, this was it's really insane. They watched They 30 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 4: were also very rich. They had an elevator in their house. 31 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 4: Lot so wild experience. So I can only imagine what 32 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 4: parents are regularly asking for in their schools. 33 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 5: You know how you get rich. Twenty three minutes screen. 34 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 3: Time and six peanuts. That's fair. 35 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: Somebody asks people on TikTok to share stories from childcare 36 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: workers about ridiculous, unhinged things that parents have asked for. 37 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: This one's ridiculous. It said, I had a child with 38 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: digestion issues and the mom asked me to chew his 39 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: food for him and then feed it to him. 40 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 4: No, no way, that's no, no no, like a baby bird. 41 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 5: That is too much. 42 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,559 Speaker 4: I know that parents might do that, but to ask 43 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 4: somebody that is not, I don't know. 44 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,919 Speaker 3: I don't feel like I do that. It's like different DNA. 45 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 5: As a parent, I have never chewed my daughter's food 46 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 5: for her and then put it in her mouth. 47 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: That's the only if I were a parent, that's the 48 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:52,639 Speaker 1: only way I would do it forever. 49 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 2: They're like a little baby bird. Yeah, forever, seventeen years old. 50 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 5: I can. 51 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: You can go over for Thanksgiving. They got a whole 52 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: family and everything else. You know, their adult grown, still 53 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: my kid, and I'm gonna baby bird them. 54 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 3: I'm taking mother hend to a new level. You don't 55 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 3: need to chop up my stake. Just go ahead and spa. 56 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: Could you imagine being a childcare worker and someone asks 57 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: you to chew up the kid's food and feed it 58 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: to them. 59 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 4: I mean, I hope I said no, that's all you 60 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 4: can say. That's not sanitary. 61 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 5: Your child's clearly not ready for solid foods. Let's stop 62 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 5: pushing the milestones. 63 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 3: Okay, he's a blender, Just blend it. 64 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 2: A genius idea. 65 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: One parent called a childcare worker and asked if they 66 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: could call her halfway through the day and tell her 67 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: that her child was. 68 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 2: Sick so she could leave work. 69 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 4: I don't think that that's that big of a deal. 70 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 4: Every once in a while, you call in favors, you 71 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 4: make friends with the. 72 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,959 Speaker 2: Little be like, I will pay extra. 73 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you have to pay extra for that. 74 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 2: Lady's gonna be I'm watching your kid at that time. 75 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 5: I'll still play it for a full day, but I 76 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:55,239 Speaker 5: need to get out of here. 77 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, can I board the kid overnight? 78 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:00,040 Speaker 2: I want to go half. 79 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 6: Turns out I might be in Vegas by new We're 80 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 6: going over some of the most unhinged things that parents 81 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 6: have asked childcare workers. 82 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: One person responded and said a dad stood on top 83 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: of the cubbies and did a backflip oh dope off 84 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: of them. In response to me saying that this is 85 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 1: a children's class, he said, he pays enough intuition that 86 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: he can do whatever he wants. So he's a kid basically, 87 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: so he wanted to attend the class or something. 88 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 2: I don't know the context of it, but that's still weird. 89 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 5: I didn't know Benson Boone had his kids, and I 90 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 5: love it. 91 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 3: That's what you think. 92 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 4: I like. And people wonder why dating is so hard 93 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 4: no matter how old you are, grow up. 94 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: Another childcare worker said that once a mom masked if 95 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: I could serve divorce paper to her husband. 96 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 2: Hey, that's convenience. 97 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 3: That is you get tipped man. 98 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 6: Yeah, because you can't do it yourself legally, so you 99 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 6: gotta have somebody else. 100 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 5: Why not have the middleman do it? 101 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: The person said, they said, no, I would absolutely Yeah. 102 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 5: Five bucks. Yeah, potster, your career is a process server. 103 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 3: Can you give me popcorn to go with that? 104 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: Another person said that they had a parent give them 105 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: a chucky doll. Oh, it was the first day of 106 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: school and a mom said if her child acted up, 107 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: to just show the kid the chucky doll and it 108 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: would stop. 109 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 5: Wow, that's a level. You quit that job. You don't 110 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 5: know what has happened up to this point, do you? 111 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 3: Or do you say thank you? 112 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 5: What? No? 113 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: You tossed the chucky doll out? 114 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 4: Well? I mean if their kids acting up and the 115 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 4: chucky doll works and nothing else did, I mean, you. 116 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 3: Might as well keep it as a last resort. Is 117 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 3: that really that bad? 118 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 5: You could teach your kid how not to act up. 119 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: There's a trend going viral of childcare workers sharing the 120 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: most unhinged things that parents have asked them for. Somebody 121 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 1: texted in right now at four one o six one 122 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,479 Speaker 1: and said, I was asked to test the temperature of 123 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: reheated breast milk by drinking it. 124 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, what did they ask you this one? 125 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 2: Please tell what you said? Yeah? 126 00:04:59,080 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: As you? 127 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 5: How else do you test it? 128 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 4: Yeah? Are you the mom that asked that. I just 129 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 4: I'm really curious, that's what was going through your mind. 130 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 5: How else do you test it? 131 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 2: You don't test it, you just don't or use it thermometer, 132 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 2: trip it on your arm, you put it on the back. 133 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 5: Heah, that is how you actually test it. 134 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 2: But also it's delicious. I've never had it. 135 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, why did you have it? 136 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 1: I had a coworker once and I was joking with her, 137 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 1: asking if I could try some, and. 138 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 2: Then she brought in some her Yeah, is that not? 139 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: Like? 140 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 3: I don't know? 141 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: Like did She was sure there would be an HR 142 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: complaint today if I had done. 143 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 5: Did you feel like you were taking milk from a baby? 144 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 2: Yes? 145 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 4: I did, but it was really good though interesting. Yeah, 146 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 4: and I wonder if I think it all tastes different? 147 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 3: What are we? I don't know. I tried it. 148 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: You guys gotta try it. There's nobody in this office 149 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: is I would try my. 150 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 3: Own, but I'm ok. I think I'm good. 151 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 2: I don't need to try. 152 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 3: I just go get the milk on the street. 153 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 5: That's that's weird. But drinking milk from a cow isn't. 154 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: When I that's why I think we should be drinking 155 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: human milk. That's why I'm looking for expectant mothers to start. 156 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, like a dairy farm, but like a human dairy farmer. 157 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: You seemed just all hooked up to the little things, reading, 158 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: reading a book or whatever. 159 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 3: You know. 160 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 4: I think in the UK or somewhere they were actually 161 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 4: opening up an ice cream shop that was breast milk 162 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 4: ice ice cream. Yeah, google it. I've reported on this story, 163 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 4: and I think you Bill said the same thing. 164 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,600 Speaker 5: I don't want I don't want any of that. 165 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,280 Speaker 1: If you would like to be involved in my human 166 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: dairy farm, hit me up. 167 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 2: I really start that. 168 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 3: You can't say it like that.