Taking care of children is not an easy job, and childcare workers should definitely be applauded (and paid more) for making sure that the children they're watching over are healthy, safe, and nurtured while their parents are away.
That said, if you are or were a childcare worker, we want to know what parents have said or done that left you totally horrified, shocked, or completely dumbfounded.
Maybe you work in a daycare and had parents who didn't pick up their kid until two hours past closing because it was lobster night at the local seafood buffet and they didn't want to miss it.
Maybe you were a babysitter and noticed that the parents were really into the nonbathing thing and would literally leave their kids crusty, stinky, and dirty because humans are supposed to be ~natural~.
Maybe you worked with a family in which one parent was having an affair (maybe even both of them were), and you simply decided to mind your business even though the whole time, you were giving major side-eye.
Or perhaps you worked as a nanny and the parents relied on you to basically raise their kids — cooking, feeding, bathing, tutoring, disciplining — so that they could live their lives pretending that they weren't parents at all.
