Kathleen S.

Kathleen worked with us for a total of 12 days in January, 2013. While Kathleen interviewed very well, I'm afraid the shine wore off very quickly. During the interview she presented herself as professional, polite, intelligent and generally seemed to have sound judgement. She said all the right things and my wife and I were quite impressed. My wife and I very tediously explained what we needed and expected from her. We also, very tediously, explained that if this was not going to work for her she should let us know in advance and we would make other arrangements. In the end, she accepted the position unconditionally. Shortly after she was hired, the problems began. She seemed to allow our daughters to frustrate her throughout the day to the point where we were having daily discipline issues with our girls. Our daughters are not angels by any stretch of the imagination, but this was completely uncharacteristic of them. On top of that, her own child care issues, which she assured us would not be a problem, became a problem. We did not know this because she failed to communicate with us, though we again very tediously explained that we wanted open and honest communication. The end came when on a Tuesday, through our 10 year old, we found out that she was planning on leaving at the end of a week. But for our daughter overhearing Kathleen's conversation with her own daughter's daycare teacher in a grocery store that Tuesday evening, we suspect that she would not have notified us until that Friday that she would not be returning on Monday. Attempting to cover her tracks Tuesday evening, she sent my wife a series of excuse ridden text messages around 9:00 p.m. In the end we just told her not to return the next day, sadly disappointed. While I take no pleasure in posting such a discouraging review of Kathleen, my wife and I feel that what she did was at best dishonest, irresponsible, and unprofessional. By posting this we hope to save another unassuming family a great deal of stress and consternation.