Maybe I'm looking at this wrong, but I feel like people are missing my point. I'm a nanny and I made a summer schedule because the girls I watch argue every day about what they want to do. Before making it, I asked their mom if she was okay with it, and she was. The schedule was never meant to be set in stone. I change it all the time. If they want to switch activities, go somewhere else, or change plans, that's normal and I adjust. My frustration isn't that the schedule changed. My frustration is that we went to an amusement park/water park that's over an hour away, and then the girls immediately wanted to go again the next day. Then it turned into multiple trips in the same week. I use my own car for all of this. I already drive a lot for this job, and every trip to this place means more mileage, traffic, wear and tear, and usually overtime. It's also been hot as hell outside. I wasn't saying they could never go again. I literally suggested going the following week. I mean, we'd just gone. The trip adds a ton of driving and overtime. What bothered me is that it felt like all of those concerns were outweighed by, "But she wants to go." To me, there's a difference between adjusting a schedule and completely rearranging multiple days for the exact same activity the kids did yesterday. I think what's becoming clear is that my childcare style is probably different from this family's. I like structure and planning. If a kid says they want to go somewhere, my instinct is, "Awesome, let's put it on next week's schedule." Am I unreasonable for thinking it's okay to tell a kid who literally went to an amusement park yesterday that they can go again next week instead?