The damn sunblock!

Personally Grandmama123 I would have told your DD " to go stuff herself" .
I look after my 3 DGC on a regular basis . I have never once been given instructions or criticised by my DDiL for something I have either done or forgot to do. Is she perfect? If she doesn't trust your capabilities tell her to do it all herself . You are not bloody superwoman ! I look after mine to help DDiL and my DS so they can work, rest and sometimes play and I would not take kindly to being "told off" .

Your daughter in being unreasonable...and a bit of a special snowflake.
If suncream is such a massive deal for her then her able bodied 8 year olds should be able to apply it with instruction.
I hope you don't find me intrusive but can I ask where she was during all this? And we're you paid?

The sun block issue is a common one. Usually parents are asked to apply a coat before sending the child off to school/activity centre. The staff will neither apply their own cream (due to possible allergies), nor smear the child with his own (due to physical touching.) The best way is to squirt a blob into the child's hands and let him do it himself.

You could contact your daughter and discuss coming up with a plan prioritising the jobs she wants you to carry out. Has this ever happened before over a different issue? If not, I can assure you the sun cream problem is a highly emotive one with parents everywhere, so you are not alone.

I can only say ".Poor you." What an awful mess. Chilling and a chat over tea.does.seem a.good idea.

Well said phoenix. If you and your daughter have reached an agreement about payment, I expect the hourly rate is much less than she'd have to pay a nanny or childminder. I suspect she would find it difficult to get someone who'd do 12 hour days. She wouldn't find any day care open at 6.45, much less providing staff to help get three children up and organised at that time.
The sun block issue isn't all down to you either, the club the boys went to should have been ensuring all the children were properly re-slathered as the day went on.
Maybe your daughter can make alternative arrangements and you could become an ordinary grandparent. You could help out once a week, free of charge but for the rest of the time, the parents pay a professional.

Grandmama123 I agree that they should be able to do it themselves, and if it so much a part of the routine then perhaps they might have said "gran, what about our sunblock?"

As for the comments about "paid employee", well, if you really ARE a paid employee, rather than freelance, then you entitled to holiday pay, sick pay, and from February next year, a pension partly paid for by your employer!?

Sorry, but I think you daughter needs to (using the awful phrase) get over herself!

Are you paid to babysit for her? That's a bit odd isn't it? Is there anyone else in the house when they get up, who could help you?

Are you in this country. Whereabouts were they to get sunburnt today? It's been cloudy on and off.

I totally agree that boys of 8 ought to be able to apply sunblock themselves, particularly if they are out on an excursion or at camp. They should have been reapplying it during the day. As neither you or their mother were there to supervise during the day, I don't think it's your fault at all. Were the camp employees not supervising the application of sunblock? I don't think that your DD should have reacted as she did.
My 6 year old GS got sunburnt feet while at the beach after my DD forgot to apply the sunscreen. She just didn't think about his feet!

Poor you! I would phone tomorrow and say you are sorry you have had a disagreement and suggest talking it over over a cuppa some time. Don't let it escalate. Hope it settles!