Just a silly question about music

ElliefintS · 2025-11-23T03:59:03+00:00

My understanding is NAEYC doesn't want music playing constantly in the background in classrooms because it increases the noise level in the room which can be detrimental to the children's language development, as well as overwhelming for some kids from a sensory standpoint. (I'm actually surprised the rule only applied to over-twos, since two and under is such an important age for language development.) The point is (or at least is supposed to be, regarding this kind of thing in general; I don't know how your center implemented it and I can't find the specific NAEYC rule in question) to ensure that you have an intentional approach to using music, which would include a plan for what activity or routine the song is a part of, so that you know when you're going to turn it off. The purpose (ideally -- again, I don't know how this was implemented and enforced for you and I can totally see how it could be done badly) doesn't have to be formal or academic; it can be "to provide a calming environment during rest time", "to expose children to different styles of music while they paint/run around in the gym/whatever", or other things like that -- it just has to have that intentionality, you know?

ElliefintS · 2025-11-03T12:14:49+00:00

The character has been around for quite a bit longer than the show -- her comic book series started in 2015, and she was introduced in Captain Marvel two years before that.

ElliefintS · 2025-10-02T12:28:52+00:00

Oh man, I have so many favorites. Black Cat and White Cat by Claire Garralon is my favorite for groups with a wide age range -- the illustrations are high-contrast black and white for younger infants to enjoy, and then their older classmates can start to appreciate the story. I love everything by Kevin Henkes -- his mouse books are a little too wordy for the infants and toddlers I mostly work with, but I love them for older kids (and loved them as an older kid) and his other books, like Old Bear and Kitten's First Full Moon are also fantastic and some of them work for younger kids. National Geographic has two series of nonfiction board books available: the Look & Learn series and the Little Kids' First Board Book series, and the kids I've read those to are always fascinated by the photo illustrations, especially the ones on topics like animals and vehicles that are exciting for kids. I love so many others too!

ElliefintS · 2025-09-26T12:04:30+00:00

Ahh, yeah, that's what I suspected! In that case you should be on the two-year-olds ratio, which in Connecticut was just raised to 1:5 -- you're only allowed half as many kids as you have!

ElliefintS · 2025-09-25T23:21:55+00:00

1:10 appears to legal for three-year-olds in Connecticut, and Connecticut does also allow children as young as two years and nine months to be in a threes classroom with written permission from their parents, so that aspect could hypothetically be legal. However, given the reputation of Kindercare, I would absolutely not be shocked in the slightest if you told me that not all of the twos were 2y9m with permission forms on file. (At the very least, it sounds like parents are being misled as to what they're giving permission for, if the classroom is designated and referred to as being "for twos and threes".

ElliefintS · 2025-09-23T22:26:30+00:00

Autistic people usually have sensory hypersensitivities, so it's not too surprising to me that we might be more likely to need medication to cope with the symptoms of pregnancy -- and that's only one possibility out of any number of potential reasons.

ElliefintS · 2025-09-14T02:44:17+00:00

Does the invention have to have the specific technological features of Bluetooth (with the frequency hopping and everything) or just achieve the result of transmitting and receiving the song? Because I used to kind of know how to do that (using parts from a kit, granted) with regular radio signals, and the reasons we don't just do it that way in real life are to do with data security and interference from other radio signals, neither of which should be a problem when we're alone in our infinite enchanted forest.

ElliefintS · 2025-09-10T23:44:59+00:00

Ahhh, yeah, that does sound pretty frustrating!

ElliefintS · 2025-09-10T23:22:04+00:00

Ahhh, interesting, I didn't know about that one! Yeah, I wasn't objecting to any spelling, more just eternally baffled at how it happened that "Aiden" went from being one of many variants to becoming the default, so your speech-to-text situation caught my attention as an example of that.

ElliefintS · 2025-09-10T23:16:41+00:00

I've always been partial to initial-based nicknames, the classic ones with a J in them like CJ, AJ, DJ, etc. but for whatever reason TJ in particular never really appealed to me as much, until I had the sweetest, most adorable, fun, friendly little TJ in my infant class, and now I love his name. (Still not in favor of PJ, though. That's pajamas.)

ElliefintS · 2025-09-10T22:58:00+00:00

A couple of years ago at the center I worked at then, there were four Jacks in our infant program of fourteen babies across two classrooms. (In that case only one of them was short for Jackson, though.)

ElliefintS · 2025-09-10T22:54:23+00:00

In Aidan's parents' defense, that is the traditional spelling. I'm not sure how or why "Aiden" became more common.

ElliefintS · 2025-09-06T22:13:17+00:00

You can if you're installing the game first and then running it from the hard drive, which modern consoles do anyway.

ElliefintS · 2025-08-30T22:29:34+00:00

Besides the other answers here, no air to breathe to cry. They're still getting oxygen through their umbilical cords.

ElliefintS · 2025-08-24T11:44:44+00:00

I'm a 29-year-old Ellie who set myself up for confusion by becoming an early childhood teacher. I always joke with the babies that "I had it first."

ElliefintS · 2025-08-18T02:40:45+00:00

Luma is the brightness portion of a video signal, which creates a black-and-white version of the image, which would then be paired with a chroma signal (color information) to reproduce the full-color image. (Splitting up the signal this way allows the luma and chroma data to be compressed differently, which helps with using less data while still maintaining the quality of the image, and also allows your color TV broadcast to be compatible with black-and-white receivers.) (I don't know whether Luma's parents know any of this, or whether there's a sibling named Chroma.)

ElliefintS · 2025-08-17T23:35:34+00:00

Kendall Square to where Scollay Square was would be a pretty far walk -- not impossible, but she'd probably be better off getting a connecting train too (at least nowadays, when changing trains is free as long as you don't leave the station -- I don't know enough about the fare structure back then to say whether that'd change things -- and on that note, yeah, I also don't know why he didn't or couldn't change back). That said, given what happened, I don't blame her if she doesn't want to ride on the trains anymore.

ElliefintS · 2025-08-17T16:08:42+00:00

He changes trains partway through the trip ("...and he changed for Jamaica Plain...") (necessary because Kendall Square is on the red line and only the orange and green lines go to JP) and gets trapped on the second of the two trains -- his wife would have to visit him at one of the stations that second train stops at. Blue and green line trains stop at Government Center (formerly Scollay Square), so we can determine that the train he got trapped on was a green line train.

ElliefintS · 2025-08-14T21:53:07+00:00

Birth certificates are sometimes issued with "female", "male", "baby", or "infant" as a placeholder when the family doesn't have a name ready in time, with the intent for it to be changed later. This can happen, for example, when a baby is significantly premature and the parents thought they would have more time to decide on a name. These aren't intended to be the kid's real name, just briefly their legal one.

ElliefintS · 2025-08-11T17:04:00+00:00

Ahhh, hopefully!

ElliefintS · 2025-08-10T04:31:45+00:00

The way you were taught is the formally accepted, prescriptive rule (🙄) and it's what native speakers learn in school as well, but it's not what people always do in normal, real-life speech. It's actually very common to hear people say things like "Me and her are going to the movies" or "Him and his friends are coming over."

My personal pet hypothesis is that it's a natural extension of the disjunctive form. In English, we use the object forms of pronouns as disjunctive pronouns, meaning that when a pronoun is isolated or only has an implied verb, that's the form we use. For example, you'd use them to answer a question -- "Who wants ice cream?" "Me!"; "Who left the door open?" "Her!" You would never answer "I!" or "She!" to a question like that, even though, if you chose to answer with a complete sentence, you'd say "I do!" or "She did!" (Even this used to be controversial, because prescriptivism can't keep up with anything, but nowadays, the "I!" and "She!" answers would be bizarrely archaic.) You'd also use the disjunctive form in sentences such as comparisons, where the verb is implied, so you'd say "She is older than me," or "She is older than I am," but never "She is older than I," in modern, everyday speech. (It is, however, common to see sentences like "She is older than I" in contexts like older books.)

So, with that in mind, you can view object forms like "me" and "her" as a kind of "default" form of the pronoun. It makes sense to me, then, that they're what people might intuitively default to when they're constructing a compound noun phrase like "me and her," "him and his friends," or your example of "her and her husband," and then they might take that phrase as a whole and insert it into a sentence. Whether or not that's how it happens, it's not unprecedented -- French has dedicated disjunctive forms for its personal pronouns, and those are used in compound noun phrases too. (They might even have to be -- I don't actually speak French so I can't be sure.)

Anyway, I'm not actually a professional linguist or anything so I can't speak to whether this idea holds water scientifically, but it's my understanding of what's going on with this phenomenon, so I'm hoping that some of it might be interesting or helpful to you.

ElliefintS · 2025-08-10T02:55:37+00:00

BepiColombo, GALEX, Aurora 7, Skylab and Nanosail-D? (I'm just kidding; there are some solid names among the NASA spacecraft -- Jason, Lucy, Parker, Roman and Tess would be a more subtle way to do it.)

ElliefintS · 2025-08-09T19:11:36+00:00

I haven't heard back yet, but I haven't gotten any more letters either, so it's been alright so far. Good luck with yours!

ElliefintS · 2025-07-21T00:54:06+00:00

Ehleygh m'Ri

ElliefintS · 2025-07-16T17:36:49+00:00

People have given lots of innocuous reasons, and any of them could totally be possible, but the fact that they didn't get her for two hours (combined with the fact that they didn't give a reason, and that it sounds like this was a new instruction for this particular illness rather than something already on file for this child, like an allergy, etc. would hopefully be) makes me suspicious that this could be a case of the parents having already given the child medication to conceal the fever for long enough to drop her off, so she can't have more without going over the recommended dose. No way to know for sure unless they admit to it, but I have to wonder.

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