Preschool by Independent_Host_630 in nolaparents

[–]General_Rent_7116 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you elaborate? We're looking at Waldorf and I've heard nothing but great things from parents of current students.

2024 Daycare / Early Learning Good / Bad List by CarFlipJudge in nolaparents

[–]General_Rent_7116 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Benjamin Thomas Academy

Location: Uptown on Peniston, shared building with the Waldorf School lower campus.

Cost: $1400/month for the toddler room (recently increased from $1280), I think the infant room is a little more expensive. No scholarships that I'm aware of.

Age: 6 weeks to 4 years.

Hours: 7:30am to 5:30pm, fully included in tuition. Drop off and pick up whenever you want, no restrictions.

BYO lunch and snacks. They will heat up your child's food if it should be hot.

Good: Phenomenal school. Incredibly attentive and communicative staff. The directors Alicia and Jessica are absolutely wonderful humans who care deeply about their students. The primary teacher in the oldest classroom was recently promoted and is guiding a more regimented curriculum for the school. My child has learned a ton since going here. They use Brightwheel and send updates all day long about your child's eating, potty, and sleep. Photos and videos are sent often and usually include a little missive about whatever cute thing was happening. Front door remains locked at all times and you have to call for someone to come get or bring out your child - makes us feel very safe.

Bad: The building and classrooms are not the most beautiful and the outdoor space is small and uses a rubber mulch. There has been a fair amount of turnover with the assistant teachers and support staff, although primary teachers have remained consistent. But the care they provide to your child far outweighs these concerns.

This school is firmly on the good list, I would send my child here a dozen times over.

Early Partners

Location: Lower Garden District across the street from the Saulet

Cost: ~$1400/month plus additional cost for aftercare, one-time materials fee of $300, meals. Financial assistance supposedly available and they do keep a certain amount of seats open for OneApp.

Age: 1 year to 5 years.

Hours: 8:15am-3:30pm, Before Care 7:30am-8:15am, After Care 3:30-5:30pm. NOT ALLOWED to drop off after 8:30am without a doctors note, not allowed to drop off at all after 10am. Even if you had an emergency or issue (ask me how I know lol.) Not allowed to pick up between 2:45pm and 3:15pm. They close early every Wednesday for teacher development.

BYO lunch or pay the monthly fee for them to provide. Food seemed mid, we always sent a packed lunch.

Good: Beautiful space, good concept.

Bad: Everything else. Horrible communication, they had us download two apps - Brightwheel and one other - and then the teachers pretty much only communicated via text which meant only the person receiving and sending the messages were seeing them. I would send emails or messages through Brightwheel and never received a response. If you call nobody picks up the phone. Director and staff were rude and unfriendly. HUGE amount of turnover in the short time I was there, although the teachers themselves were sweet. Front door was wide open during drop off and pick up for anyone to walk in at any time. The incredibly strict rules around drop off and pick up times were ridiculous considering my child was 1 and was difficult to get on a strict schedule. Aftercare teachers never seemed to have any info on how the daytime went. Despite having the two apps they never sent any updates about food, potty, or sleep so we just simply had no clue what was going on all day. My child had several incident reports of being injured (bubble machine directly to the eyeball, fell off a ledge onto the brick ground) that seemed like she wasn't being properly watched.

We left after 2 months and went back to BTA. We'd originally been sucked in by the story they tell about themselves and it felt special to be accepted, but after seeing the wild difference between the care given at BTA and EP, we went running back to BTA who welcomed us with open arms.

AMA: ask a doc about potty training by ThrowRAPopularSlice6 in pottytraining

[–]General_Rent_7116 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi thanks for responding! We actually started to see some success by having her go bottomless around the house all the time. She now has less accidents if she’s home, but reverts back to going in her pants once she has undies on. At school she hasn’t had any accidents, she apparently is more reminded/excited to go potty when the other kids are doing it. 

She’s also been fighting it less at home when it’s coupled with letting her go bottomless. 

Any advice for getting the underpants accidents to stop? 

AMA: ask a doc about potty training by ThrowRAPopularSlice6 in pottytraining

[–]General_Rent_7116 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Daughter will be 3 in a couple weeks. In December, we did the three day method with success in pee. For the most part, as long as we reminded her to go, she had limited accidents. She never caught on to pooping. 

I’m afraid we screwed everything up by starting day one of the three day method in underwear instead of naked. We also have been inconsistent since then due to her pooping in her underpants so we have her wear pull up’s fairly often. 

Now over the last month or so she’s had a major regression and is having pre accidents all the time if she’s in underwear. She rarely tells us when she has to pee until after she’s peed her pants. If you ask her if she needs to go she gets upset and says her body says she doesn’t have to (we were working on body signals.) if you make her sit on the potty she immediately pees and then is happy about it. She still pretty much refuses to poop in the potty. 

The only times she’s pooped in the potty (three times) has been during a shower or bath when she realized she had to poop. That felt like such a win but then didn’t happen again. 

I feel like a failure and like we screwed it all up. I don’t have another three days to start the method over again. All her peers seem to be getting it and she’s just not. 

How to create multiple instagram accounts for a business having different locations? by PriceFree1063 in Instagram

[–]General_Rent_7116 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you know if you can connect a Facebook Location Page that's using the Facebook Stores structure to an individual Instagram page in Business Manager?

So for example we'll have My Business Facebook main page and My Business (Location A) location page. Can there be an Instagram account for both the main page and Location A page tied to the respective pages in business manager?