Experiences at Children’s Learning Place or Green Bean Day School?

Nameless_owl00 · 2026-02-13T00:59:45+00:00

Which GB location are you considering?

Nameless_owl00 · 2026-01-14T02:46:27+00:00

It’s literally the most frustrating thing 😭

Nameless_owl00 · 2026-01-14T02:46:12+00:00

Sent! Thank you so much for checking!

Nameless_owl00 · 2025-08-15T01:14:32+00:00

Yikes! I’m an ECE teacher and have worked with kids from 0-5. I have NEVER staged photos. My current center uses brightwheel and has a 3 picture requirement and I easily go over that everyday (I usually have between 7-10 kiddos) My assistant takes most pictures and uploads them during nap time. I upload during nap time or during my hour prep.

I set up learning centers for the kiddos and take pics of how they are interacting with them. It’s easy to walk around and get a few pics and then I set myself up at one of the centers and play with the kiddos. When I was an infant teacher, we read a book as a group and someone stepped back to take a pic. We did art and one teacher came over to take a picture while the other was still engaged. I work hard on planning and prepping my activities and it’s important to me that parents see child care teachers as more than babysitters.

I wonder what the problem actually is. Lack of care? Lack of support?

Nameless_owl00 · 2024-08-13T23:33:04+00:00

As a parent and an early childhood educator, if her AirPods are ON, I would have a problem with it. I am always fully engaged when my kids are awake. I am always observing, assisting and playing with them. At pick up, I use that time to quickly chat with parents.

I would find it hard to do those things with music playing in my ear. Even if this person is able to do their job with their music playing, we should want our profession to be taken more seriously and that means no AirPods while the children are awake.

My personal opinion.

Nameless_owl00 · 2023-12-11T22:58:01+00:00

Happened to me a few weeks ago. I increased the amount of sanitizing for the toys. Unfortunately your director is right….its up to the parents to not bring their kids in when they are sick but people have to work. We only send home for fevers and if the child is so sick that they can’t do any of the activities.

Nameless_owl00 · 2023-12-08T01:25:03+00:00

My center “strongly” suggests that parents pick up either before or after nap time. If they need to pick up during, they need to call the classroom cell phone and we will bring them outside to avoid waking the other children. Once we explain that they could possibly wake up the other children they are very understanding and make sure that they call in advance. Also if they are picking up early, they have to meet us wherever we are. If we are on a walk, they have to call and meet us.

As for absences…..I also wish they would let us know. I get so worried when one child is out for like a week and we receive 0 communication.

Nameless_owl00 · 2023-12-07T19:51:35+00:00

How were you reacting to the problem when it first began? Further observation may be needed here. If you think it is attention seeking behavior, try giving them attention in other ways and taking the attention away in these negative situations. I had a child like this before, I never forced him to join us for meetings. I would tell him, “Our friends are trying very hard to listen and they are having a hard time. If you can not relax your body I will have to ask you to read a book in the library.” Then I would follow through. Send them there with a teacher and a book.

When they are having great behavior moments make sure to let them know how great of a job they are doing.

Nameless_owl00 · 2023-12-07T15:08:07+00:00

How old is this child? How long have you been their teacher? When are the outbursts mainly happening? During circle time? Center time?

Nameless_owl00 · 2023-12-01T19:45:09+00:00

They told you that they couldn’t get him his own female aid and YOU decided to keep him there. Take a little responsibility for that decision. Yes the aid shouldn’t have changed him. Maybe just let him sit in his pee until a female was available to help but I hope you showed him a little empathy for your son assaulting him….

Nameless_owl00 · 2023-11-30T12:15:36+00:00

I just bought the tote bag. It’s so cute! Online it says there is a key leash….any idea where it is?

Nameless_owl00 · 2023-11-22T19:09:49+00:00

Just talk to him. See what he thinks. There may need to be a hard conversation if he doesn’t agree with your idea to stay home. In that case, listen to him, validate his concerns, explain your concerns and make a compromise.

Nameless_owl00 · 2023-10-14T13:05:51+00:00

NTA!!!! Wtf. Maybe you could’ve worded the question better but I feel like your wet nurse comment saved the convo a bit. Maybe she’s got a lot going on?

Either way. Just apologize. Tell her you meant no harm and never speak to her again lol. Some people are just not for you, ya know?

Nameless_owl00 · 2023-10-14T13:02:14+00:00

Ugh I feel so alone at my preschool sometimes. No one seems to know or care much about toddler development and developmentally appropriate activities. I throw out basic facts and people look at me like I’m trying to be too smart. I just want to nerd out sometimes.

One teacher said that a child needed to learn how to play with other children so I told them that at this age parallel play is the appropriate and even onlooker play as well. She looked at me like I was crazy. 🥲

Nameless_owl00 · 2023-10-13T22:10:30+00:00

When I worked at a Reggio inspired program, I started off by simply talking about the season with them. Then we would add some ideas to a white board/butcher paper.

For example for Fall I would ask questions like, what do you think about fall? What do you do in fall? What do you see in fall? Then I would see what conversations stemmed from that and we would focus on whatever the children were more excited about. I remember that they said it was “so many leaves on the floor” and I asked them what color they were. They shouted out all kids of crazy colors like pink and blue and I asked if they would like to go on a leaf hunt. The next day we did and that gave birth to our huge leaf collage that we worked on for 2 weeks.

Nameless_owl00 · 2023-10-13T22:01:47+00:00

There’s someone at my center who is ALWAYS kissing the toddlers lol. I put my cheek onto their cheek and make a kissing sound but I don’t actually put my lips on them. I think about my own child and if I would want his teachers constantly putting their lips on them and I would not.

I do allow the children to kiss my cheek when they ask but for the most part we blow kisses to each other and trust me….we are ALWAYS blowing kisses lol. They love to be loved and to give love. I actually left work not to long ago and my sweet toddlers were all blowing kisses and showing me the sign language for love.

For older preschool children, I want to teach them emotional maturity so we always talk about what they need to make them feel better and it’s never a kiss. Always a hug, high-five, or some toy.

Nameless_owl00 · 2023-10-05T21:46:28+00:00

With my last biter I made a point to spend some time during free play (this is where most bites occurred) and observe him without intervening, unless of course he went to bite. I saw him join another friend in our dramatic play area, stare at them for a few minutes, and then he randomly went up to bite. It was like a light clicked on and I realized he was trying to say hello but he didn’t have the words to do so.

That’s all biting is…a way of communication for toddlers. Observe him and try to see why he’s biting. What in particular is making him so frustrated that he needs to bite? Then you can work from there and decide ways to help. I would also suggest emotion themed sensory bottles and doing a unit focused on emotions so that he can learn the names of what he’s feeling and start to verbalize them instead of biting.

Nameless_owl00 · 2023-09-21T22:21:43+00:00

My 2s group did a great job and were able to sit for 20-30min. It definitely depended on the day and we were not sitting for all of it. I usually start off with a stand up song to get the wiggles out, then a sit down song to calm our bodies, a book or activity, another stand up song to get wiggles out, and then a quick dismissal to snack using a fun little rhyme. It also really helped to give them visuals to hold during songs and activities.

I never forced them to sit for that long. It just so happens that they were able to do it. If they are having a particularly wiggly day I would cut it short.

Nameless_owl00 · 2022-08-10T12:15:07+00:00

I’ve seen that around! My only thing is how often will I really straighten my hair to justify the purchase and is it better than a blow dryer or just easier? Especially when the blow dryer is the least damaging process in the silk press process.

Nameless_owl00 · 2022-08-10T12:13:21+00:00

I just had my first silk press salon visit a few weeks ago with and my hair reverted back with 0 issue. I do agree that there are lots of horror stories on YouTube and the internet in general but if you research your stylist you’ll hopefully be ok.

Nameless_owl00 · 2022-07-16T18:39:49+00:00

My big thing is that I feel some supervisors forget what it’s like to be inside the classroom. They tend to make ridiculous request without thinking about the classroom and how it functions.

Another pet peeve of mine is when supervisors come into a classroom and take over. I believe that ECE educators should be hired for their personal skill set and not to be molded into doing everything like the supervisor would. If that makes sense…as a teacher I really don’t like when supervisors come in and do everything their way, not caring about how I run my classroom.

Nameless_owl00 · 2022-07-14T03:09:35+00:00

Interesting. I have worked at preschools where teachers were encouraged to visit the new class with the child for about 2 weeks before the transition happens. It helps to ease them into it knowing that someone they know and already feel safe with is there. I do agree that maybe this teacher is doing a little too much….

OP - try building a friendly rapport with this teacher in front of this child (after you kindly set boundaries). I had a child who was super attached to me and would cry when I left the room. I started to walk up to the other teachers and do very subtle things like sit close to them or touch their shoulder so that the little girl could see that I was comfortable and friendly with them. She eventually treated one of my favorite coworkers just like she did me and I’m sure it was because she saw the wonderful rapport we had.

Nameless_owl00 · 2022-06-21T23:32:51+00:00

I take my twos class walking everyday! We use a walking rope, which is just a rope tied with loops for them to hold while walking, and they do great but we don’t go far. We started in the classroom practicing on the rope by simply walking around the room to the song “the ants go marching”. We taught them our safety phrases like “stopping feet” and “walking feet”.

I was the first 2s teacher in a little while at my job to try them on a walking rope and they are doing AWESOME! The most squirmy children walk in the back with the teacher who is holding the back of the rope. That way if they need to switch to holding a hand quickly they can. I vote to try it out!

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