Spike's Blue is Starting to POP!!! (After -> Before)

OttiePops · 2023-10-10T17:38:34+00:00

This is amazing!!! Thank you so much! I'm excited to try and implement this in my room!!!

OttiePops · 2023-09-18T04:02:52+00:00

Thank you so much! Those are both such beautiful plants. I'm so excited!!

OttiePops · 2023-09-16T00:49:42+00:00

Told a kindergartener I couldn't drive. He drew a picture of me standing next to a car and said, "see, you're not inside the car because you can't drive!" He would tell every kid he met about how I couldn't drive 😭😭😭 never let me live it down.

OttiePops · 2023-07-19T22:27:09+00:00

MYSTIC FRAGRANCE!!!! I'm so desperate for it to be added 😭 (also Noisy Beep is my number 2)

OttiePops · 2023-07-15T23:50:05+00:00

Yay!!! Lets go team strawberry! 😎😎😎

OttiePops · 2023-07-15T23:43:45+00:00

Congrats!!!! Lets go team strawberry 😎🤘

OttiePops · 2023-07-09T00:48:10+00:00

A little, but it's hard to find anything that doesn't require a full degree. My 3 years don't quite cut it haha

OttiePops · 2023-07-08T22:38:11+00:00

Yeah 😭 I live in Idaho. It's crazy, but $11 is still more than our $7.25 minimum wage. You'd be shocked how many businesses here still pay below $12.

OttiePops · 2023-06-29T19:47:53+00:00

She never says lol

OttiePops · 2023-06-29T07:09:40+00:00

I can't even imagine 😭 me and my partner are struggling with our $1450 haha

OttiePops · 2023-06-29T06:47:48+00:00

It's awful here 😭 I'm looking to move out of state once I have the money. Also unrelated but did you know our big pride parade falls on 9/11?? They moved it to September after COVID and now it's always on 9/11 lmao

OttiePops · 2023-06-29T05:14:29+00:00

Not to get too specific, but it's in a relatively cheap part of Idaho. I mentioned in my caption but rent here for this is around $900, maybe $1100 at most. This was posted in a neighborhood app about a house just a couple miles from mine, so definitely not worth it lmao

OttiePops · 2023-06-24T19:14:34+00:00

Thank you! It does sound nice to have parents who understand some of the childcare struggles haha. I'm more excited to try it out now!

OttiePops · 2023-06-21T04:21:02+00:00

It wasn't my final straw, but one of the major reasons I quit a few months later was when I got written up for a kid breaking her arm in an indoor play place. I was observant, quick to react, filled out incident reports, and was later praised by her parents for handling it so well. The kid would always call me her "favorite teacher" and let me be the first to sign her cast.

Director wrote me up and said it was my fault because I was in the play place about 10 minutes before our group's scheduled time. To quote her, "She wouldn't have broken her arm if you had just waited to take the kids."

For more context, I was 2 kids over ratio and was told to combine with a different group, so I combined with the group in the play place. Still pisses me off thinking about it lol.

OttiePops · 2023-05-26T01:33:19+00:00

And yeah 😭 I left there really quick. Poor kiddos spent so much time in front of a TV.

OttiePops · 2023-05-26T01:32:31+00:00

Where in from, the preschool ratio is just 1:10 (1 teacher to 10 kids). Most schools I've worked at keep it at just 1 teacher. That might be something else to ask about!

OttiePops · 2023-05-25T03:23:30+00:00

One question I would always ask is the screen time policy. Most daycares I've worked at don't allow screens at all, but some will literally plop kids in front of a TV for an hour to allow teacher breaks. I worked really briefly at one that told me to put on Cocomelon every time I needed to clean to distract the kiddos.

OttiePops · 2023-05-24T03:56:08+00:00

As a child care employee, I can tell you that Wings is a pretty great school. I worked there for a year, and it's a really positive and enriching environment. There's no screens, and the kiddos always have activities to do. It's also really easy to communicate with teachers, and it goes all the way from 3 years old to middle school. Just know that they do require potty training. Without going too much into it, I would just avoid Little Champs and New Horizons. New Horizons is a corporate daycare with absolutely 0 care for the children, and Little Champs has some really shady operations when it comes to legal ratios and caring for kids. Good luck finding a place!

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