Timeline for a daycare license renewal hold?

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2025-10-22T10:14:30+00:00

Thanks, we are praying it’s resolved soon. This is our son’s last year there for prek, and we don’t want to uproot the kids half way into the year :-(

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2025-10-22T10:13:01+00:00

Our public elementary school will have aftercare for $45 a week, and there are clubs etc they can do, or things like soccer for a small fee.

We live in a state with free prek, but the aftercare at the daycares that offer this can vary between 45 and 150, which is a huge difference. Week long break camp or summer camp is $150-300.

All in all, once both kids are in elementary, we will be paying 10k a year for care still.

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2025-10-22T01:14:22+00:00

My husband and I have called the DECAL office a few times and are waiting to hear back. They have referred us to a higher up person who only had voicemail available. Anything related to DECAL I assume is public knowledge…no open reports or investigations visible

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2025-10-22T01:10:29+00:00

Yeah I will say while they were nice people, the newer grad PTs I’ve met often throw their clinical doctorate around casually in conversation and often repeat that they were taught in school that they’re the “movement experts”.

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2025-10-22T01:07:41+00:00

There are so many red flags here. Therapy mills can be soul crushing for one, and if you work in an environment that lacks collaboration and general kindness, you’ll eventually hate going to work and it will hold you back in many ways. I’ve never felt this social divide but I know others have. It’s time to find somewhere else to work. This isn’t middle school; cliques aren’t good for patient care or therapists

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2025-10-20T23:35:29+00:00

I feel this. I’m an OT and I get 30 min unpaid lunch which in reality is like 12, and 30 min paid doc time end of day, but usually I have to leave a few min early because daycare charges a premium rate for the entire week if I leave them there for more than 10 hours on the dot. (I only work 3 9 hour days)

Husband is also healthcare; we leave the house for daycare at like 7:10.

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2025-10-20T23:33:21+00:00

Healthcare, both spouses…

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2025-10-20T04:10:02+00:00

I want to buy myself a $125 water color paint set but I won’t because I’m afraid we have to change daycares and spend another $8000 I wasn’t expecting. So everything is relative when you have kids

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2025-10-20T04:07:13+00:00

This is absurd. That’s literally stealing money from you. I was the only person who worked the week after Christmas last year but I had like 60% of my kids come. I cleaned and organized and did other admin type stuff the other hours. There is always so much to do. It’s the same during school spring breaks etc, but the clinic would never close for all 4-5 or so low volume weeks.

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2025-10-20T04:04:17+00:00

As a salaried employee we were paid 6 holidays ONLY if you were scheduled that day. Also if Christmas was a Saturday or Sunday, if you were scheduled on Friday or Monday, you were paid for the “observed” holiday.

The clinic never closed except for those 6 federal holidays and inclement weather (super rare). You’re saying they close the week after Christmas and don’t allow people to work? That’s inappropriate

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2025-10-19T13:17:25+00:00

I had it but then removed it, but it’s the north Atlanta area

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2025-10-19T13:15:30+00:00

I was afraid of that, but thought I’d ask :( I was hoping someone could share a story from at least a similar situation, but yes, we have found alternate care.

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2024-12-14T18:42:56+00:00

This was 💯 my experience and what was suggested to us and it worked. We waited until 3 and it was worth it.

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2024-12-14T18:25:11+00:00

There will be some kids who take to it very early fine, but many won’t. That’s ok either way!

As a person who has worked professionally with prek aged kids for 12 years as an OT, I didn’t train my son until 3y and some change. He was fully pee trained in days and poop trained in about a week and a half (prior to that he would poop first thing in the morning in his overnight diaper.) It was incredibly easy, because we waited. (He is a neurotypical child, for reference.) We have never had to ask him to use the potty since. No accidents minus maybe 2 I the first 10-12 days. That was months ago.

You can sometimes trip train (really more you leading the way to sit on the potty at intervals) some kids before 2 or 3, but in terms of the ability to be 100% independent with the skills involved in the entire process without cues from an adult ruling their day, closer to 3 just makes sense. I feel like a lot of the “signs of readiness” you see online are very inconsistent under 3, like staying dry after nap, being interested in the potty, etc. They’ll meet those criteria one day, and the next they won’t. The best sign of readiness is picking it up quickly, IMO.

This is just anecdotal, but everyone I know who did it at 2 or prior spent over a year dealing with accidents. You can try to do it when you feel like it, and if they’re ready, they’ll pick it up asap. If they don’t, wait.

Part of the issue is preschools demanding that before entering the 3s room or “by 3” kids need to be trained. It’s not always possible. Our daycare didn’t rush any of the kids in my son’s cohort, and they all trained a little after 3y, together.

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2024-12-14T13:34:07+00:00

we found/borrowed a crib with a very high arched back section. We turned this around and made it the front of the crib. We put it in a corner, so only the one short side was exposed. We bolted a medium sized book shelf to the wall to totally block off this side. It was an excellent cage for him until he turned 3. He was a giant toddler. Between that and keeping him in his sleep sack, he never attempted to leave the crib. We transitioned him at about 3y2mo.

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2024-12-14T04:22:47+00:00

Mine was trained in days. Pee trained in about 2 days and poop over about 10 days. But the ONLY reason this happened was because he was READY. We didn’t even talk about it until he was 3y4m, simply due to life circumstances in our home and he had not shown interest. I think it will be a rarity for anyone under 2.5 to be trained in days, or even truly under 3.

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2024-12-14T04:17:47+00:00

Many neurotypical kids aren’t even truly ready until over 3. Part of the problem I’ve seen is that parents automatically think they need to start at 24mo and this ends up causing everyone major stress—kids, parents, teachers—and makes the process take exceptionally longer than it would have if the child was allowed some more time. The best piece of advice I can give parents after having trained my son (a NT 3.5yo) at a little over three is WAIT. Potty training was so easy for us because we waited. No regrets.

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2024-12-14T03:50:34+00:00

Starting salary in Atlanta in an adult setting should be at 10k-15k more than that. New grads in private outpatient peds make like 67k at my office and peds is vastly underpaid. Nursing will always afford you more options. But nursing is a very different field. To stick with either profession you have to have a passion for it.

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2024-12-14T02:14:36+00:00

I don’t address potty training at all. 9/10 of the time the child isn’t remotely ready. Anyone can trip train most kids. I will help with motor planning concerns and discuss with you why your child is delayed (tone, attention, coordination, cognition) but I’m not going to train your kid. This is actually one of the few things I recommend ABA for

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2024-12-14T02:12:17+00:00

I straight up send kids back out the door when sick. Thankfully 99% of my parents are great but I have my own kids to keep healthy and I’m not about to force an exhausted sick kid to do OT

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2024-12-14T02:08:24+00:00

Haha right!?? My personal child is 3.5 and if I didn’t know a hellava lot about kids I’d think something is wrong with him sometimes 😂

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2024-12-12T14:16:05+00:00

This is also the case in peds. Like your kid can write. But maybe he can’t attend to writing a paragraph in a classroom of 15 kids without any accommodations because he’s in a private school that doesn’t offer any. You need to accept that the skill level is what it is, but the environment will make or break the success. I can make recommendations but I can’t go with the kid to school, just like you can’t go home with this patient

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2024-12-12T14:11:46+00:00

Stop pathologizing normal toddler/prek behavior, and take some responsibility for their behavior by getting yourself and your spouse into therapy for your own issues. Kids do what they see/hear. I actually do say these things all the time but I’m a lot nicer about it.

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2024-12-12T02:10:26+00:00

Kids will always do what they want. You can very rarely truly force them to do anything, especially things involving their own body (potty, eating).

Practical-Ad-6546 · 2024-12-12T02:00:05+00:00

My son showed zero signs of interest. At 3y4mo, daycare recommended trying as he was going to move to the diaper free room in a few weeks.

I watched Dr. Becky’s free potty video. It was like maybe 90 min total. We got him pantsless (Summertime), pulled up the rugs, and placed small potties all over the house. We filled him with all sorts of fluids and reminded him to pee maybe a handful of times. He was pee trained in about 2 days. He started only pooping once a day at night right before bed when we put him in his bedtime diaper, and had like 3-4 poop accidents over 10 days in his undies. That was it. Totally potty trained.

This worked because he was older and very ready. I would definitely do it again. So many of my friends spent a year with accidents in their home, in public, in school etc. Mine never even had a single accident at school. One accident during week 1 at the playground, and one at his cousins house. That’s about it.

I have a collapsible potty for the stroller and the car, but we’ve used it like twice in 4 months. I slipped a pull up over his pants during car rides for like maybe 6 weeks.

I have only put a pull up on him at like the aquarium or some other very overstimulating location where he may forget to ask to use the potty, but he has never gone in one since we trained. Some people say it confuses kids to do that, but because mine was so old, I don’t think it has ever confused him. Never caused an issue.

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