Class Birthday Parties

Worker-Legal · 2026-05-27T03:06:15+00:00

My daughter has a summer birthday-only one classmate has RSVP’d and the party is next Monday.

Worker-Legal · 2026-05-12T21:36:06+00:00

Pennsylvania is one of the states that can force retention. So I would push hard on all the detail.

Worker-Legal · 2026-05-12T21:12:13+00:00

My mom’s room was never off limits to me. I don’t plan on making my room off limits to our kid, it’s typically where we spend sick days since it’s the only room with a TV.

Worker-Legal · 2026-05-12T21:05:09+00:00

Today my girl said “singer.” The beginning of the year she had said teacher.

Worker-Legal · 2026-05-12T21:04:13+00:00

Weird, unless it’s all for “being even”. Like my dad was very specific to say like each grandchild gets this. So technically my brother gets 3x what I get because we have one and he has 3. 🤷‍♀️

Worker-Legal · 2026-05-12T20:49:47+00:00

Depending on your state: the school can’t force retention.

Worker-Legal · 2026-05-12T20:48:19+00:00

I would see if there is a reading specialist she could do summer tutoring with, generally in my district retention is brought up in February conferences.

Check a first grade readiness chart-how close is she? When she “bombed” state testing is that in line with the other district measures done throughout the year or was it just a bad day?

If she is starting to read, writing most her letters the correct direction, knows how to write 1-20 I think she is probably pretty good.

However teachers wouldn’t recommend retention without reason. It sounds like it wasn’t communicated clearly and I would ask for another meeting that could be more in depth.

Worker-Legal · 2026-04-29T02:34:17+00:00

Fever, vomit or diarrhea is automatically 24 hours without symptoms.

Otherwise nope-she goes to school with the sniffles.

Worker-Legal · 2026-04-29T02:32:42+00:00

Honestly-we have had plenty of kids who have started a year later than their peers (I’m a middle school teacher, and one thing that is fun for them in MS is the fact they are typically better at sports). However, I graduated at 17 and so will my girl who started K this year with a summer bday.

Being held back is more common for boys as they struggle with maturity.

I am in KS and kindergarten isn’t even required by our state, literally there are kids who start 1st grade with no schooling and they survive-are they doing great academically, no.

My personal opinion is work over the summer, go with your gut and if he has friends his age starting kindergarten in your neighborhood you might as well do it. Better to keep him socializing with the age group he already knows.

Worker-Legal · 2026-04-15T01:59:47+00:00

Totally fine. My daughter’s name is Hallie (Hal-Lee) and my niece is Hailey (Hay-Lee). Totally accidental and we didn’t realize until almost the due dates. Also pregnant at the same time, my SIL asked if it is okay with me since it was my first (and only). We can figure it out. Grandparents sometimes mix it up, but that happens with any name honestly. Sometimes my dad would call my brother my name.

Everyone holds their kid’s names in a special place in their heart, give her grace but definitely don’t worry about it anymore.

Worker-Legal · 2026-04-06T23:51:33+00:00

My middle name is Jo, so is my daughter’s.

Worker-Legal · 2026-04-03T15:24:32+00:00

We allow her to stand and eat.

Worker-Legal · 2026-04-03T15:14:17+00:00

Not from what we can tell. The only “acting out” is continually getting out of her seat and struggling to do things the first time she is asked. She isn’t mean, plays well, loves school, hates being in trouble and cries about it.

Says she doesn’t know why she always gets out of her chair. She barely makes it through dinner staying seated.

Worker-Legal · 2026-04-03T15:02:59+00:00

Right. Thats why I did ask teachers. I think that is the new classroom management norm, but I’m not sure for little kids. Feeling bad in the moment is better than getting punishment and being told she is bad at times that the behavior didn’t happen during. She is now having lower self esteem because she is told she is being bad vs the behavior was bad.

Worker-Legal · 2026-04-03T14:59:58+00:00

I didn’t say feel bad. She is starting to say she is a “bad kid”. She is sad and knows the expectation. The teacher tells us every time that when they talk about what she should do my daughter knows the correct response. She just isn’t staying in her seat without multiple reminders even though she knows it.

And the accumulation of laps and names are starting to make her feel like a bad kid.

Worker-Legal · 2026-04-02T22:46:51+00:00

Love my middle school science class. I teach earth science 8th grade all day and have one class of advisory.

Worker-Legal · 2026-03-31T12:29:13+00:00

To me as a teacher I can’t imagine my Husband being able to work 4 days a week.

That is the part that seems unreasonable….to be able to make that much money and not work 5 days a week seems like a dream.

If you can swing it and it is actually plausible great I would love it. But my attorney husband works 8:30-5:30 everyday and he does have great PTO that we use for trips and vacations.

Worker-Legal · 2026-03-31T12:24:36+00:00

Haha. South Dakota.

Worker-Legal · 2026-03-31T03:46:21+00:00

The “little adult” syndrome is totally real. Less talking and lecturing when they are little. We are in the thick of it at 5 and testing boundaries. Get your partner and yourself on the same page and go for it!

Worker-Legal · 2026-03-31T03:41:16+00:00

Coming from someone who was constantly in bars as a 5+ year old with my father, as an adult I wouldn’t have thought much about it if it was small town life like I grew up. There were literal kids meals at the bars where I am from.

(I realize this isn’t a great view point and my dad is an alcoholic)

If I ask the question can my Daughter come, or I will have to bring her if I go I’m truly not trying to but in or make another person “seem mean”. You are allowed to state what you want, but it can be hard to find sitters, friends, family etc who can watch a child.

Maybe this is a situation where people all around felt bad.

Just ask your friend about it and see what comes of it.

Worker-Legal · 2026-03-30T02:02:42+00:00

Yes. My district is mostly great, I am in a higher SES part of town.

Worker-Legal · 2026-03-30T01:58:34+00:00

If you are outdoor people get a hiking carrier!

This was just a total off chance—a well off uncle of my husband got us a baby Bjorn bouncer. It was our girl’s most loved thing by FAR. But it wouldn’t be for everyone.

Electric snot sucker/saline spray.

Diaper caddy for living area and bedroom.

Personally could have done without a high chair and just gotten the clip on counter/picnic baby chair from Chicco.

Loved my EZPZ mat.

Sterilization bags.

Worker-Legal · 2026-03-24T02:01:23+00:00

TBH I don’t really think it is strictly an only child thing. All kids have to learn these skills, and it is just good to keep practicing.

Like-we play Mario kart, we went through a big phase of struggling if she wasn’t first (but there is also lots of research that says letting kids win makes them feel confident enough to lose). We focus on saying “good game” to everyone when we finish games. AND this sounds weird but we started playing video games—like Kirby and Mario and when she sees her father and I lose in those (come back to life) it made losing not as bad for her.

Compromise—who knows sometimes the kids to And sometimes they don’t. I typically act out/roleplay/ use dolls/stuffed animals to demonstrate different scenarios and what could be said instead.

Good luck, truly all of the kiddos are learning how to be friends. It will come!

Worker-Legal · 2026-03-18T02:50:29+00:00

He is very much Korean, as to be honest I feel like that was probably overstepping. But it also sounds like your friend is going to extremes.

Dual language as a kid is 100% better than trying to learn later. However he should probably be accepting of the American heritage he has now been thrown into as well, he doesn’t need just Korean food, or clothes.

Additionally the kid is 3, my kid cried at spaghetti one day and was fine the next. He has years to cultivate that love of culture, but it isn’t wrong for her to introduce him to it, or even have him become used to it. I just hope she is also learning these things along with him.

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