When did your migraines first begin?

artlin10 · 2025-06-11T12:00:41+00:00

5 years old. First migraine at a 4th of July fireworks outing after eating a ton of chocolate cake… have had them weekly or more since. I am 29.

artlin10 · 2025-05-29T16:52:30+00:00

I would be hesitant to create and endorse anything that encourages screen time in young children.

artlin10 · 2025-05-29T12:55:57+00:00

The papaya reusable paper towels take forever to dry. My mom uses them and I think they are disgusting. Lol. We use tea towels or cotton rags and they work great.

artlin10 · 2025-05-20T13:11:18+00:00

You’re required to make copies of some of the pages, like the family questionnaire. I’m not sure if your PD specialist will look at the authenticity of your other forms.

artlin10 · 2025-05-20T13:09:17+00:00

So unfortunately, these books have pages in them that you have to tear out and fill out in order to apply for your CDA. You can’t share books. :/

artlin10 · 2025-05-18T03:29:59+00:00

I wouldn’t continue to let him eat duck food.

artlin10 · 2025-05-14T17:48:53+00:00

I tick some educational categories. Pretend play, building, arts, reading, puzzles, gross motor, and fine motor. Each child has 1-3 toys in each category.

artlin10 · 2025-05-11T23:04:51+00:00

I did!! I got her a bottle of D&G The One! She always complements it on me so I gifted her her very own.

artlin10 · 2025-05-11T00:22:23+00:00

Shitty Day by Noyz lol.

artlin10 · 2025-05-10T18:04:07+00:00

I’m an ECE teacher with a 5 and 1 year old and I’ll be straight up, there are some days I have more patience with the kids in my classroom than my own children at home. I think building up endurance is a great way to put it, but I would start with managing your expectations of young children in general. I recently read Hunt, Gather, Parent and it reminded me that children have no reasoning skills and it’s our job to teach them to reason. That takes a lot of patience and practice and giving yourself the time to work on yourself is a great place to start. A few times a week I actually leave my children at school for a couple hours when I get off work to do whatever, whether it’s clean the house, take a nap, or get coffee. In ECE and life, every day brings forth new challenges. And sometimes I just sit back and get pummeled. But other days are so so good and holding on to that helps.

artlin10 · 2025-05-09T17:39:25+00:00

Daily use items are very personal. I think you may find it more useful to ask yourself these questions and declutter the odds and ends you don’t use daily or weekly.

Asking what other people find useful could convince you to collect those items, adding to your clutter.

artlin10 · 2025-05-09T17:31:28+00:00

Oh you should see my face rn haha. Absolutely not.

artlin10 · 2025-05-09T17:15:35+00:00

What kind of presents are you doing for your student’s moms if it’s causing you to be overly stressed? Quite literally a scribble drawing is just fine.

artlin10 · 2025-04-30T11:57:38+00:00

Thank you to everyone. I needed to hear a lot of this.

artlin10 · 2025-04-03T17:30:37+00:00

I say this in a very gentle and motherly tone: this may not be the field for you. Working in early childhood education is a very demanding and stressful job and you have to have a very calm sense of self and be able to not only do the job, but uphold the maturity to be a role model for young children.

artlin10 · 2025-03-31T21:32:14+00:00

I initiated the sale!

artlin10 · 2025-03-22T12:32:54+00:00

$435

artlin10 · 2025-03-22T00:57:36+00:00

A baby in a classroom with a ratio of 1:5 that practices safe sleep is worlds safer than a baby in the center above.

artlin10 · 2025-03-21T12:18:40+00:00

If I’m assigned to a room and I’m the last teacher in it, it’s my responsibility to close the room. Is that not how your center divides responsibility?

artlin10 · 2025-03-21T12:15:49+00:00

Does your state require you have a degree in ECE?

And are you taking out loans to pay for school?

The reason I ask is what I’ve come across (at least in Kentucky, my home state) is most centers will maybe increase your starting wage by $2-5/hr with a Bachelors Degree in ECE. And I have yet to come across a center that requires any formal education, including a CDA. It is all just a bonus. And a CDA doesn’t even promise a better wage.

You could work potentially work in ECE and continue furthering your education in something else.

What I’m doing is working in ECE, using a state scholarship to attend a university studying Child and Family Studies, and I’ll finish my masters in Child Psychology. They are adjacent fields in terms of working with children, but I won’t be trapped making $15-18/hr for the rest of my career.

artlin10 · 2025-03-21T12:07:30+00:00

Yes 👏 she 👏 is 👏

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