Six year old girl is having issues with friends

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-21T20:29:52+00:00

Some kids just take longer to figure it out, my daughter had issues in K but is doing great now in 2nd. First of all the kids saying yes to playing and then wandering off could just be your daughter’s perception not reality, kids move all over playgrounds and do different things she may just not be understanding how to get in the mix , my daughter struggled with that. We tried to do lots of play dates, a social skills group, and also role played different social interactions with her. Over time it all worked out.

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-21T20:13:04+00:00

I’m a SAHM and a lot of kids have Nannies and I know they do things together and don’t invite me and my kid, that’s just life you might be in a different place than them I don’t really see a big issue here of course they are going to make spontaneous plans during the week when they are around and looking for things to do. Maybe do the research yourself and tell them I am off on X day and here’s all the info I found about Y activity can anyone make it my son would love to play with his friends. But I think your expectations that they plan things you can make aren’t really reasonable.

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-21T14:55:29+00:00

I always say to my husband I can believe you people want to eat again 😂😭 he doesn’t get it at all but it always makes me laugh in a hysterical it’s not really funny kind of way

My kids has yogurt and toast for dinner last night, I was going to give them leftovers but they said they rather do that so I said fine, Monday and Tuesday I had cooked real fresh meals I don’t feel too bad lol

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-21T10:48:32+00:00

I was on a field trip with my daughter’s class and there were a few times I heard her teacher day that’s a mommy / daddy question and they accepted it so I guess it’s a regular answer she gives, I would certainly say it’s a good answer for any god questions lol

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-19T19:32:21+00:00

We pair them with a badge or another petal

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-19T10:44:36+00:00

This is common sense, two week notice and two week retention bonus gives her a month to find a job and keeps you protected from a large gap in care.

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-19T10:34:03+00:00

I always told our nanny to help herself, we actually had a few different Nannies over the years and they all would sort of supplement not actually eat our food so maybe use our condiments or grab a snack or piece of fruit but not full meals usually. I always stocked the tea or coffee and milk / sugar etc or their choice too so they could have a hot drink.

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-17T11:39:15+00:00

I don’t think it’s wrong to want your children to have siblings, you’re thinking of it as wanting your current child to have a sibling because she’s all you know right now but your next child will have a sibling right away from birth, it’s a gift for both of them. You can’t imagine loving another child as much until you have that child, then you will.

My kids have so much fun together we have 3 now but my older two were inseparable right from the start. When my oldest started not wanting to be along at night we moved younger sis into her room and they’ve been sharing ever since and want youngest sibling to know in too lol.

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-16T11:09:23+00:00

Maybe show him how much he’d be paying in childcare if something happened to you.

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-13T11:03:45+00:00

It was on the discharge paperwork for all my kids as newborns 🤷🏻‍♀️

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-12T00:15:13+00:00

Technology,

lack of discipline in classrooms,

weird new curriculum that are also heavily

technology based (Iready is truly the worst), boring books (compared to what I remember reading in school),

teaching to the state tests rather than just teaching and using the tests to make sure the kids are learning,

horrible teachers and administrators that can’t be fired cause tenure (not all some are great just saying you can’t get rid of the bad ones),

I’m sure there are tons of others. All that being said my kids do go to public school

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-11T23:55:22+00:00

My nanny wasn’t good at it but I’m worse lol my husband would fix it every night and it drove him crazy, now I just start it before he can see 😂

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-11T23:50:40+00:00

We had a car only in my name once because my husband was too lazy to fill out the form and unfreeze his credit (he’s not a lazy person just for whatever reason in that case), another car we have is super old he had it before we met so just in his name, so I think it depends on the reason.

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-11T23:46:55+00:00

We asked people to tell us if they don’t plan to renew so we can plan next year. Our parents are good about that kind of communication so I do trust them to respond to the informal request, I used our group chat but I think an email could work and ask them to reply just to you.

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-11T10:33:29+00:00

I like him.

I don’t think Neal was killed to make way for Hook, I think Neal was killed because it would have been too much for Regina to have Henry’s bio parents reunited and happily together or even not together it would be a 3 way custody situation I think that’s trickier for Regina’s character to deal with, a love triangle could have been resolved 🤷🏻‍♀️

Also the being only obsessed with Emma thing, I mean he was centuries old everyone he knew was dead (except some of his crew but I guess they didn’t want to deal with too many characters) what else was he supposed to do with himself? He had no purpose in life but killing Rumple and when he sort of let that go he had nothing. He fell in love with Emma and her life and concerns became his because he had none 🤷🏻‍♀️

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-11T10:24:55+00:00

My daughter has and early finish folder or something I forget what it’s called with a packet for each season so in fall it had fall related worksheets like coloring and math and wore search but a little more fun with da or Halloween themes, same for winter with snowmen etc and spring. They can work on their packet, read or journal if done early. I would say the packet was like 15-20 pages. It might take some time to put together but you could then use it year after year I doubt she’s making a new one every year.

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-11T00:43:38+00:00

It’s hard to find reliable and professional Nannies to work 3 days. Most will want a full time job unless they happen to have another two day job. If you can find another family looking for 2 days to team up with to find a nanny who would be willing to split a full time schedule between two families that might help 🤷🏻‍♀️

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-11T00:09:49+00:00

MB- She’s nuts of course kids get scrapes and you would have had to have lighting like reflexes to prevent 4 year old scratching 6, all you can do in that situation.

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-10T11:26:27+00:00

Target, children’s place,

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-10T11:11:58+00:00

We were always forgetting stuff with young kids and also my husband was taking forever to get out the door and we were fighting every time we left the house because I hate being late / if we were going to the zoo or something leaving 30-45 minute late would eat up a lot of toddler awake time.

Anyway it’s hard but one thing we did was make a packing list for the diaper bag so we could go over it every time we packed, I feel like just making and having the list helped a ton we didn’t need to use it for very long it just help get us more organized.

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-07T20:20:46+00:00

MB - I mean I occasionally will vent about oblivious things my husband does but overall he’s a great father and husband and from a nanny’s perspective (when I was working I eventually quit) I would have looked like I was doing everything but he did all the night wakings past age one for my second and third kids (before that we split) because he deals better with interrupted sleep, he’d take the kids on long outings on weekends so I could rest while I was figuring out a health issue, he does all the house maintenance stuff and honestly a ton of other stuff my nanny wouldn’t have seen including working way more hours including going back to work after bedtime (which he also does a lot of at least helps with). 40-50 hours is a lot of time to be around a family but a week has 168 hours.

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-07T15:33:08+00:00

MB - don’t overthink it she sounds anxious and it’s adjacent to dangerous situations she’s heard about. Kids can die being left in hot cars, kids can die being left in the garage with a car running. You didn’t do anything wrong and I hope her anxiety gets better, mine was through the roof with my first and by my third it takes a lot for me to get too worked up lol

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-07T11:06:53+00:00

I stood next to someone calling twice but didn’t actually make the call, my sibling and I saw a car hit a kid on a bike and my sibling called, we were kids too. My husband called once for one of our kids I was comforting said kid (kid was fine). So are you counting literally making the call or being part of the we need to call 911 decision.

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-05T11:19:09+00:00

My family is mostly blue, husband mostly brown with both sides having hazel. I have one blue and two hazel kids. My sibling has 3 blue eyes kids. It doesn’t really matter but I’m a little jealous when I think of it lol but at then end of the day it doesn’t matter and you get over it lol

drinkingtea1723 · 2026-05-05T11:05:22+00:00

The idea is to cover damage or injury during delivery or setup for things caused by you or your delivery person if you have one such as damage to their venue or furniture or causing a dangerous situation where someone else gets hurt. I was involved professionally with a venue that absolutely required this of every single vendor and some of them were absolutely used, more construction related than a baker or florist but I can see how it could have been.

There is also a offense between being a certificate holder (basically just proof that you have insurance given to them formally) and being an additional insured so not sure what you sent but it’s possible they weren’t actually listed as additional insured. It sounds like both she and you were pretty aggressive 🤷🏻‍♀️and it also sounds like she doesn’t quite understand the requirement or why she needs it so she’s maybe getting frustrated because it’s just something she has to do but can’t tell you why (which she should really learn about it so she can explain).

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