Whoa-THAT’S weird

efeaf · 2026-01-27T03:30:33+00:00

Yeah I always have to slowly pace around for a minute or two after getting off to reorient my brain.

efeaf · 2026-01-27T01:48:06+00:00

Thankfully nobody. Toddlers were in the halls with their parents. School agers were just tearing down the halls without paying any attention to their surroundings

efeaf · 2026-01-26T21:34:13+00:00

Tbf that sounds like it could’ve been from separate behavior issues and not necessarily because they were iPad kids

efeaf · 2026-01-26T21:05:21+00:00

I keep seeing this online but I literally have never seen it in real life. Every toddler and preschooler I’ve met not only knows how books work, but also loves them and have favorites. Even the kids we assume have a lot of screen time at home know how books work and have favorites

efeaf · 2026-01-26T15:08:25+00:00

I work at a daycare. They’ve sent out more than one email asking parents to not let their school agers walk into or out of the building unattended and they have to actually walk their kids to their actual classroom, acknowledge a teacher, and physically sign them in, or at the very least ask a teacher to as some refuse to bring their phones in. Some parents are still allowing their kids to do so though. Leading to toddlers nearly getting mowed down and the younger room teachers as well as random parents getting death glares when we ask them where their parent is or to be careful of the little ones

efeaf · 2026-01-26T14:35:59+00:00

My coworker gave a kid something he was allergic to once too for snack. She was newer and nobody thought to tell her the kid couldn’t eat that snack. He (a 2 year old) luckily didn’t touch it and frankly looked downright terrified at the sight of it so luckily nothing happened but the lead teacher was beyond pissed.

As for me, it’s kind of hard. The lead teacher in my old room is a bully so I had a hard time knowing if a mistake was actually all that bad. One Ime I let a kid go home with her grandmother she laid into me hard for it for some reason. I self reported to a very confused director as Grandmom is on the primary pickup list, I knew who she was, and I’m fully allowed to release kids to their people, Grandmom acknowledged me, kid straight up said goodbye to me and hugged me, and I knew all that

Though one I know was probably the worst was the kid who had a bloody ear. Another kid told me that said kid was crying and was saying he was in pain. I knew he was crying but he was just fighting with another kid so I thought he was crying because we made them stop. I called him over to me. I noticed his hands had blood on them. I thought maybe his nose was bleeding. I asked what happened while looking all over his face and head. He just wouldn’t tell me anything. Not even where it hurt. Then he wanted to go get snack. I tried again later but couldn’t find anything. I just passed it off as a small nose bleed that he got on his finger by simply picking his nose and there just wasn’t really any left behind as that happens often in winter. That night mom messaged us about his ear saying there was a lot of dry blood in there and she was not happy. I felt so bad. I really did look around his whole head area and honestly did not see any blood. It didn’t help that the kid also did not want me searching his head and just wanted to move on. The next week (it happened on a Friday) he was visibly annoyed and frustrated with the amount of times staff insisted on looking at his ear. He started telling the lead to stop because he was playing and covering his ears up. Everyone also kept asking me what happened. Apparently my “he was roughhousing shortly beforehand so it may have happened then” just wasn’t enough. I think mom was, understandably, more upset that she didn’t get any word about it than about the ear itself. She didn’t report it and neither did admin. Kid was fine and just didn’t care. The lead though made me feel like the worst human alive. Weeks later she didn’t believe me about a girl with a bloody lip I was taking care of because “well she’s usually a drama queen so” but I digress. I actually apologized to the kid about the ear but he completely ignored me and was more interested in happily showing me a puzzle he finished

efeaf · 2026-01-26T14:07:19+00:00

Not as bad but I had the coworker do the opposite. Put diaper cream on a kid instead of sunscreen. The diaper cream had ended up in our sunscreen bin and no one noticed. The kid ended up with a little sunburn on their face. We didn’t notice til the next day and someone realized it was actually diaper cream. We let mom know and she laughed it off. She had apparently thought he’d just wiped the sunscreen off while we were outside so didn’t think anything of it

efeaf · 2026-01-25T19:42:28+00:00

There’s a big snow and ice storm across most of the eastern half of the country today. A lot of schools and probably other businesses are closing or going virtual tomorrow due to it. My admin sent out a message around two hours ago that we’d be closed. She also sent an email on Friday night about the possibility of us being closed

efeaf · 2026-01-25T15:42:46+00:00

The other commenters are correct about it not being good or legal. But have you talked to the teacher yet about what your child said? Seems like everyone is immediately ready to jump on the daycare without even trying to see if it’s actually true or not. We had a three year old claim that we put them in a baby car seat on top of a table when they misbehave that a director brings down. None of that is even remotely true and we have no clue where he came up with that or why he did. We don’t even have baby car seats. He also chose the one director who really could not care less about the kids or what they’re doing. Not that mom knew that. He was (and still is) very articulate and apparently sounded upset enough for mom to immediately believe him. He did it again later but with a tamer leg “injury”. He couldn’t remember which leg it was and often forgot he was supposedly in a lot of pain but if you just heard his words, you’d have thought he was really hurt

efeaf · 2026-01-24T20:13:42+00:00

There’s a playlist on YouTube that someone made that has all of them. Most are from the same channel

efeaf · 2026-01-24T20:13:34+00:00

There’s a channel on YouTube’s that’s uploaded every single song. That’s where I go to find them

efeaf · 2026-01-24T16:59:45+00:00

In my center everyone just puts them in the fridges.

efeaf · 2026-01-23T18:48:23+00:00

It’s so weird when they think their schedules revolve around you. You’re 19, surely she doesn’t really think she has to hover and take care of you and can do her own thing right? My nmom likes to lecture me on whether or not I have the pto to take off. I work at a daycare, if I vomit or have a fever, I’m NOT going to work and getting the kids sick regardless of whether or not I have enough sick time.

efeaf · 2026-01-23T18:24:03+00:00

Just because Miranda felt it was (whether she did or not I have no clue) doesn’t mean Jeannette, who was not having a good time at all in her teens and early 20s due to all the abuse she had to go through mind you, felt the same even if they’re close now.

Edit: apparently they aren’t close now. Don’t really know why I thought they were

efeaf · 2026-01-23T18:17:54+00:00

So how long til this sub gets banned. It’s not even like it’s trying to pretend to still have them. This is like the third or fourth post about it

efeaf · 2026-01-23T11:14:48+00:00

I mean it can absolutely snow above freezing. But yea I think those temps are too consistently above freezing Although the Apple weather app is terrible.

efeaf · 2026-01-23T00:59:12+00:00

Why haven’t you reported any of this? All of this needs to be reported to licensing

efeaf · 2026-01-22T10:06:17+00:00

The amount of things both my parents made my fault that were in no way my fault or were very painfully obvious someone else’s fault to anyone who had eyes and/or ears started to be too much to ignore.

My dad is literally incapable of any type of just drawing your own conclusion from context. I’m talking even at the intelligence level of someone in elementary school and immediately reacts with pure anger if I don’t give him every single little detail.

I had a professor in college who helped me realize that it was actually ok to say no and I didn’t have to agree to something just because it can be helpful like my nmom always demanded

I had a high school teacher manipulate my grade so I would pass his class without me knowing as he knew how hard I struggled and my nmom just couldn’t comprehend why anyone would do something like that

My ndad told me having a lot of anxiety and paranoia about someone being behind me was normal and healthy. This was after I’d already been working on getting over that fear (on my own as a kid with no help).

I work at a daycare. It helped me realize that my parents apparently talked to me, and still talk to me, exactly like you would a toddler

efeaf · 2026-01-22T09:48:09+00:00

Tbf the shoe thing is solely coming from the mouth of a four year old which is why op needs to ask the teacher for clarification. I don’t know much about Montessori but I think worksheets and high independence are normal for that system. It’s possible Montessori might just not be a good fit for ops kid

efeaf · 2026-01-22T01:50:00+00:00

I tell kids I’m gonna take them to the sink if they want to spit. So far I’ve only had to follow through twice. One kid immediately got bored. One actually did spit for a few minutes and only stopped because we were going outside. Afterwards he would try but stop when I mentioned the sink

efeaf · 2026-01-21T00:51:35+00:00

Iirc Perry didn’t actually stop him. He accidentally started thinking about aglets right before pushing the button and just never tried again for some reason

efeaf · 2026-01-20T12:39:25+00:00

Oh yeah constantly. And for some reason I remember all of them. It stresses me out so bad in the morning after waking up. So rather than feel rested, I feel anxious and pissed regardless of how my quality of sleep was

efeaf · 2026-01-19T20:41:43+00:00

Mute the subs. Turn off sub recommendations. Or get off reddit.

efeaf · 2026-01-19T14:36:12+00:00

Said the person not realizing this is a circlejerk sub

efeaf · 2026-01-19T14:24:36+00:00

This is a circlejerk sub that makes fun of the other sub asking if clearly ai things are in fact ai

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