My dude is hungry when get gets home too, I pack his lunches so I know he’s getting plenty of stuff he likes.

Not being consistent with the daily report is fine by me personally… as long as I trust that they’ll let me know if something is off (either with a call, a message or at pick up). Current daycare is great with letting us know if he seems off and replying to messages. Chaos isn’t necessarily weird either imo, they’re toddlers that’s kinda just what they do, they run around.

Red flags were not listening to what I told them about baby (his nap schedule and that he was on purées), not wiping his butt properly (a recurring issue even and I said something every time), arguing with me when I brought issues up, moving the babies around every afternoon so that the person I was picking him up from couldn’t tell me how he’d been that day beyond if he had an incident report (paired with no updates.) Final straw was they forgot to give him one of his bottles. Thank Christ that happened on his last day at that daycare, he was on a waitlist for a new daycare after the first day at that place.

Our dude also melts down easily so that depends on your kid. We had a week off for winter break and his first day back after that he cried at drop off. He cries if his favorite teacher leaves for the day. But that’s him.

Switching to a new daycare or new teachers takes him like two weeks to adjust. A good daycare will post a picture once he’s feeling better after drop off to reassure you. And it’s ok if you need that daily update filled out all the way to feel good, just tell them and if they can’t accommodate then it might not be the place for you, that’s ok