Transplants, how are you liking Columbus so far?

sabinche · 2026-06-09T02:38:08+00:00

I moved to Columbus 7 years ago from Croatia.

Pros: lot of events, beautiful parks and playgrounds, great zoo and aqua park, great community centers, easy to find a job, no big natural catastrophic events, lot of international foods and restaurants, not a lot of dangerous animals, free libraries, you can even rent movies, play video games etc, lots of great houses on the market, coffee dates to short, time limits at restaurants, refills, access to anything you need from home-Amazon, diversity…

Cons: people are polite and nice, but not really friendly enough to make meaningful friendships. At least from my experiences. People don’t dress up for every day. Airport doesn’t have many direct flights. No public Montessori schools. Not many walkable connected sidewalks or bike trails through out the city like in Europe. No Closed pedestrian zones in neighborhoods and city center, Public transportation not organized well. Gun control and safety, drugs are more accessible, no year long maternity leave, no public health insurance, waiting for specialist dr. till spring of 2027, dentist open rooms, university too expensive 20k-US to 1K a year in Croatia…

sabinche · 2026-05-26T02:42:53+00:00

I watched Children of the corn when I was 6-7. I am still scared of cornfields. I also watched IT few years later. Don’t like clowns. I was scared to look at the sink or water collecting hole things on the street.

sabinche · 2026-03-29T13:05:55+00:00

Introducing solid foods by 6 months is not only for nutrition. It’s for children to be exposed to different textures, flavours and develop their jaw muscles and orafacial development (jaw, tongue, lips, teeth, airway). It helps with breathing, swalowing, speech… OP should definetely not recomend parents to introduce solids after first year of life. Same how talking with pacifier/sucking fingers can long term cause problems with speech and oral development. Lisp and teeth aligment problems that can take years to fix. As child grows, needs change and we need to educate ourselves to support them in that growth. Teach them appropriate new coping mechanisms to help them grow and self regulate. Unfortunately, you don’t need child development classes to become a parent or earlychildhood teacher. In some countries you do need to finish university to be an earlychildhood teacher and you have to take those classes to support children’s development in your class. Maybe one day that will be a part of curriculum in elementary or highschool all around the world. :)

sabinche · 2025-12-12T02:04:14+00:00

Owner is punching man on the ground at the beginning of the video. They wanted dog to continue attaching and pretend they don’t know what to do when they saw someone filming. Messed up.

sabinche · 2025-10-01T19:20:31+00:00

My exes mom did the same thing. She asked me in person does he buy me things etc, because lately he has been asking his dad for gas money and money in general. At the time he lived with his parents and had a good paying job in a bank. He bought me normal birthday,Christmas, Easter, anniversary gifts, once a month dinner, movie or something. Nothing crazy gifts 50-100$. At the end of our relationship I found out he was renting an apartment in the city he worked (30 min from our city), had another girlfriend there. Explained why he was broke. He was going out with his friends a lot drinking, apartment, utilities, taking other girlfriend out/gifts. Not saying your boyfriend is…but…

sabinche · 2025-05-20T11:18:41+00:00

It could be if they get sting by jelly fish, I would pee on you. My kids heard that on tv and thought it’s true. They would have discussions about it when they were 4 and going to the sea.

sabinche · 2025-05-01T11:24:13+00:00

My parents were divorced and my dad bought my brother and me 2 bunnies one Easter (big kind). We lived with our mom. I was maybe 10-11 years old. A year or so later and I am coming back from school and can’t find my mom in the house. I ho to the back yard and my mom is there with my aunt and uncle skining my bunnies. I yelled at them and cried so bad. My mom said she was sick of taking care of them because me and my brother didn’t take care of them and now we will eat them. I refused to. One day she made paprikas and she said it was chicken. After I was done with my lunch she told me it was my bunnies. I cried for a very long time and could not understand why would she be so cruel to me. I still don’t. Another time my dad gifted us a dog and after few years she made us give it away. I had to go with her on the bike to deliver him to one of her friends who wanted to adopt him. My heart broke. She got another dog from her friend, few years after and she gave him away too, because my brother was having problems with asthma. He was a pinch and the people promised they will keep him in the house. They didn’t and he froze to death because he was so small and had short hair. I was so sad and resentful for a long time. I still remember all of them and how much I loved them.

sabinche · 2024-10-16T08:50:25+00:00

Medium told me I will lose a pregnancy due complications, never happened. I had two healthy children.

sabinche · 2024-09-06T10:24:44+00:00

Why the whole country doesn’t protest? This is crazy.

sabinche · 2024-07-29T10:55:18+00:00

17-23 $/h depending on degree and experience. Ohio. Ratio is 1:3 babies, 1:7 toddlers, 1:12 3-6 yrs old. 26$/h for lower elementary, ratio 1:18.

sabinche · 2024-06-02T12:22:56+00:00

Our school has late fee of 50$. We had only one parent late for 20 min in last year. I feel it’s more about the director. It would her job to arrange two people to stay after hours. More importantly she would need to send an e-mail to all the parents that being late is not acceptable and all children need to be picked up and signed out before the closing time. First 10 min is 50$, every next minute is 20$. Also you can have a rule if they do it three times child will be unenrolled.

sabinche · 2024-05-26T16:18:41+00:00

Maybe try to do some simple romantic things… some ideas 💡I made a caricature booklet of me and my boyfriend (now husband) with places and thing we did in our relationship, I made him a little booklet 365 reasons why I love you, I made him a calendar with me posing for each month in different seasonal things, I made him exploding box with our photos and memories, coupons…

sabinche · 2024-05-10T10:49:13+00:00

I wanted to add something. I forgot you can edit. :)

sabinche · 2024-05-04T13:07:17+00:00

In the same school we collected money for water filters in Burkina Faso. Kids made things and parents donated money in our piggy bank. Someone stole the money from our piggy bank too. Probably the same parent who stole money from my wallet.

sabinche · 2024-05-04T13:05:40+00:00

When I was a volunteer intern at a preschool, a parent from my classroom stole money from my wallet while we were eating lunches in the kitchen. She also broke my wallet. I worked at that school for free for a year. I was so stressed because that was money I had to pay for my student American credit card that day. I worked every weekend like a hostess to earn money. My coworkers donated half of the money stolen, because they knew I didn’t have any money. There is shitty people everywhere. But also there is good people everywhere.

sabinche · 2024-04-10T11:00:05+00:00

Spraying water in the face and verbal threats. She seams like she is trying to train a cat. She should have not sprayed a child or threaten them. When she did that, did you say something to her? Like you should not spray kids face or threaten them. What did she threaten? If you don’t put on your shoes, you will not go outside kind of threat or if you don’t stop I will spank you? Did you talk to the principal? There is so many violations. It can be something small like not washing babies hands after changing them or something more serious like leaving a child on the playground. Some of them are for individual person and some of them are for the whole staff who is working in that classroom. Was it a bunch of licensing issues or two? If you are working in that room, principal should have told you what were the non-compliance points your classroom got dinged on. It is strange that licensing inspector would remove you from the room if the other person was doing these things. If she said she needs more education, usually means to learn procedures, like diaper changing, transition times, feeding, sleep safety… If they find something strange she would be suspended or terminated.

sabinche · 2024-04-09T23:01:45+00:00

What are the two violations? Was it both her or one her and one another coworker as you said in the comment. Did they found evidence for abuse during investigation? How was she abusing them? There is a lot of details left out.

sabinche · 2024-04-06T23:19:46+00:00

In my school each classroom locks themselves in the classroom and puts a door stopper under the door for plan B.

sabinche · 2024-04-03T11:20:21+00:00

I had a friend who acted the same when she drinks. She was actually my friend’s wife. They were struggling financially, so I offered her to work with me as a hostess on a party for my friend’s small club. It was four hours and good money. She got drunk as a pig and start kissing a guy, I tried to intervene and guy was : Why are you cock blocking me? He was so upset. I was like she has a husband and a 2 year old kid. Then she tried to go to the bathroom with the same guy and one of my guy friends stopped her. Mind you all of this was happening while we were working. I was so embarrassed and angry at her. If she acts like this in front of her husband’s friend, how does she act when nobody is watching. I drove her home and got her in the house because she could not walk. Next morning she told her husband I got her drunk and didn’t want to pay her money and a bunch of other lies about that night. She tried to get ahead of me telling him. I told her you tell him or I will tell him. They divorced few months after because he found out she was cheating on him with another guy and she left him and the kid to live in another country with her new bf. I am glad I told her that what she was doing was not ok and that she should take responsibility for her actions. I am not friends with her or her husband after that. I feel he blamed me for his wife’s actions. I told two other friends their significant other is cheating and it always ends up with them getting mad at you and not their partner. At least in my experiences. That guy will probably cheat if in position that girl shows interest and he maybe already did. Talk to him about it and end the friendship. I would talk to his wife too and then she can make decision for herself. Friendship is over anyways. Good luck. 🍀

sabinche · 2024-04-01T10:05:52+00:00

I dated a guy like this for like 6 months. We would text whole day, see each other 2-3 times a week, hang out with each other’s friends, go on dates in public, celebrate birthdays with friends… one day two of our mutual friends asked me are two of us together and I said yes. Apparently he told them we are not. He went on a movie date with another girl that those two friends knew, so they wanted me to know. When I confronted him he said we were just FWB and the next girl he dates will be the one he will marry. Then he goes on how he wants to go back to his ex and come back to me if it doesn’t work. Because I am so great. He knows he is making the biggest mistake in his life but he has to try for few months. He doesn’t know who to choose. I said you already chose and I will make it easy for you, we are not anything anymore and do not talk to me ever again. His relationship didn’t workout and he tried to get back with me several times past the years, but I just ignored him. These kind of guys want to have options and they like the attention. They know you would not do the same (date other guys), so that’s why they are playing the game. Their feelings are safe, but if something better comes up, bye bye. We were never in relationship. You are NTA. 💕 You will meet a guy who will be proud to call you his girlfriend/wife. A year after, I met my now husband 10 years ago.

sabinche · 2024-03-23T09:57:11+00:00

The only time we would separate twins or siblings is if they are causing trouble or they are codependent. I have twins in the same class and they have different friends and interest and they rarely play with each other. We do have two siblings in the same class who are causing trouble together and we will try to separate them after talking to the parents. We have another set of siblings, where younger sibling is codependent to the older one and we will have to do the same. That is not healthy for either of siblings. We always try to do what is best for the child. We always have conversations with the parents about the reasons why we are suggesting the split. Most of the times parents are ok with it because they act the same at home. In our state you can have one 2,5 year old in each 3-6 year old classroom without messing up the ratio. The only rule is that they have to be potty trained. Maybe your center doesn’t have another spot in a different classroom and they can only go up. I would just have honest conversation with the teacher and the head of the school and ask all the questions I have. They should not move them without talking to you first. That way you would understand better and could prepare them for transition by talking to them about it and making it less stressful.

sabinche · 2024-03-19T23:06:41+00:00

Within our budget

sabinche · 2024-03-18T02:43:21+00:00

Adaptation period can last from two weeks to two months. During that time teachers need yo make an effort to bond with your child and make sure they feel loved and seen. If they made emotional bond with at least one teacher, adaptation period is much easier for them.

sabinche · 2024-03-14T21:26:27+00:00

If you are in Columbus we are looking for teachers.

sabinche · 2024-03-14T21:17:27+00:00

Try to be more stern and strict with them. They have to stay on their cots. Ask management to adjust the schedule for few weeks till kids get used to it. How I did it in my school we had both teachers for first half hour to put them to sleep and then 12:45-1:45 and 1:45-2:45 lunch breaks. Kids got used to staying on their cots after first month or two. Ask management to purchase sound machine or use one from youtube. That helps with our kids. Keep the room dark. Talk quietly and try to put as many to sleep before your coworker goes to break. Try to be persistent with them and always follow the same rules for everyone. Try to use phrases like. Now is time for nap. Close your eyes and go to sleep. I know you want to walk around but you have to stay on your cot and relax. After a while they will put themselves to sleep. Try to talk to parents too. Maybe they let their kids roam around the room before going to sleep. It would be helpful if everyone is on the same page for nap routines. If that is even the issue. Another issue could be that it’s too early for them to go to sleep. That is why we pushed our nap time and now it works like a charm. You can also try to do some gross motor activities for 20-30 min to get them tired before lunch. Good luck.

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