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I am sending my now 22 month old to a part time preschool starting in September and I’m getting a little nervous. The preschool is 2 days mornings a week, 3 hours per day (for a total of 6 hours per week).

The reason I’m getting nervous is that she has a hard time adjusting to new people. For instance, last week we tried to do gym childcare and she only lasted 10 minutes one day and 5 minutes the next. This was with people she’s met before, and I did try to get her adjusted to the environment beforehand.

We do have a babysitter who comes every week who she does pretty well with. (I committed to having her come once per week because using a babysitter that came less often was disastrous). But I know that the preschool teachers won’t be able to give her one-on-one attention like the babysitter does.

Other things - she takes a long time to answer questions / respond to someone new. For instance when she was evaluated for early intervention, she didn’t do or say a single thing (the evaluation consisted of many questions for the toddler). She just… shut down.

Was anyone in a similar situation? How did part time childcare go? Anything I could do beforehand to help acclimate her? Or did anyone have any shy toddlers out there who became less shy? Thank you

To start: I know nothing about linguistics!

My question is: I’ve been noticing that people just use adjectives as nouns more often. Is this a trend that’s been happening lately? Is it considered “incorrect”, or is language evolving for some adjectives to become nouns?

For instance, someone might use the word “trans” as a noun, like:

“Democrats seem to care about trans more than bread-and-butter issues”

Or “postpartum”, as in:

“Men don’t understand postpartum” or “She has postpartum”

Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations for how to make it through summer as a fair-skinned parent (or with a fair skinned-child).

I would LOVE to be an outdoorsy mom who does some sort of outdoor activity every morning + afternoon, but I’ve already taken SO much sun damage from going to the park lately! (I do wear sunscreen, but every square centimeter I miss turns into a burn).

What are your summer plans? Do you have any strategies/products to deal with the sun, or are you finding indoor activities??