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Does anybody have one of these and have experience they can share? Do you think they’re too dangerous? Do you think they’re wonderful?

I’m looking to add (actually rotate in) some new gross motor activities to my classroom. We have a mixed age of 1 to 3-year-olds. We currently have classroom push bikes from community playthings that they love, classroom Ybikes that no one ever uses, a largish wooden slide from Ikea that they use continuously, a smaller ball pit that we don’t use a ton right now, a set of vinyl foam climbing shapes that we use in various ingoing ways. A low table people like to limb up on, large hallow community playthings blocks, a cozy cube that literally no one ever goes in. We redesign a lot, make forts, obstacle corses, nests.

I’m ready to rotate and some other large motor components. What do you all love?

The things I have my eye on are the classic rocking wooden boat that you can twist over to make a stair set, a crash pad, one of those inflatable canoes that you can get in and be sort of smooshed. A Pikler labyrinth that is sort of a tunnel that you can climb through pop out of and climb onto.

We spend most of our day in a large play yard or in the woods. But we need some new fun in the classroom. Love to know everyone’s thoughts and experiences.

I own a home daycare and so we need spotless and disinfected counters. Also, as you can imagine they continue to get dirty throughout the day.

Here’s my question, I feel like I’m a pretty thorough cleaner, but after I wiped down my counter I often find that I feel a bit of something on there or a piece of dust. I want them to feel fully completely clean and obviously be fully completely clean.

What do all you fancy cleaning experts do?

Edit to say… we currently use either Clorox type wipes or Aldi disinfectant spray cleaner with a clean dishcloth we grab from the clean bin, that we use only once and then put the in the “dirty bin”. Then I often spray with a bleach and water solution (ratios we are given from our state licensing agency). But I only spray the bleach when the children are not near.

What happens is that I often feel a film or bits of debris even after cleaning.

I own what is considered a large home daycare and we are state licensed. We cook all the food here. It’s primarily organic Whole Foods with a seasonal shifts. But it’s not always that sometimes for snack it’s applesauce pouches or rice cakes, etc.. I think we do a pretty good job. But I have one family who has a lot of food requests. They don’t want their child to have salt. They don’t want their child to have any sugar. They don’t want their child to have anything that’s very munchy. And when they come here if they ever come when food is being served, they take bites of their child’s food. to me it always feels a little bit strange. This evening they were having snack. It was quesadillas with beans and cheese, cucumbers, and avocado avocados. The parents came both of them at the same time and picked up the kid. But then they both started eating all the food off his plate. Somehow it makes me feel uncomfortable? Or a little bit odd. I guess it’s maybe because I cook it and it feels like they’re making sure to get all the moneys worth? I know I’m making a big deal about it, but it makes me uncomfortable probably cause I’m afraid they’re gonna critique what I’ve cooked.

I have a home program and our rule is 100 and above is fever. Must have a reading below 100 with no fever medicine for 24hrs before returning to school.

a 10 month old has had a temp of 100.5/100/99.9 off and on since yesterday 2:20pm. She stayed home today. The parents texted me an update that she had a 100.5 at 7am. They gave motrin right then and then it went right down to 98.7. She has not had more Motrin and temp has stayed below 100. But she is still in the motrin window. They want to send her back to school tomorrow (8am start) if her temp stays. This seems borderline to me?

Wondering other parents thoughts on this. I have a 14-year-old daughter who was diagnosed with an attentive ADHD this year. She does ballet modern dance three times a week. Each class is about two hours. Dance has been an important part of her life since she was three. Post dance class is usually her best moments of the week. Meaning, most clear, happy, grounded. It’s also her main form of exercise at this point now that school is over and Field hockey is done.

But here’s the thing, at least once a week she tries to get out of dance. Like super argument. Usually there’s tears. Actually, I’d say once a week in recent times she has gotten out of dance. Part of that is because she goes to a school with a lot of homework and sports expectations. So sometimes it’s felt appropriate to not make her go. But now it feels less appropriate because Summer is here and it may be like the one man ask of the day. What do you all think? I wanna do what’s right for her big picture.

I own a small preschool and I believe that we may be relatively high interface with the parents…We have most of the children M-F, 8am-5pm. Age range 1.5-3.5. We are a primarily outdoor program, do cooking twice a week, have visiting special teachers. We also have more specific gear/clothing requests because of being primarily outdoor.

I note all this because we have a lot to share with the parents due to the daily experience variables in our program model. Also the children are here all day every day and I feel compelled to be in active communication with the parents so that they know how the child’s day was and how they are doing, so that we can partner in support of the child’s best interest.

We do a daily text report including pictures with both general and specific daily notes (if needed). We have a very quick conversation at drop off, just on how the child’s sleep and morning went. We have a 5ish mi conversation at pick up, sometimes less, some hang out much longer and chat more.

I want to be the most effective I can be in communication. Including being conscious of the parent experience. I worry it may be too much. What have you all learned, experienced, felt is successful?

I own a small preschool and I believe that we may be relatively high interface with the parents…We have most of the children M-F, 8am-5pm. Age range 1.5-3.5. We are a primarily outdoor program, do cooking twice a week, have visiting special teachers. We also have more specific gear/clothing requests because of being primarily outdoor.

I note all this because we have a lot to share with the parents due to the daily experience variables in our program model. Also the children are here all day every day and I feel compelled to be in active communication with the parents so that they know how the child’s day was and how they are doing, so that we can partner in support of the child’s best interest.

We do a daily text report including pictures with both general and specific daily notes (if needed). We have a very quick conversation at drop off, just on how the child’s sleep and morning went. We have a 5ish mi conversation at pick up, sometimes less, some hang out much longer and chat more.

I want to be the most effective I can be in communication. Including being conscious of the parent experience. I worry it may be too much. What have you all learned, experienced, felt is successful?

Wondering what other programs do when they are starting out on the potty training journey. We are a large home daycare program. We have historically had a group where the large majority of kids were potty trained, and we had one or two who got potty trained pretty quickly after arriving at school because of group mentality. But this year, I have a younger group and most will be ready this summer.

As the title states. I do a daily report for all under 1y and often a bit longer. I will add notes specifically for certain things that we are watching/logging for older ages, such as notable BMs or sippy cup learning.

We like apple slices, cheese bites, chicken nuggets…

Apologies in advance for the length

Wondering what others think about this situation. I have a larger home day care. I have had this baby in my care since he was 4 months. He will turn one in a week. His parents and I have a very solid relationship and I maintain a lot of communication. He is their first baby. He is on formula and has meals and snacks available but doesn’t eat a lot while there(even for a baby).

He has always hung out on the almost constipated or constipated end of the spectrum. He regularly goes three days without pooping. When he does poop it is often impacted. Leading up to the day that he finally poops he will be notably grumpy and uncomfortable. He will want to eat less and does not want to bend into a sitting position.

He’s also delayed in terms of his gross motor. He gets himself around by laying completely flat on the floor, feet crossed and pulling himself along by his arms. He really protested learning to sit, as if it hurt to be in that position. But he does now sit. Still choosing to lay on stomach. He also seems tight in his hips. He doesn’t seem to know exactly how to stand with weight on his legs. Its not the weight of it, its the position. If you stand him up on his feet while holding him, he puts his feet tightly together and just wobbles back-and-forth while you hold him. He doesn’t automatically put his feet out at a wider stance. I finally had them seek early intervention after speaking with them for months. So he is now starting services for that, mostly at school with me. Although the parents will be preasant for some visits.

I have talked to the parents about the constipation at least five times. They don’t seem very open to hearing about it or They do not seem to take it seriously as an issue. They seem to think it’s just how he is. I’m aware that babies poop in different routines and cycles. But I can tell you as someone who is done this for 20 years but this is actually constipation. Yesterday he wouldn’t eat or have a bottle for almost the entire day. Yesterday night at home he did have two bottles in the evening. Yesterday in general and the day before yesterday, he was super grumpy. No signs of any other reason like teething.

Today he pooped. Although the poop had been smooshed by his diaper, it’s clear to me that it was a rather large and wide poop. It was also a very hard. Dark and stinky. The most concerning thing to me was that when I went to change his diaper, his poor bottom (don’t know what’s appropriate to say here) was red and looked painful. It was a bit upsetting to be honest it made me feel pretty uncomfortable and sad that that was happening to him.

What would you all do? How might a effectively talk to them about this?

I actually placed a order on door dash so I didn’t go myself. Before I places the order I came here! I love so much of what we got! Love the multi grain bread, the peanut butter cups, the cheddar cheese, the cold brew was fine. ….what else are must haves?

I have a mixed age group, we try and buy mostly board books or board book versions of books, we also buy library binding when possible. We rotate our books and the ones that we want to try and protect we mostly keep up. We have a large bookcase, which is forward facing, and the children have free access to most of the rest of the books. It’s important to me that people can read whenever they want to and they are encouraged to do so by the set up. But our books can end up sometimes getting so trashed. Does anyone have good tips? Or are we just repairing and replacing as needed along the way?

My daughter is 14, every time I research the need for supplements in the vitamin B family I get overwhelmed and confused. Can anyone give a recommendation for a comprehensive quality vitamin B supplement? And any other things that you think are really helpful? She is currently taking Ritalin and Wellbutrin, we are about 4 months into this