u/drpepperprincesss

I’m in a mixed aged group class with one year olds and infants. There’s 2 teachers currently and we’ll soon be getting a 3rd teacher starting tomorrow.

My Co teacher does not help me at all with the toddlers. She ONLY caters to the 3 infants we have in class. She will sit in a rocking chair for her entire 5 hour shift and will only get up to feed, change, or play with the babies for a minute. Leaving ME to feed, change, interact, teach and play with the 6 toddlers we have in class. It’s frustrating me SO BAD!!! My director already came into class and told her she needs to help out more and she still barely pulls her weight. I help her with the infants as much as I can and she never returns the favor.

I was formerly just a ones teacher before we started accepting infants two months ago, she used to be a twos teacher. So the toddlers in here are of course more familiar with me and they all gravitate to me while they basically ignore her existence, they cry for me and not her because they barely even know her!!! It overstimulates me and she sees I could use some help but would rather sit and wait for me to tell her what to do than just get up and do something on her own for once.

I called out today and my boss calls me asking about whose bottles are who…..I haven’t had labels lately and i’ve been writing on cups with permanent marker that must’ve washed off obviously. But WHY are you calling me about cups when the other teacher in class should already know who’s is who??? She doesn’t know because she doesn’t do anything with half the class!!! Even when it comes down to cleaning, she will sit there not doing anything kids are going down for nap, the lunch table is filthy and i’m stopping to feed an infant a bottle. WHY WONT YOU PICK UP A BROOM?? A TOWEL??? she literally just sits and waits for one of the infants to need assistance and will not do anything else regarding other kids.

She won’t use the Procare app for anything else expect for logging infant care. Won’t text parents when there’s no formula, or wipes or diapers, leaving me to communicate with them 90% of the time. She lied to my boss when I caught her making a bottle with nothing full of rice cereal and water and GAVE IT TO AN INFANT!!!! She opened a can of empty formula and common sense didn’t tell her 1. to ask if he had anymore and 2. check in his cubby to see if he had extra, she just poured cereal in it and fed it to him!!!! the bottle was so brown, I took it from the baby and poured it out like wtf? Why didn’t she say anything???

I am so sick of this teacher. I’m glad i’m not here today because my boss is in class with her right now so she’s forced to get up from that chair and actually WORK today. I don’t think she has any business being in this class, she has little experience with this age group and I can tell the crying nonstop bothers her. It’s why she sits and holds one baby basically all day, she refuses to put her down because i’m there and I can do all the actual work by myself. When she was a two year old teacher she did nothing but sit in a chair! 🤦🏽‍♀️ Im so over it

Hey everyone. I’m a one year old teacher ages ranging from 14 - 24 months. This post is concerning my one year old who’s turning 2 in about two weeks from now.

I don’t wanna label him as difficult, but he is a challenge for sure. He started at 15 months old and I already noticed some signs of a possible delay in development. At first he wouldn’t talk (he babbles now), doesn’t wave hello or goodbye still, doesn’t understand the concept of a high five and doesn’t seem to acknowledge others. You’ll speak directly to him and it seems as if he’s ignoring you but I know he can hear, he had some hearing issues in the past that got fixed, he reacts to loud noises and familiar sounds. (like the bluey theme song) and he JUST started responding to his name 3 months ago, but all he’ll do is glance at you and go back to what he was doing before.

He climbs on everything, climbs out of his playpen throughout the entire 3 hour nap if he isn’t sleepy. No matter what redirection methods we’ve tried the entire time he’s been here hasn’t worked. You physically remove him and he’ll go back to climbing on things multiple times. My director hopes he’ll be ready by the summertime……..but i don’t know what to do. He refuses to learn new skills, can’t follow simple directions such as come here or sit down or even telling him to look at something doesn’t work. He still comes to daycare with a bottle and a bib on at nearly two, I gave him a sippy cup and he still doesn’t know how to drink from it.

I’m at a complete lost right now. I feel like I don’t know how to help him so I just let him be most of the time. His mom laughs everything off and labels it all as cute…….Im not sure if he’s on the spectrum i’m not a doctor so i’ve never done the work on that nor does my director train us on neurodivergence in kids (she has a very old school….almost ableist attitude towards autism) and she hasn’t been much help with him either. Anyone got any ideas on what I should do??? What i’m doing wrong??? Thank you

Edit: Nap time is 2 1/2 hours, not 3.