Hot answers tagged daycare
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This sounds totally inappropriate and a major warning flag. Both my children have been through numerous childcare centres/kindergartens/ELCs and none of them even had a television.
The American Academy of Pediatrics have "that parents should limit the amount of time their infants and toddlers spend in front of any sort of screen and reaffirmed earlier ...
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For a professional, dedicated daycare, it is absolutely inappropriate.
For in-home daycares, though, it may be difficult to avoid.
As Dave mentioned in his answer, the clear recommendation is that there should be no television exposure before the age of two, and after that the amount of television exposure, if any, should be heavily restricted.
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Offer him a "routine" to give him a sense of control and time to transition. A repeatable routine would give him a chance to smoothly "wrap up" what he is doing mentally and help him switch contexts.
Try something along the lines of, "Hi (term of endearment and name) I'm here, you have about 10 minutes to get ready to go. Can you show me what you are ...
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As a child care provider I found this to be quite common in both the two's classroom and the threes classroom so the information that it "usually ends around two" is not accurate in the reality of my experience.
What I would suggest is two fold:
Your child does need reassurances from you in your words and behavior. Are you having a hard time with the ...
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Some of the main proponents of attachment theory, which is a theory of how children develop a relationship with their primary caregiver and how that impacts their relationships throughout the rest of their life, are generally opposed to daycare, as described in this article. If you look into attachment theory and daycare you will find more information from ...
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first of all, I want to say that I have tremendous respect for what you are doing. My wife is experiencing the same thing, so I know how it is. The way I see this, is that your little one is passionate and curious. But he does not understand the world he lives in. My daughter also bites, scratches, and hits. When it comes to discipline, there is not much we ...
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Ok, so this might be a stupid answer, but I had a similar situation occur with me when I was maybe 3 or 4. My mom arrived to pick me up from daycare, and I didn't want to go. I insisted that I wanted to stay and play more with my friends. So my mom said, "Ok, I'll be back to pick you up a little later, then."
At first, I was all cool with this. Then I ...
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Moving to a new house and changing the daycare are big changes, a new bed is a small change. Potty training can be either, as is so often the case, it depends...
I see three separate issues here:
Can you separate the daycare switch from the moving? If you can, you definitely should consider making them two distinct events, IMO
Moving means a new room and ...
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Remo H. Largo, one of the most eminent Swiss developmental psychologists, has the following opinion on the matter:
Children need continuity. It does not matter to them, who provides the continuous psycho-social care. Children grow up happy and healthy with their parents, a single parent, their grandparents, adopted parents, foster parents, or whoever is ...
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We have a 19 month old son so we're in prime picture book buying mode at the moment! We find that for our son to fall in love with a book, it has to meet at least one (and preferably both) of these two criteria:
A lot of action to look at; and
Pictures of things that he's recently learned (whether it's a new word or a new activity).
I'll give two ...
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I taught twos, threes and fours for a few years. There isn't a lot you can do about the stuffed toys except put them in the laundry every so often, but here is what I did in my classroom in regard to the plastic stuff.
Keep bleach locked away somewhere. At the end of the day put a capfull in a bucket of water and throw in the toys that were licked or ...
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In the particular area I live, it actually seems the opposite, here it seems a very common configuration is preschool with "extended day" care options, and full-day daycares that feature a preschool curriculum, whereas preschools that are "just" preschools are harder to find. What kinds of preschools are common probably depends a lot on the demographics of ...
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Basically, if the child still needs it, it is too soon to give it up. There is no medical or psychological evidence that there is an age too old for comfort objects, eg Lovey's. Many children keep them until they make friends at school. Comfort objects are very important for children.
Teaching children to cope with stress will help with transitions. Even ...
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Doing everything at once gets it over with in one go, but at the risk that it won't go very well.
I would changing one element at a time. Toddlers are a bit like people with autism; they like fixed patterns and repetition, any change can be upsetting. Especially when you're facing big changes, tread lightly.
I can't really say "do one change every two ...
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Similar to those mentioned earlier, we too have a routine to leave. For us it's the "push out" where he gets to push the parent out of the room. It lets him feel like he's in charge. We used to "wave at the window" but he's too cool for that now, only the two year olds do that (so he tells me). There's a triangle shape on the floor outside of the room, ...
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First, I'd establish a routine when leaving the day care/preschool. We have a routine called 'going to the window'-- the preschool/day care has a window overlooking the parking lot. Whenever the boy is feeling like he's being left behind, his teacher takes him by the hand and leads him to the window. Once there, he and I both wave to each other. Sure ...
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Similar to @Balanced - I bought my kids a few kilos of lego off eBay, and when it arrived I was a bit concerned with cleanliness. Some of the bricks smelled, some were sticky, some had obviously been outside in a sandpit etc.
So we filled a bath with water and some Milton (very mild bleach suitable for children's toys) and washed all the bricks.
To rinse ...
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Here is what I would try.
Considering the root of the problem is that he enjoys being with his friends, discuss this with the other parents and arrange that from time to time (e.g. twice a week) one or two other children (who are his best friends there) will come with you as well to your home for hour or so.
It can be different friend every time; It ...
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In my experience it is common, and even not uncommon to show movies during the day. I've seen this occur in both in-home daycares and larger establishments. The obvious benefit to the daycare or preschool is that it occupies the children and keeps them still for a while. In my opinion, it is totally inappropriate. I was livid to learn that at a ...
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When looking for children's Picture Books, One should consider:
The Child's Interests (fiction or non-fiction, genre, subject, etc.)
How engaging the pictures are
For what is the book intended? Will this be for bed-time? Self-reading corner? Is the purpose an educational one or purely fun (Is there a difference in your mind)? For books like bedtime ...
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Suggest you take the kids to the library every week and check a few books out (spend some time there too).
Soon you will see the ones that they really like. Create a list. Check them out again in 2 months, and if they still really like them, then go to amazon.com.
Even as an adult, books really appeal to me, but I realize that I do not have enough time ...
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Sooner or later your child will be playing with one of their friends who will comment on their security blanket / lovey. Depending on the age of the children, this comment will either be empathetic or derisory. IE, they will either relate to it, or think that it is babyish. Once your child knows that it is not the done thing, in the eyes of their friends, ...
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This is remarkably common. One of ours had the same problem - seems like a form of separation anxiety - where she would get really upset as she realised we would leave her there.
Working with the daycare assistants, we would try and make sure she was distracted while we slipped out. It was seeing us leaving that was the problem. Once we were gone she was ...
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You concern would be founded if there is pressure exerted, but believe it or not, you have objectives for your kids right away. By three months you expect them to begin holding their head up on their own (you gave your child tummy time to help facilitate meeting this objective). You expect them to start turning toward you when you call their name (you ...
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We had a very similar problem with our son and his child minder. If your nanny doesn’t already do it I would ask her to keep a diary for a few days detailing what they are doing and how his mood is and how he is reacting to her throughout the day.
You may pick up on something she is doing or not doing that differs from how you are with him that may be the ...
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You might try to let your son know that the neighbor is not an option. Maybe the problem isn't that he dislikes or is unhappy with the nanny. Maybe he just really likes the neighbor and wants to play with him. Once the kid knows that running off this nanny isn't going to get him the neighbor that he wants, just another nanny, maybe he will settle down and ...
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Rather than motor skills day care helps in improving independence, taking care of oneself and sharing, adjusting qualities. Since they have to share toys, they have to adjust to the other kids and they have to spend a large time of day without mom / grandparents who constantly fulfil their wishes, the qualities mentioned above improve. Also may improve their ...
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