Questions tagged [daycare]
Social interactions, subject matter addressed, safety at daycare centers, choosing a daycare center, staff behavior, and other issues related to daycare centers.
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At what age should I enroll my child in daycare in Denmark?
I have been offered a contract for work and we are planning a move with my wife and ~7 month daughter to Denmark about 2.5 months later. My daughter will be about 10 months old then. My wife wants to ...
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Settling in toddler in daycare
We've just started daycare for our 2 year old toddler, and on the first day of settling in, he cried so bitterly that he made himself sick (puked) and we were advised to take him home. And on the ...
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21-month-old crying for hours starting at the daycare door
My question is similar to a previous one in that my 21-month-old boy cries miserably at the door of his daycare room every morning. The difference is that the crying continues all morning—at least ...
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Is it normal for a 3.5-year-old child to get sick every month?
My son is now 3.5 years old and had recently started going to play school. Ever since, he had been getting sick approximately at a rate of once every 4-5 weeks. Each time it is the same story, he gets ...
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How to help a 2-year-old settle in day care where a foreign language is spoken?
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Our son is starting daycare in a country where the language is (almost) completely alien to him. Can we do anything to help him settling in this new environment? (full story below)
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How to make my 3.5-year-old stop pinching his teacher, classmates, siblings and parents?
My 3.5-year-old son has been pinching every now and then. We have another 2-year-old daughter. Recently, the problem has been getting worse, he has started pinching/scratching his teacher in the pre-...
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Raising a bilingual kid in monolingual community
I speak to my kid in 2 different languages at one time now . I used to speak to him only English and his mom our native language for 2years now but seems it didn't work so I decided to communicate the ...
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Tips for helping my 4-year old daughter transition classes at daycare?
We've been sending our daughters to the same daycare for a couple of years now. Our oldest just turned 4, and is 13 months ahead of her sister.
A few weeks ago, our daycare moved kids "up" in a ...
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Long hours in new kindergarden?
Our kids (age 3 and 4) are currently in day care Monday to Thursday from 9 to 14. Our 3 year old sleeps during the nap time while our 4 year old only rests but does not fall asleep.
We are ...
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What to do about an overly confident 4.5-year-old who retaliates at nursery?
Our 4.5-year-old son has recently been getting into trouble at nursery. On three separate occasions now we have been called in to speak to the teachers there as he has done something naughty. This has ...
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Are my 5-year-old's behavioral problems at daycare normal? [duplicate]
My five-year-old son will be six in August. It's been a rollercoaster ride since he's been two. I'm feeling lost and failed as a parent. Me and his father are divorced since he's been two and we keep ...
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My son isn't smiling back at us anymore when we pick him up from infant care
We began to send our 3month (almost 4 month) old son to infant care. The first two days are half-days only. On the second day, after we picked him up from the center, he didn't smile back at us as ...
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When I start baby cereal, should I pump extra milk?
I'm sending bottles of pumped milk to daycare for my 5-month old. When we start her on solids, do I send extra milk to mix into her cereal, or do I keep sending the same amount of milk, some of which ...
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How to teach a 17-month-old to chew food?
I have a 17-month-old at our daycare. He doesn't chew off food or even chew food. His food is cut up into small pieces and he just swallows that way. How can we help him learn to chew his food and ...
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How to study with a small child?
I'm pretty sure the answer is in a word: daycare, but I just thought I'd check if there was another way. Daycare is probably what we are going to go with; but I thought I'd just check my other ...
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How to stop my 4-year-old from having tantrums at preschool?
My 4-, soon to be 5-, year-old daughter has temper tantrums at preschool. She does not have them for me and has not had them for me for the past couple of years. I never fed her temper tantrums. It ...
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How can I help the Bitten?
In her creche, my 2-year-old daughtergot severely bitten by three different children now with a couple of months between each incident-cluster. The first biter moved to a different creche soon after, ...
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How can I supplement my Pre-K child's education?
My 4 year old is in Pre-K. She is the youngest in her grade too.
I have consistently had preschool and Sunday school teachers tell me for the past 2 years how mature she is in class. She shows other ...
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I feel like a failure for sending my child to nursery - is it too early to send them?
When my wife and I were trying for kids, we were both on good salaries, and it was hoped my wife would be able to be a stay-at-home mum to raise our child until three years old when nursery would ...
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potty training 3 days method - 22 months old - daycare problems
We started potty training (22 month-old boy) about a week ago using a variation of the 3 day potty training method.
He was ok at home: 5 days diaper free, about 1-2 accidents a day. Usually I ask him ...
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How to provide the most support to children as an 'uncle' with only monthly visits
As a side effect of some volunteering I do, I find myself playing something of an 'uncle' like relationship for some of the children of women I've volunteering with. I love children and am more then ...
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How can I encourage my home schooled children to be more confident in the open?
I have 3 nieces. Two are twins aged 4 and one is aged 2. My sister is home schooling them and she has started with so many activities and lessons for them in the house.
Problem falls when she takes ...
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Returning to work quickly - how does feeding work?
My partner is looking to return to work soon after giving birth. We both work, so we'll need to find someplace that looks after baby whilst we are out all day.
The question we have is how does the ...
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Does too much or too little exposure to infection affect long-term immune health?
Every time our children spend time with a group of other kids, there's at least one with the sniffles or worse. It's tempting to shield them from such sources of infection, but (leaving aside the non-...
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Babysitting vs Childminder vs Playschool for 1-year-old twins
I am not sure as to what to opt for. My twin girls have completed their 12 months of age. This whole year I have not been able to sleep properly or have my alone time. I love them a lot and instantly ...
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How do you do nap time if some kids want to be rowdy and others need to sleep?
I do home day care, but this could also apply to people with mixed age kids. I have twin girls aged 18 months who I think need to nap in the morning and also later in the afternoon. My 10 month old ...
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Trilingual child: How to make toddler more confident to speak third/local language?
Our son is almost 3 and speaks decent Spanish (my language) and French (father's language) for his age. We have been using one person one language. But at childcare he practically does not speak the ...
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How can I stop Cyber Bullying and prevent this in future for my child? [closed]
Actually I am afraid of using Facebook and other social networking sites as it fears me of Cyber bullying. Many tried to make my friends reputation down and by this I am also getting afraid of using ...
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How long did it take your baby to like daycare?
My baby started daycare at 9 mos. It's been two weeks and she still cries when we drop off and pick up. How long did it take for your baby / toddler to like day care and at what age did they start?
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Child suddenly saying things like I'm not his friend
In the last few days my 3yr has suddenly started saying things like "Your not my friend Daddy" and "Your naughty" and "I'm telling on you Daddy". At the moment it's not necessarily nasty and he soon ...
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What steps to take when a classmate of my 33-month-old bites him?
My son is 2 years 9 months old. He has a classmate of roughly the same age. The class is for kids under 3 and over 2.
That classmate bites or attempts to bite my son. My son is his only target in ...
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Son bites to defend himself. What can I do?
My 3-year-old son is biting to defend himself. I received a call from the daycare today asking what they should do. My son doesn't bite at home at all, he is only biting at school. For some reason the ...
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best age to start a daycare
If you had a choice to stay with your single baby at home as long as you want to, would you still send him to a daycare to communicate with other babies? What age is recommended for starting a daycare,...
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How should I prepare my son for preschool?
My son has been going to a small, in-home daycare since he was less than a year old. He enjoys it, but currently there are only 3 boys that are about the same age as him (ranging from about 6 months ...
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Nursery & Preschool and Schools
I think this is a question about 'how does this work'. We live in Norfolk, UK, and my toddler is coming up to 2. We understand that she should start attending some kind of nursery / preschool thing. ...
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When the three year old tells two unmarried, unrelated adults to hug and kiss goodbye - What then?
I baby sit a three year old regularly. When I leave he is asked to choose between a hug and kiss, a high five, or a fist bump as a way to see me off.
So, the other morning, when his Dad was leaving ...
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What to tell the child that says, "Mom, is Santa really real?"
I am not asking if it is okay to perpetuate the Santa Myth here. There is another question about that here. I am also not asking when this is likely to happen. That is answered here
I am asking ...
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Rough Nose is Painful to wipe - what to do?
There is a horrible cold going around so I have a couple of rough noses that need blowing and wiping that are attached to children for whom this has been pure torture. We have used moisturizers and ...
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To Socks or not to socks?
My own daughter mostly refused to wear socks - unless she had shoes on - until she was about five years old. Even now, she only wears them in the coldest months and rips them off her feet at the drop ...
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Three year old gags when he tries new foods
I spend a lot of time caring for a three-year-old that is a pretty picky eater. However, the stuff he does eat is generally fairly healthy stuff. Lately he has started gagging on food he isn't sure ...
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How do you address the bullying at the daycare your child tells you about?
My wife and I put our child through daycare. There's a child with issues, who has only been there for a few months. Lately, our daughter has been telling us what that other child has been doing.
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Is there a website where I can check reports on issues in a daycare in South Carolina?
Recently my daycare in South Carolina sent me a report regarding unattended child incident happened in another room. I am wondering is there a single resource that makes all of those reports ...
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How do we deal with potty training at daycare?
Our situation is that potty training is going well at home, but really badly at daycare. We have an appointment with the daycare staff next week to discuss strategies. My son, who is 2.5 years old, is ...
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How to encourage our 3-year-old, who has 100% "miss" at home, to use the toilet?
We started to potty train our 3-year-old daughter about a week ago, after she showed the initial signs by asking to wear underwear "like mom and dad". We explained to her it means she must use the ...
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How to make my 20-month-old son stop biting other children in the kindergarden?
My 20-month-old son bites other children in the kindergarden. He does it in the course of play, and sometimes he bites me, too. The kindergarden teacher says, this is normal, it's just an episode.
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Two year old starting creche, completely hyper when he comes home
Our son (2 years & 9 months old) is starting creche, we've had some "introduction days" where we drop him in for a few hours each day to become accustomed to the change.
Normally he's an ...
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Pros and cons of putting an infant in a Daycare
My kid (not born yet) has both parents working.
I have the choice of calling up my father in law to stay at our house to watch the infant of 5 months and I also have the choice of sending the kid in ...
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Does daycare mentally damage children under three?
An article in The Times and plagerized here suggests that it may do children permanent mental harm to be left in nursery (daycare) when under the age of three.
Jonas Himmelstrand, a Swedish ...
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Is it reasonable/common for a daycare to show TV shows during the day?
My son is 18-months-old and he is in a daycare room with kids 16-months to 2.5 years. Most days when I pick him up they are watching TV. The shows range from somewhat educational (Dora, Sesame St.) ...
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What qualities should one look for when choosing picture books for young children?
Many picture books wind up on children's bookshelves that are only looked at a few times and then they sit there collecting dust - never revisited.
Buying books for kids (especially when they aren't ...
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