Should kids know how to write their own names before they start kindergarten? It’s no secret that many kids are getting left behind in the education system. When I was a kid, America was all about not leaving kids behind in this exact setting (when I was a kid, I thought that policy was about …
Seguir leyendo Kindergarten teacher has 1 student every year who has never colored, written, or drawn anything with a writing utensil before: ‘They have to be explicitly taught how to apply pressure to write on paper.’
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Overworked wife refuses to clean house on Friday night so that her lazy husband’s friends can come over Saturday morning: ‘I run a home-based daycare for 12 hours a day. This requires a lot of cleaning all day long.’
Why should she have to clean the house when she’s been cleaning the house all day long? Are you one of those people who are usually kind of blase about cleaning, but then freak out and clean everything when you’re about to have company over? If so, you’re just like me. I try to keep …
Seguir leyendo Overworked wife refuses to clean house on Friday night so that her lazy husband’s friends can come over Saturday morning: ‘I run a home-based daycare for 12 hours a day. This requires a lot of cleaning all day long.’
Working Dad Picks Daughter Up Late at 6:30 PM From Daycare That Closes at 5 PM After His Non-Working Wife Asked Him to Pick Her Up
Why didn’t the dad ask the mom to pick up their daughter? If you are in a dual-income household during the first five years of your children’s lives, you understand how difficult scheduling can become. If one of you works at night and the other works during the day, the division of labor within the …
Seguir leyendo Working Dad Picks Daughter Up Late at 6:30 PM From Daycare That Closes at 5 PM After His Non-Working Wife Asked Him to Pick Her Up
Daycare teacher tells 5-year-old student that she looks prettier without her glasses on Picture Day: ‘Lily flat-out refused to put her glasses back on.’
Why would you say such a thing to a little girl? The things our teachers say about us have a huge impact, sometimes bigger than what our parents say. If your teacher says that you’re not smart enough to achieve anything in life, you’re going to either believe that and live your life as if …
Seguir leyendo Daycare teacher tells 5-year-old student that she looks prettier without her glasses on Picture Day: ‘Lily flat-out refused to put her glasses back on.’
Mom gets 7-month-old daughter banned from daycare after being mean to male daycare worker
He has been an incredibly attentive caregiver, and this mom is discriminating against him just because he is a man.
Daycare director puts entitled helicopter parents in their place, awarding their 4-year-old Brody the same participation trophy as every other kid: ‘You’re telling me my son gets the same thing as the kid who picked his nose the whole time?’
Every parent thinks their kid is the star of the show. However, a line of entitlement is crossed when parental pride mutates into demands. A pair of helicopter parents at this daycare were known to be overly involved in their 4-year-old’s activities in preschool. Still, when the springtime play rewarded every kid with a participation …
Seguir leyendo Daycare director puts entitled helicopter parents in their place, awarding their 4-year-old Brody the same participation trophy as every other kid: ‘You’re telling me my son gets the same thing as the kid who picked his nose the whole time?’
Dad gets daycare teacher fired after she lets her students watch Veggie Tales: ‘Now there’s a backlash against me. It’s all my fault she got fired. They’re just animated vegetables.’
She didn’t get fired because she showed her students Veggie Tales. She got fired because she couldn’t stop lying. The question of whether parents should choose the kinds of books their kids read in school is a contentious one, especially in the United States today. Many parents feel they should be able to veto any …
Seguir leyendo Dad gets daycare teacher fired after she lets her students watch Veggie Tales: ‘Now there’s a backlash against me. It’s all my fault she got fired. They’re just animated vegetables.’
Mom refuses to top up diapers for home daycare provider sister-in-law, gets offended when her daughter is rejected from daycare: ‘Moms forget things sometimes’
Good babysitters are hard to find, so parents don’t want to get on their bad side. Childcare is a necessity for any family with working parents, or even just those who need some time away from the kids once in a while. Not everybody gets the luxury of making sure their kids have the best …
Seguir leyendo Mom refuses to top up diapers for home daycare provider sister-in-law, gets offended when her daughter is rejected from daycare: ‘Moms forget things sometimes’
Manufacturing manager refuses to allow his employee to bring her 7-year-old daughter to work: ‘I do not want the liability.’
There’s a big difference between bringing your kid to a boring office building and bringing your kid to a manufacturing plant. There’s a lot of debate about whether employers should provide employees with more childcare assistance. Many parents are forced to leave the workforce for the first couple of years of their kids’ lives because …
Seguir leyendo Manufacturing manager refuses to allow his employee to bring her 7-year-old daughter to work: ‘I do not want the liability.’
Father rushing to fetch older kids is pressured by wife to also pick up their younger kids early from daycare, despite being able to take them home herself 30 minutes later, forcing him to disrupt his whole schedule: ‘Not understanding her anger in this’
We’re not one hundred percent sure that the daily designated pick-ups seem to be the problem here…We’re no relationship counselors, nor are we claiming to be…but this whole ‘who’s fetching who’ situation seems a bit odd. This father has two older children from a previous marriage and two younger children with his new wife. Every …
Seguir leyendo Father rushing to fetch older kids is pressured by wife to also pick up their younger kids early from daycare, despite being able to take them home herself 30 minutes later, forcing him to disrupt his whole schedule: ‘Not understanding her anger in this’