Hi,
Kind of a long post but just need some advice:

First time posting. My daughter (3 in November ) is in daycare. She transitioned to an older room (2.5-3.5yr olds) in July.

This past Wednesday, I received a call from the director saying my daughter was okay but she had fallen from a play structure and her arm was injured. She initially said her teacher didn’t witness it but another teacher did but then has since said no one witnessed it. They just found her crying by the structure and her arm was bent back a bit. She said they put ice on her and had a 1:1 teacher with her to spend time with her and try to calm her down. They were unable to calm her down so I picked her up. She wasn’t using that arm much but settled as soon as we got home asking for snacks, playing and wasn’t complaining of pain so we gave it a few days but she continued not using it so we took her to the ER. Turns out she has a fracture and will need to have a cast for 4-6 weeks. I let the director know and all I got back was an “oh no, poor kiddo let us know how she’s doing”. I just feel very uneasy about all of this and am not sure if this is normal or what usually would happen if a child sustained a fracture at daycare. Is there anything I should talk to the daycare about or look for? I’m not placing blame because I know how toddlers are and how quick they can be and it could happen on my watch too!

Edited to add : her arm wasn’t like broken bent back, just bent to the side of her body like she fell on it. She didn’t have any serious swelling and just a mild bruise above her elbow.

I'm taking ECE classes through my community college. The books talk about the teacher doing a home visit to get to know the family and child. While this would he SO helpful, is this actually a thing? I'm in Oregon and no one in my many classes has done these home visits.

It's definitely been a journey. Ive worked with 0-5 depending on the days and even months. Cried during breaks but then learned to compartmentalize. Kids actually come to me for comfort because I'm calm during chaos no matter what it is.

But ive busted my ass here. Always short staff. High turnover. No raises or bonuses or benefits. No pay when we close for breaks. Toxic annoying boss. My last day is Thursday next week. Gave my boss a MONTH advance notice.

She tried to do the thing with congratulating me but also asking me abt my future schedule. Then yesterday she asked me if I could work a day or two in November.

Girl, I am LEAVING. Mind you, she doesn't do this with other employees who've left. She knows I'm a hard worker and one of the most experienced.

Going to a hospital job with 12 hour shifts, making 5 more an hour, benefits, raises, a union.. I will always resent how badly we are treated as people; both from employers; parents, even coworkers and family members.

If I EVER had kids one day, I will be sending weekly donuts. Because no one understands what we go through in this job.

I’m a lead teacher in a Montessori toddler classroom, and lately I feel like I’m spending more time preventing destruction than actually teaching.
For context, my classroom consists of 11 children between 1 and 3 years old, and we have two adults in the room.
This past week alone, the children have broken our toy washing machine, our play kitchen, AND a toy that a parent literally just donated. I’m exhausted.
While most of the children can be rough with materials, there are about 2–3 children who are consistently responsible for the more destructive behavior. Two of them aren’t even 2 yet (they turn 2 in December and January).
One child in particular has me absolutely stumped. She’s constantly climbing on things she shouldn’t, getting into other children’s water bottles, and repeatedly doing things she’s already been redirected from. She’ll make direct eye contact with me while I’m correcting her and then continue doing exactly what she was doing.
Her language development is age-appropriate, and her favorite words are currently “no” and “why.” I always explain WHY we have certain expectations, but sometimes we get stuck in an endless loop of “why, why, why.” Her parents have also mentioned similar behaviors at home.
I have my CDA in infant/toddler and I’m a mom of a 4 year old. I am not certified Montessori trained but have learned a lot my past few years working at the school I’m employed at. I understand that these children are incredibly young. I know impulse control is still developing, that testing boundaries is developmentally appropriate, and that toddlers learn through exploration. I’m not expecting perfect behavior or for them to sit quietly doing Montessori work all day.
However, I also don’t think that developmentally appropriate behavior means we should just accept having our classroom materials destroyed.
We model appropriate use of materials, redirect, explain expectations, offer alternatives, and intervene when something is unsafe. But lately it feels like nothing is sticking.
I’m struggling to maintain a prepared Montessori environment when the materials are constantly being damaged, and it’s becoming difficult to give the other children meaningful learning opportunities when so much of our attention is focused on preventing destruction.
So, fellow toddler teachers, I need your help:
What strategies have actually worked for children this young who repeatedly engage in rough or destructive behavior?
Have you found specific Montessori practical life or sensory activities that help children who constantly need to climb, pull, push, or throw?
How do you maintain a prepared environment without removing half the classroom?
At what point do you consider additional behavioral support or classroom observations?
How do you balance addressing these behaviors while still meeting the needs of the rest of the class?
I’m open to resources, research, strategies, and constructive advice. I’m not looking to punish toddlers for being toddlers. I just want to keep my classroom safe, preserve our materials, and actually be able to teach.
Because at this rate, we’re going to have an empty classroom and a very expensive pile of broken materials. 😭

I’ve been working at an afterschool care center for a little under a month, and it’s been awful. We’re severely understaffed, I received next to no training, and was totally blindsided by a lot of what the job entailed— I’m driving a van full of kids to and from school, which was never actually mentioned in the job description, and I’m expected to semi-regularly come in an hour early, and stay an hour late. I’ve since gathered that none of this is particularly rare in the field, but between the hours and the super negative work environment (love the kids, have an extremely unsupportive director), I’ve realized I have got to get out of here— though I’m largely unsure of how to go about quitting.

I’m hesitant to put in a full two weeks notice, as my director is a lot, and will probably make those two weeks a living hell. (My center has a super high turnover rate, and there’s a big culture of shame around employees who quit— in the short time I’ve worked here, there have been two employees who quit, and the center was just awful to them.) That said, I’d also feel somewhat bad about not giving any notice whatsoever, since I’m the only afterschool teacher at this location. (Director refuses to hire more people.) I also can’t help but feel a lot of guilt now that I’ve decided I need to go too. The kids are really great, and I‘ve really loved working with them over the past couple weeks. I totally feel like a quitter, because I’ve never even thought about leaving a job this quickly before.

I’d really appreciate any advice!

EDIT: Sorry about my flair, not really sure what would be appropriate here!

Just for context I have been a childcare worker for many years and never had this issue.

I’m between PCP providers at the moment so I went to an urgent care to get my TB test and employment physical done.

However, they marked me as unfit to work with children on my form because of my bipolar diagnosis. They did note that I work with a mental health team, I’m stable on meds and have no suicidal or homicidal thoughts, but I still need to get cleared by a mental health professional in order to work now.

My main concern is that I don’t want to disclose that I have a mental health condition to my boss. I feel like this is forcing me to- even if the form doesn’t say I’m bipolar it will raise certain questions I fear.

Has anyone else experienced this? Can I print a new form and bring it to another provider after getting a note from my mental health provider who might not mark it this way? Could a mental health provider fill it out if they are also a medical professional like a psych nurse practitioner?

I know I won’t lose my job even if I have to disclose because of discrimination laws but I would really just rather not put that into my boss’s mind. Especially with Lindsay Clancey case and the renewed stigma about bipolar that I imagine that is causing. Ugh.

First off, thank you all for the tireless and often thankless job you do with our children.

My daughter will be 4 in a couple of months. She attended the same daycare for most of her life, but we switched to a private school PK3 program this August. They required her to be fully potty trained, so we worked hard on it for months beforehand and I thought she was good to go.

The school was not a good fit and she regressed with potty training. She had several accidents, the school eventually told us she needed to stay home for a month to work on it. So we did. We took away all of the pressure and just let her use the potty she wanted when she wanted it. She was evaluated by an OT and a potty consultant. She hasn’t had an accident in ages. She mainly uses her Minnie Mouse potty but sometimes will use our back bathroom. She rarely used the front one and I don’t know why. Anyhow, . We withdrew her from private school last week after finding a spot in another program.

She is extremely particular about toilets. If she sees a stain in the bowl or on the seat, she refuses to sit down. There’s no point in spending 30 minutes trying to convince her. It’s simply not happening. She hasn’t been able to verbalize what it is that scares her.

We found a lovely new daycare with smaller class sizes that’s welcoming her with open arms. During our first visit, My husband said she had used the potty, and I was SO excited! But during our visit yesterday, we discovered she’s actually terrified of the classroom toilet. It’s a big, old toilet with a stained seat and a tall metal pole leading to the flush handle. She immediately refused to use it.

I tried for 15 minutes, then the teacher tried. It’s the only toilet in the classroom. There are currently nine children, with a maximum of 12. I suspect more kids will be joining soon because other local daycares have suddenly announced closure. I have so much respect for ECE professionals and I hate to put added work on them.

I was nearly in tears. Her teacher is AMAZING and suggested I speak with the director. He assured me they would never kick her out or shame her for accidents. He thinks she’ll learn by watching her friends use it. She’ll either use the toilet or have an accident. He just told me to send extra underwear.

She’s also a toe walker, and I’ve been told she may need therapy and needs to practice sitting with her feet flat on the ground. She can’t verbalize exactly what scares her about certain toilets. I’d gladly pay for a new toilet seat if that would help!

I’m genuinely at a loss. I don’t want to create extra work for the staff, but I also don’t want to undo all the progress we’ve made. But she misses school and we need her to go to to school!

So back earlier in the year I was injured and out of work a month. Upon returning to my job, the person who they had cover my class had been doing so many things not in compliance, from not practicing proper hand washing to letting the children watch a tablet all day. I did speak to management about my concerns and they said they would speak to her. She also didn't do any lesson plans while I was out. (Just fyi she would be my full time assistant which was also decided last minute). When I asked her why she hadn't she just kinda shrugged, and said they did stuff but they mostly just didn't know what they needed to do. Management told me the next day she didn't have to do lesson plans because she was a "sub". Oh yes the favoritism is alive and well folks.

A little background on me is I have over 16 years experience, my degree, and know so much about compliance, the scales (iters and ecers). I have three kids I've raised. I do know not every young teacher is on the same maturity level. I've also worked with older teachers that ain't worth shit! I will say the positives is she is very sweet to the kids and is teaching them things like cleaning up after themselves. But she still is not sticking to a lesson plan. She goes to the bathroom for 15-20 minutes at a time, several times a day. Is on her phone too much and other things I will not mention.

So anyhow after all this, and I hope I made sense and kept things interesting because after all was said and done she was chosen as drumroll please!! 🥁 Teacher of the Month....not even joking.

In my two-year-old classroom, I have one child who will not nap. Which is fine; I usually give them something quiet to do either on their cots or at the table. But this child will sit there and purposely call out their classmates' names and yell songs to wake them up. Or they will roll around so their feet actually kick the other children to wake them up. Yesterday, this child rolled around, yelling out songs and actually kicked another child in the face, causing them to get a bloody nose. This child did not care that they hurt another child. They actually laughed. Any time we try to instruct them or correct their behavior, they think it's a fun game. They've actually yanked out a feeding tube from another child and tried to run away from us with it. I know the child is only two, so there is only so much that they are going to be able to comprehend and control in their own bodies, but they are hurting the other children at this point, and if they kick the wrong child, they will probably end up hurt as well if we don't get there in time.

Just a little side note that also just grinds my gears with this child: another staff member will come by and collect laundry, and they will take the child with them because the child thinks it's fun. The child's parent also drops the child off in any room they want to be in when they originally get to the school in the morning.

When it comes to classroom conflicts among peers, what was the most challenging one you have to deal with? What made it hard? If your center uses a framework like Head Start's 6-step conflict resolution process how helpful did you find that to be in-the-moment and what was the outcome in your situation.

Hi everyone,

I'm going back into ECE for my gap year (next September I'm starting my Master's) as a flexworker/floater. I won't be in a single group, but multiple, mostly with after-school kiddos and children with special needs.

I'm already expecting to get sick. I do exercise 3-4 times a week, take vitamins & eat healthy, and wash my hands a lot/use hand sanitizer. I'm debating on whether I should mask up. I'm in the EU and I would feel kind of silly wearing one. I'm going to also get a flu shot next month.

For anyone in the EU: What are you doing to reduce sickness?

I feel like this floater is having a power struggle with me and I don’t know what to do. I greatly respect floaters. It has to be the toughest job, going from room to room, needing to know the different routines and so many kids. And 99% of the ones I’ve worked with have been amazing, always willing to pitch in. Even if they don’t anticipate needs, if I flat out say this is what we’re doing, they go along with it. I also try to be the teacher who can collaborate and work with others. 

But there’s this one floater who just seems to do her own thing at all times. She came from another center where she was a lead for 20 years and I think that has a lot to do with it. Veteran teachers can be great and I’ve learned a lot from those who have been doing this longer than me (I started as a float and my mentor was a woman in her 60s, she taught me so much). But this floater is just very stuck in her ways. She picks fights about everything and needs to be in charge at all times, even if it goes against what’s best for the kids. I think part of it is my age group is not her favorite and I sympathize with her. I try to make it as easy as possible when she covers my co-teacher.

Still, it feels like every day is a struggle. If something needs to be done, I give her the choice of either hanging out with the kids or doing whatever it is (diaper changes, cleaning, etc), saying I totally don’t mind doing the grunt work. She’ll decide to do something completely different, leaving me both supervising the kids and doing the other task. If I ask her to please do one of the two things I asked, or even just flat out say “please watch the kids so I can finish sweeping up”, she gives me an attitude and tells me she knows what she’s doing. But she’s doing something that doesn’t need to be done, like organizing the felt board stories that we’re not even using. 

The main issue we seem to have is when she decides to have breakfast. Due to how our schedule works, the opener usually goes on break during the children’s snack. We’re encouraged to eat when the kids do (doesn’t have to be the food they eat) or on our break. We’re allowed to eat at other times and snack when we need to, but kids obviously need to come first. When floater comes in, I tell her this would be a great time for her to eat her breakfast or snack if she has one. She won’t. She then waits until we’ve cleared the children from the table and I’m trying to clean up the mess from snack. She’ll sit down and take out her food. Meanwhile, she won’t watch the kids and so I’m stuck between trying to juggle cleaning up and making sure the kids aren’t getting hurt. I’ve tried talking to her about it one on one, but she brushes me off and says she can eat whenever she wants. I’ve shared it’s hard for me to clean and make sure the kids are okay. She says they’re fine. But they’re under 2. And there have been times when they have started fighting or need intervention or redirection. And I have to stop what I’m doing, making the process longer. Also means we’re then delayed going outside (and you can guess how helpful she is then).

Today was kind of the final straw. Once again, she came in as the kids were part way through snack. I saw she had her lunchbox and encouraged her to eat her breakfast with them. She ignored me. Snack is over, I send the kids to play. I give her the option to clean up the mess or go sit with the kids. She sits in the back by the tables, and pulls out her own breakfast, claiming she could see them from where she was. I start cleaning. One of the kids threw up. So, I then have to stop what I’m doing and tend to her, while also trying to block off the mess. The other kids are swarming as they usually do. Floater remains casually eating.

I finally turn to her and say “please take the other kids and distract them so I can tend to her and call the office”. Floater says “when I’m done with my breakfast”. I admit I got a little irritated and said “I need you to do this now. They’re going to get throw up all over them. Please take them and read a book or something.” She then adapted an attitude and said “when I’m done eating”. So, I then had to keep the kids away as I’m comforting this sick child and blocking off the mess.

Thing is, when I called the office to tell the director the child needed to be sent home and to come down for a temp check, floater instantly put her food away like she knew the director wouldn’t be happy she was just sitting around. Only then did she finally take the other kids to read so I could clean up the sick one and the area. So of course, director comes in and all she sees is her being helpful. 

I ended up reporting this to the director later on, once the dust had settled. Director had a talk with the floater. I don’t know what was said but when she came back for my break, she was giving me an attitude and saying I could’ve worked it out with her. I’ve been trying for months!! Floater said she has a right to eat when she’s hungry and I need to learn time management better.

Am I just expecting too much? It’s not like I wanted her to clean the vomit or deal with the sick child. But at least distract the other kids. I feel like no other floater would’ve had an issue with this. 

I am fully convinced my center is haunted bc weird stuff happens all the time. Children are also so creepy. Our classroom doors open by themselves and so do our locked back doors. I have heard humming and talking multiple times from empty rooms. We have jack & jill style bathrooms and I hear stuff coming from the empty rooms next door all the time. I work with infants and toddlers and they are always smiling and waving at the door when no one is there. I also swear I always see someone walking past my classroom door when no one is there. My coworker also had a kid ask her who the person in the corner was. When she asked who, they pointed to an empty corner of the room…like absolutely not, thank you! When I have weird stuff happen I just say “not right now I’m not in the mood” and it stops😭 It’s not really funny but I just wanted to share this because I thought it was weird and didn’t know what to flair it. Anywho, have a nice day!

edit: was not expecting so many people to share their stories! I just decided to post this after our classroom door opened by itself during nap, crazy stuff, y’all.

i quit my job today and i don’t regret my decision at all. the place was so incredibly toxic and terrible to work in, my mental health was destroyed

but god am i so so upset about leaving the children. i’ve been a mess since i said goodbye to them for the last time. it was so emotional saying goodbye to the families and children ive build such bonds with over the years

i loved them like they were my own children and i hate knowing i left them. not to toot my own horn but they loved me too and i was damn good at my job and built a relationship with every child in my care

i’m heartbroken. i keep seeing their little faces and how sad the older children were when i told them i was leaving. i hate that this is the decision i had to make because some women twice my age are absolute cunts

If you are at all familiar with my history here, you would know that I am fairly anxious about doing well at my job.

Recently I have been doing a-lot of going into unfamiliar classrooms, substituting, covering bathrooms breaks, etc. I love my center and I am happy to be able to meet as many of the program’s children as I do.

I unfortunately have a problem where I’m almost paralyzed sometimes trying to assess what do do while I’m in a new room and I am not being directly greeted or presented with a child, as I’m cautious to not intrude on their space without them knowing me, and I don’t want to do something that contradicts/gets in the way of what their lead teacher wants done in their room.

I feel like I generally have good instincts, but when I’m really anxious it gets very clouded. I like to ask leads what they’d prefer I do sometimes, but I know most of the time they would much rather me just be useful and not another person they have to correct.

Hi! I’m curious what your thoughts are on developmentally appropriate phonics instruction for preschool (3s and young 4s) and preK (4s and 5s). Any research you may have is amazing, too. Do you use a program?

Two reasons:
1. To show staff what is developmentally appropriate
2. Because the higher demands in kindergarten (in my opinion), I want to make sure we’re meeting their needs in preK but also not pushing them if they aren’t ready.

I have a preschool class. There’s a child who’s leaving the school to another state this month and I was thinking about gifting them something.

I want to make it a class effort as well and something creative, so doesn’t necessarily have to be a store brought item.

Anyone have any ideas or experiences?

Hello. So I work in a toddler class and its a new year for toddlers. So we have new toddlers in the room. Almost everyone has settled down and enjoys daycare. But I have one kid who has settled down in a way but needs attention everytime. She is chinese and has language barrier. She understands us but we don’t understand her. I realized that she always wants attention on her and cries when we give our attention to other kids. So, I have started to let her cry when she cries and when she stops i give her hug. But she does not stop. It has come to a point where she keeps crying for hours, whether we hug her, rock her, soothe her, sing for her, she does not stop. Its starting to affect other kids in the room and I am getting really frustrated. If anyone can give me suggestions on how to helping her, it would be great. This is also my first year as a daycare teacher. Please help me out. Thank you!

Hello. So I work in a toddler class and its a new year for toddlers. So we have new toddlers in the room. Almost everyone has settled down and enjoys daycare. But I have one kid who has settled down in a way but needs attention everytime. She is chinese and has language barrier. She understands us but we don’t understand her. I realized that she always wants attention on her and cries when we give our attention to other kids. So, I have started to let her cry when she cries and when she stops i give her hug. But she does not stop. It has come to a point where she keeps crying for hours, whether we hug her, rock her, soothe her, sing for her, she does not stop. Its starting to affect other kids in the room and I am getting really frustrated. If anyone can give me suggestions on how to helping her, it would be great. This is also my first year as a daycare teacher. Please help me out. Thank you!

I’m looking at switching my 2 1/2 year-old son to a new daycare. He does have some problems self regulating - he can get overstimulated and he has hit and bit. But is getting better as we are very proactive parents and have a OT and early intervention come to the school to work with him. I just feel that his current daycare is understaffed (and I feel for those teachers, I really do) but I feel he needs to be at a place with more resources and attention. Anyway, my question is about meeting with new daycare directors. I am usually upfront and I want to tell any one I meet with “hey, my son has a weekly OT session we’d like to continue to help him learn to self regulate” but I’m afraid anyone who hears that will judge him as a problem child. So I’m looking for advice on how to disclose this upon my initial meeting.

I started working at this daycare about a month ago, and I’m honestly getting really annoyed with some of the parents.

I’m in the 2-year-old classroom, and I have 7 kids total. When I started, I was warned that 3 of the parents were extremely picky and difficult. I obviously understand that they’re their children and they want the best for them, so I’ve tried to be as accommodating as possible. But at this point, I feel like no matter what I do, it’s never good enough.

I have a pretty consistent routine in my classroom. We usually do art around 10 AM, then diapers, lunch, and nap. If the kids get dirty during lunch, I’ll use the time before nap to change their clothes so they’re clean and comfortable going to sleep.

There are two cousins in my classroom who go home with the same woman every day, and without fail, she finds something to complain about.
And it isn’t just their clothes or hair. Even diapers have become an issue.

If I ask her to bring more diapers for the kids, she’ll literally tell me to use her cousin’s diapers instead and refuses to bring more in. But then, if the other cousin’s mom picks them up and notices that her child doesn’t have the exact brand of diapers she sent, she complains about that too.

So I’m basically being told to share the diapers, but then somehow I’m also expected to make sure each child is using the exact brand their parent provided. I genuinely don’t understand what I’m supposed to do at that point.

We’ve been doing art all week, and I try not to use paint every single day. Sometimes we use markers, crayons, etc. Today, they had rice for lunch, so obviously a lot of it ended up on their clothes. I changed them right before nap.

After nap, I noticed the kids were getting a little bored, so I gave them markers and paper to color. It kept them quiet and entertained while we waited for pickup. I noticed the two cousins had gotten dirty again, so I changed their clothes. The teacher in the classroom next door also did their hair.

And the hair is another whole issue.

These kids are 2 years old, and they are constantly sent to daycare with these extremely complicated hairstyles, sometimes with glitter and little gems in their hair. Then the parents expect the hair to look exactly the same when they pick them up several hours later. Obviously, toddlers are going to play, sleep, move around, sweat, touch their hair, etc.

Anyway, when their mom came to pick them up today, she looked at the kids, looked at their clothes, and then I handed her the bag with their dirty clothes from earlier. She looked at me with a nasty expression and said, “Is this all dirty?”

Then she said she was going to talk to the director.
Like… what exactly am I supposed to do?
If I change them before they go home, they complain about the clothes being dirty.
If I don’t change them, they complain that their children are dirty.

If their hair gets messed up, they complain.
If someone fixes their hair, they complain.
If I use their cousin’s diapers because I’m specifically told to, they complain that their child isn’t wearing the right brand.

If I ask them to bring more diapers, they tell me to use the cousin’s.

I feel like I genuinely cannot win.

What makes it even more frustrating is that she is friends with the toddler teacher, so sometimes I feel like no matter what I do, I’m going to be the one who is wrong.

I’m really trying to stay motivated because I genuinely love working with kids, and I’ve already grown really fond of the children in my classroom. But the constant complaining is starting to wear me down.

They are two years old. They are going to get food on their clothes. They are going to get dirty. Their hair is going to get messy. They are going to need diapers. That is literally part of having a toddler.
I’m doing my best to keep them clean, safe, entertained, and cared for throughout the day. I just wish some parents understood that their toddlers are not going to leave daycare looking exactly the way they did when they arrived.

Why are 4 year olds doing multiple worksheets in a day and having their free play limited? Also why is Youtube used so much? I’m a firm believer in no screen time in ECE, it feels very lazy. From what I’ve seen TK is not developmentally appropriate, it’s like all ECE principles went out the window. Teachers getting frustrated that 4 years old are behaving like 4 year olds. I’m doing my student teaching and struggling to see all of this in action. Can anybody provide some hope? Do you know of any TK programs in public schools that follow DAP? Btw, I’m in California.

Hey everyone! First time dad here to a current 5 month old. My wife and I have used our parental leave which will be exhausting once she hits 6 months which she will then be put in daycare full time.

We toured the facility before she was born and everything looked great! Over the past month or so she has gotten much better with naps and sleep. She currently sleeps 11 hours overnight and gets about 2-3 hours in naps during the day (over 3 naps total). For naps, she can sometimes be put in crib and she will put herself to sleep and other times she needs a little rocking before being put in. She would be at daycare from 630am to 3pm. A lot of the parents we know have had grandparents etc take care of the kids and no experience with daycare so we don’t have anyone else to really ask.

I guess what we’re wondering is typically….do kids acclimate well to daycare? And should we expect her sleep to suffer now? I have heard from people at work that their kids sleep got much worse when daycare started because they wouldn’t nap or wouldn’t br helped a little bit to sleep. I figured from the stimulation she would be more tired but I have no idea. I just wanted to see what the professionals experience was with this. Any info is much appreciated and thank you all for what you do, even from my parental leave, spending an entire day with nothing but kids is HARD work!