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For those of you that separate your kids, and use a gate- How do you keep the kids from hanging and shaking, playing with the gate? Besides the obvious of No, don't touch, ignore, etc... any good ideas out there?
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Thank you, this was great!
Nan- when the occasional toy gets tossed over, what do you do? Leave it, have a basket, or give it back? I am talking about your littles that have not learned the stay away technique yet or those that know but defy.
Thanks again for posting this, it made me think even deeper that some people might have gates at the top of stairs or for safety reasons and if a child knows not to touch that could really help them out in other homes to be safe. I agree not everything has to be a hands on item in our homes, that is not realistic to children.
I have little littles, so I know its going to be a lot of training to get them to leave it alone, but worth it in the end.Comment
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We train them off of the transitional area from the time they can crawl.
They aren't allowed over there and there is an adult within a few feet of them when they dart into the zone. They are corrected BEFORE the get to the gate.
I don't have the toss over issues because they don't have time to get to it... pull up on it.. and toss something over it.Comment
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Nanny, I love your advice. I almost always agree with your approach. However, your responses almost always leave me thinking I have the rejects of all rejects in my daycare. I have 2 1/2 yo's who cannot follow simple rules. We have this ball maze toy. It blows air and pops the balls up and out the holes and then you put it back in the other hole. Anyway, the kids always try to put other toys in there and a few of them have stuck their hands in there and we had to help them get their hands back out. So the rule is, no other toys may be put into it and there are no hands inside the holes. EVERY single day, my 2 1/2 yo does both of these things. He gets the toy taken away for the day, isn't allowed to play with it again, and we again explain the rules. Same thing the next day. Ugh.
The gate thing. It drives me BONKERS. The kids are ALWAYS hanging on the gate, licking the gate, throwing toys over the gate. There are 2 kids in particular. One is just 2 and one will soon be 2. I take them away from the gate and tell them to play with toys about 500 times a day. The almost 2 year old would pick at the tape and eat it if I did that. I just don't know what to do here either. I have so many terrible behaviors and kids that just won't follow direction. It is terribly tiring and frustrating. Do you EVER have a bad day, Nanny?Comment
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I have a tape line the children are not allowed to cross except to get to the bathroom and coat room which are off limits for normal play. It takes most kids about 3 months to fully get it and leave the area alone. The biggest thing I have going for me is that I take new kids so rarely that all the other kids in care are following my rules and yell at the new one for breaking them. When I had kids pouring in and out of here I had a lot more issues than I do now. Another plus is starting the kids young. Nanny starts with infants from what I've read. By the time the kid is old enough to make it to the adult only area they have noticed that all the other kids don't go there so why should they. Kids learn from kids and the group you have sahm2three seem to be feeding off of each other's bad behaviors. I had lots of issues once upon a time and termed lots of kids keeping only the naturally good ones. I could one of your 2 1/2 year olds and have the kid straightened up in just a few days and following all my rules within 2 months. I'd bet the kid's tuition on it even. It's because that's the atmosphere I have here.Celebrate! :
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