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  • mema
    Daycare.com Member
    • Jul 2011
    • 1979

    #31
    Park time is their time. If you can get on it and do it properly, go for it. If you can't get on it, well, eventually you will be able to. I sit/stand back and watch. The only time I get involved is if they are doing something they aren't suppose to do. Hitting, kicking, throwing wood chips, running up slides. I also don't push on swings. If they can get up-great! They can give each other pushes just fine and take turns.

    This morning we were at the park and there were 3 other families there. 1 that stood at the sides and watched and 2 that were climbing all over helping the kids up the stairs and rope ladders. The playground is not that big, but then you go and throw 4 adults on there with the kids and that is just asking for trouble.

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    • youretooloud
      Advanced Daycare.com Member
      • Mar 2011
      • 1955

      #32
      I DO stand next to the fire pole entrance and tell them "no". It's seven feet in the air, and they just simply can't do that one. That is the only rule I have so far.

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      • MsMe
        Advanced Daycare.com Member
        • Mar 2011
        • 712

        #33
        I don't care if a parent wants to follow their child around to all of the play equipmant, but my complaint is when they narrate the ENTIRE time.

        Good Job Sally
        Oh Sally, yes, you are so big
        Oh wow!
        oopsie!

        LOUDLY so the whole park has to hear every deatail of every second of every thing Sally did today at the park!!!


        There was a lady their one day that was so happy she named her son Zander that she started AND finished every sentance with his name. Zanader you are so big today, love Zander!

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        • youretooloud
          Advanced Daycare.com Member
          • Mar 2011
          • 1955

          #34
          Originally posted by MsMe
          but my complaint is when they narrate the ENTIRE time.
          I was just listening to someone do this the other day. The poor kid was just trying to play. His mom kept saying "Where is the yellow block?...can you find the yellow block? This is yellow, is this yellow? YEL-LOW"

          "Oh for the love of god, let the kid play"

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          • cheerfuldom
            Advanced Daycare.com Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 7413

            #35
            Originally posted by MsMe
            I don't care if a parent wants to follow their child around to all of the play equipmant, but my complaint is when they narrate the ENTIRE time.

            Good Job Sally
            Oh Sally, yes, you are so big
            Oh wow!
            oopsie!

            LOUDLY so the whole park has to hear every deatail of every second of every thing Sally did today at the park!!!


            There was a lady their one day that was so happy she named her son Zander that she started AND finished every sentance with his name. Zanader you are so big today, love Zander!
            ahhhh! I cant stand this parent!!! I met one the other day that calls her daughter "pickle pants"......wth? I was with the family for about 30 minutes and was so mentally exhausted from hearing all the narration and the cutesy nickname 1000 times. The daughter did not listen to the mom at all and tuned her out to the extent that she would not respond to any instructions from her mom. poor kid is beyond sick of it too.

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            • providerandmomof4
              Daycare.com Member
              • Jan 2012
              • 354

              #36
              Not a fan of helicoptering and I often think, "God, maybe the kids could play together if you would go sit down." Of cou::rse, I do remember before daycare when I would go to the park with my daughter and play princess in the tower, always forced to be the dragon while she was the princess trapped..kinda miss it because nowadays the majority of our park visits I have to keep track of 6 children. BUT.. my daughter would have always rather played with another child if there was one available!

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