Not Loving Today

[My3cents]

I used to have our Mondays all planned out,preschool story time at the library,etc.
After 10 years of putting up with parents and the after math of their weekends.
Here's how my mondays go now.
Kids arrive,eat breakfast,under 18 months directly back to bed.
Older kids read quietly for an hour.
9:30a.m.-Morning nap over,play outside,lunch an hour early at 11:00a.m. and everyone bact to sleep from noon -3:00p.m.
I used to feel bad but the kids can barely function.They are starving for healthy food and sleep.That's all they really need and they are back to their sweet selfs by Tuesday.
I use the time to get caught up on everything I didn't get done on the weekend.
It's a win,win situation!

This works for you

[Heidi]

planning. pre-plan as much as you can. This helps. Set up the older child and then fead the infant, but make that set up as quick as possible. I say yes to a schedule but with flexibility, I say yes to on demand, but with common sense and pre planning and moving towards a schedule. I say let it all fly out the window when nothing is going your way and go with the flow of the day-

I am on the food program as well. I do serve breakfsast...at 8:45. It's been this way for 3 years. It worked out fine for most of that time.

Problem seems to be that once the little's graduated from bottles-before-daycare to needing something more substantial, my dcp's have been hit-and-miss about it. I understand mornings are busy, and have tons of empathy for having to get out the door. I was a working (outside home) mom myself once.

My issue is I now have to feed another snack to everyone (and 2 9/10 month olds and a toddler means a huge mess each meal). So, their failure to feed ONE child means I have to feed three. I cannot just feed the one that's hungry...it will not fly with the others.

For well over 4 months, these babies have arrived at 7:30 fed, eaten at 8:45, taken a nap from 9-10, gone outside, had lunch at 11:45, then story time, then nap from 12:30-3:30. Now I have an new baby here, one who has been quite "high need", and I have to reorganize everything because otherwise I have meltdown city every morning. I also have two arriving at 7 am, so there is no time to gear-up slowly. I race my own kids to the school bus stop and race back here for the first two kids. Then it's go-go-go all morning full power.

It's not like I can't afford to miss a meal. :: Still, it would be nice to have a minute to breathe or eat before 10am.

I'm not really all that ticked. It's more than. I am really pretty fond of my dcp's. Except for this little issue, I have few, so I'm definitely counting my blessings.

[Heidi]

I used to have our Mondays all planned out,preschool story time at the library,etc.
After 10 years of putting up with parents and the after math of their weekends.
Here's how my mondays go now.
Kids arrive,eat breakfast,under 18 months directly back to bed.
Older kids read quietly for an hour.
9:30a.m.-Morning nap over,play outside,lunch an hour early at 11:00a.m. and everyone bact to sleep from noon -3:00p.m.
I used to feel bad but the kids can barely function.They are starving for healthy food and sleep.That's all they really need and they are back to their sweet selfs by Tuesday.
I use the time to get caught up on everything I didn't get done on the weekend.
It's a win,win situation!

This is what I am going to do for a while, as well. Since I have one that comes at 11:45 some days, though, I will have to add a snack and leave lunch where it is.

[MsLaura529]

sorry your having a bad day, hope it gets better

an idea for your non talker- try a little signing with her. basic signs, then if she chooses to not talk she might show you what she wants. Do it with everyone. More is a favorite of mine. I put my thumb and pointer and other digits come together in a pinching and tap them back and fourth all while saying more. I also use stop or No a lot. I make a t with my hands and say Stop or NO or time out- usually Stop.

I thought signing was the ding dongest thing going until I started using it more with my kids and seeing how it helped to carry over the verbal. I don't do anything fancy and I don't pressure the child to get it right or perfect. I just use a few basic signs. Do a google for some great resources and posters. Baby signing is great for not just non talking babies but also toddlers that are shy or just going through a phase of I am not going to talk. I only know a few basics but again really helps with kids and I was the one that was like this is just to out of the box for me and weird.

Prep for rain days, take out stuff you don't normally do and when it is really bad and you just cant cope- PBS can be your friend and has great learning programing.

Hope this helps and again hope your day gets better. Find the good in it for sanity's sake

Thanks. It's not that she doesn't talk ... she will talk, but when I ask her about something, or to do something, she just stares at me like I'm the craziest person in the world, then she goes on doing her own thing again. It's just frustrating.

It is days like today that make me wish I had a TV in the daycare ...

[Sunshine74]

I was on vacation all last week, so I feel like it hit me twice as hard as normal this week.

[Maria2013]

I would just like to curl up in a corner and cry.

It is definitely a Monday ... a Monday after a very rainy Sunday when all the children were stuck inside. My very loud non-napper is here. My tornado of a boy whose goal today is to tick all of the other children off is here. My new DCG who doesn't respond to anything I, or anyone else says, is here. And all of their lovely little quirks seem to be multiplied to the extreme today. And they all want nothing to do with me.

Curling up into a corner now ...

I hope today is a better day for you :hug: