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Proud to be old school.
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Old School all the way. I started out in this business thinking I would be caring for children but find a majority of my time is spend in direct relation to the parents.....:confused:Comment
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I am guessing the majority of providers are going to be old school... and if parents actually had to spend as much time and deal with their own children as we do... then maybe they'd change their ways a little.
I cannot believe the control these children have over their parents! One parent just last week thanked me for giving her child a time out at go home time because he hit her. I was honest and simply said "Hitting isn't allowed in my house, one of us needed to do something" She then said she was embarrased by the childs behavior... yeah she should be and admitted that it is just easier to give in to the child as it ends conflicts and embarrasement in public quicker... WOW!!!!!!
Wouldn't it be nice if the parents also had to enforce our rules when they are with their kids too?? Wouldn't that make Mondays so much easier for everyone??Comment
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Old School!
Here's a funny...
Last week when the weather was horrible 3 or my 6 families came in and let me know that they were working at home. When they left my 16 year old said, "geesh, don't these people like their kids very much! You worked when I was a kid and I never was at daycare as much as these kids are!"
It NEVER crossed my mind to bring my kid to daycare when I had the day off. I cherished the time I got to spend with my kids.Comment
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Boy, I TOTALLY agree with everything you have said! I am in my 50's and totally am old school and proud of it!! I think parents of today, not all, but most of them, want their kids to be their friend and not get mad at them, so they don't discipline like we did years ago, which is We, as your parent is the boss and you do what I say, where as today the parent will just let the kids get away with something instead of being the boss and the child then is ruling the roost, if you get what I mean. I had a DCG once who came in the middle of winter,( here is is cold ) with no socks on & no shoes on when Mom brought her in, she was carrying her in. I said where are your shoes & socks, and Mom said, Oh, she wouldn't let me get them on her today! She then handed me her shoes and socks for me to put on her. Now, if I were that parent, I would be totally embarrassed with that, but she was not.
How hard is it to say to the child" You will put your shoes & socks on now" and if she didn't do it, then you just put them on her yourself. Now is that so hard to do for a parent to do? NO! But she wimped out and let the child tell her what to do. Who is the parent here, not that parent! So, ya, parents need to take more time with their kids and discipline them and we need to go back to the old school way of doing things. Anyway you hit it right on the head! Thank you so many of you for saying your old school!Comment
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I guess I'm old school. I'm not a babysitter though. I'm a child care provider. I consider myself an early childhood educator. I stopped babysitting when I started depending on my income to pay bills and get serious about my career. I do teach the children everything from manners to buttons, math to science. We involve early literacy skills with even the youngest kids. How???? We read books, bake cookies, spend our days enjoying our childhood. As far as I'm concerned a " babysitter" is someone who simply observes a child and keeps them from harming themselves. What most of us do is so much more.Comment
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I make more than most public school teachers in my area so I can't say this. I do think you are all selling yourselves short though. You do so much more than you credit yourselves with.Comment
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Old school
I'm old school for sure. I raised my own child that way and it was how I was raised. As childcare provider, I keep it as old school as I can because it works.Comment
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I think we're all teachers. Doesn't mean we have to have a specific curriculum, but in the time they spend with us, they're learning the most important skills in life. In my opinion.
This thread just makes me sad. Do these kids seriously have the option of wearing appropriate outdoor clothing? Seriously? How is a choice between frostbite and no frostbite a valid choice in an adult's mind?
I guess that means I'm old school, except I won't use corporal punishment, ever. The only options that are okay to offer a kid are like what littlemissmuffet said--which veggie do you want for snack?!!! Otherwise, it's too confusing for little kids. Don't parents know that? It's confusing for me to even order off a giant menu at a diner or someplace like the cheesecake factory. Too many options is not usually a good thing, for kids OR adults!Comment
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Don't get me wrong, with the one over two that I have (the rest are babies). I've worked on numbers, letters, colors and shapes. We color, play doh etc. I've had the dck dressing herself for awhile. But I DON"T spend my hard earned money on "pre-packed preschool" programs.Comment
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I am in my mid thirties and I am definitely old school. To be honest, I have tried some of the new school parenting techniques with my own kids. Some things work and some don't. Whatever works, I continue to use. Whatever doesn't work I have to take it back to the old school And by old school I pretty much mean do what I say or else!
I have to admit though, it's really hard to practice old school techniques with the way the licensing rules are written. Luckily I have found ways to get around most of the nonsense rules though though.
littlemissmuffet, I am a supporter of spanking. We use it as a last line of defense but I have/will swat my own kids on the bottom if the situation warrants it.Comment
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its amazing how many of us believe that the old way works. I truely believe that if more parents parent the way they were that there would be less kids that have problems. I also find, I'm not sure why, but its like the "me generation" I have never seen so many parents who do everything for themselves, but omgoodness if their child needs a coat or new shoes.
I have a dcb who last week has been hitting the kids (he's almost 3) not only that he's been braking alot of the stuff too. So I mention it to dad, and dad tells me that he's like this at home. I'm like, "well what do you do" so dad says that dcb screams so loud and so much they let him get away with it. I'm like, "um, he goes in time out for hitting right away" So apparently this weekend dcb was hitting them so bad that they didn't know what to do, not only that, because me and mom were talking he started kicking my screen door. I piped up right away and wouldn't let him do that. But mom just brushed it off.
I'm also finding that kids are hitting more and using anything as weapons more too. What ever happened to nice play.Comment
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I agree with you on this one,if more parents would discipline,there would be less children getting in trouble because they have been allowed to do whatever they want without consequences. And yes, it is the "ME" generation. I find that parents spend more time doing what they want for themselves then spending time with their children. Even when they have a day off, they will bring their child to daycare so they don't have to bother with them. An example for instance, I had a Mom have the day off, needed to run some errands that day and said it was too much of a hassle to take her daughter with her, so I got her that day. As it turned out, I had to run a few errands that day also with my own 2 boys and her daughter. We had to run to Target and as we were entering the store, here my daycare Mom comes out of Target at the same time I was going in, with her daughter. Wow, If I could handle 3 kids, one who was her daughter, why couldn't she handle her own child. As far as nice play theses days, kids don't know how to nice play.... especially when they get by with hitting at home and getting away with it. Then they think it is okay to do that because their parents have not told them that it is not a nice thing to do. I could go on and on with what parents are not doing these days, but that won't do any good.Comment
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