Sometimes I wonder what television is really doing to kids. Thank you, Dad, for not letting me watch TV all day long, and instead playing games with me, taking me outside, teaching me how to ride a bike, etc. These people that let a television set act as their babysitter while they are doing who knows what really get to me. UGH! When I have kids, we will NOT rely on TV. It's such an easy way out.

And really, what is WITH these parents that cannot dress their children weather appropriate? Over 80* today and a child came to school in SWEATPANTS?! And on the hottest day of the ENTIRE summer, it was forecasted to be OVER 100*, one of my little girls came to school in a heavy, long-sleeved, WINTER DRESS. Please parents, BE PARENTS. Your child should not have the run of the house, and should not be allowed to dress themselves when they want to wear WINTER clothing in the hottest month of the year. 

The amount of people taking the easy way instead of the proper way disgust me lately. It may be easier but in the long run, you're only hurting your children and turning them into spoiled whiny brats.

I know that you're a rude, overbearing, controlling parent.

WOW. Had a bad experience with a parent today. Her son is in the baby room, and I had just gotten in when she came in to get him. His stuff was missing, I guess, well at least his diaper bag was, and she asked me where it was. I told her I had no idea, and had just gotten in the room. Then I suggested someone else with the same bag may have taken it, because it's just the diaper bag every gets at the hospital, the black similac one...then I told her to ask the director, that maybe she'd know. After going around in circles and me having to say I don't know a million times because I DID NOT KNOW WHERE HER STUFF WAS, she said "well, what DO you know" incredibly rudely. I wanted to smack her but instead kept silent and just stayed away from her. She left the room and came back in and had the nerve to sit there and tell me that I was the one being rude. She said she didn't like the way I handled her situation, that I was brushing her off, and said "I don't know what kind of day you had, what kind of care can you even provide for children" and started acting like I was some kind of fool that couldn't watch kids or care for them properly. She then asked for my name so she could go complain about me, so I told her and spelt it out to clarify that 1. I was not afraid of her rude bitchy-self complaining about me, because had I handled her differently she would have REALLY been unhappy. and 2. I wanted her to KNOW that I wasn't afraid of her and that I knew I hadn't done anything wrong. Of course she went and complained to the director, who reassured her I wasn't a rude person and that I have all the patience in the world haha. But really? Who says that to someone? "Well what DO you know?!" How RUDE. Ugh I'm so livid.

Naturally, every teacher has their favourites. I'm not going to lie and say I don't, I CERTAINLY do. One of them is moving into my room, but not if the morning teacher has anything to do with it. Apparently, ALL I do is hold him and coddle him and ignore all the other children so I shouldn't be allowed in a room with him.

I wind up holding at least 80% of all the children in my room by the end of the day. Since I only have him in my room an hour or so a day, yes, it SEEMS like I may hold him more than the other kids if you overlook the fact that he's barely even in the room with me an hour. If he wants to sit in my lap and play with the kids I'm sitting near, I don't see any problem with that. Once he's in the room more often and gets to know the other kids and our routine, I can guarantee he will not be so attached to me. The SAME issue happened with his sister. She was incredibly attached to me until she got the hang of things and then she was perfectly fine. And what is wrong with them trusting and relying on me? Why do people ALWAYS seem to make a huge deal of me holding and being "too nice" to THREE-YEAR-OLDS? It is NOT inappropriate to pick up a three-year-old when they're upset or need some cuddle time.

A TWISTER!

We had a tornado watch/warning this week and had to all congregate in the hallway until it was called off.  The kids didn't know what was going on and the other moron that was "teaching" with me was freaking out and going "oh gosh a twister is going to touch down oh no i'm so scared i hope it doesn't come here." I had to yell at her, remind her my children are only three years old and don't know very much about tornadoes, and tell her not to scare them by being so upset.

Naturally I had to bring my kids something to keep them occupied so I brought a bunch of books with us and told them we were having a "reading party" in the hallway. It worked pretty well, so well actually that when we could go back in the room, one child started crying. I asked her what was wrong and she said she wanted to have a party, and when I told her we did, and that the party was finished, she cried "but there were no cupcakes or candles!" Oh youthful innocence. I tried to explain to her that not all parties involved singing "Happy Birthday" and eating handfuls of sugar, but it didn't work. Luckily, I got to leave shortly after :p 

HA!

Yes I'm still alive, sorry I haven't updated.

Kids say the funniest things. I teach three year olds so you don't expect them to have advanced logic, but sometimes they surprise you. I took out baby doll toys for some of my kids to play with yesterday, and a little girl that was playing with them decided she wanted to play with something else. I asked her to clean up what she was playing with first before she left the area...and she said "but YOU took it out. YOU took it out for us to play with, why do I have to clean it up?" I guess it's not as much logical as it is hilarious and cute. 

One of my kids went to poop and said "OK I'm going to drop some kids off at the pool!" HAHA those kind of kids are the ones I love, the ones that can say the most absurd, gross things but are so cute about it and you can't help but laugh at them.

And onto a rant. I have a child that isn't potty trained and poops himself. He has two or three times a day that he usually does it so we put him on the toilet at that time and can usually save ourselves a stinky mess, but there are a lot of times it's impossible to make him sit and go, especially with 19 other children in the room. Once, he was sent to go potty, watched sit on the toilet, and when he was checked on a few minutes later he was standing up next to the toilet with his pants pulled up, full of shadoobie (thanks, Chelsea Handler!). When his mom was told about it, she simply said "OH, did you not know you had to poop?" I have a feeling not much is being done to help him get potty trained at home. That's what upsets me. I understand your children are at school a LOT of hours a week, but you STILL need to HELP US help YOU get your child potty trained. Some of my kids that ARE potty trained STILL come into school with diapers, and even worse--diaper RASHES, because their parents are lazy and irresponsible and don't bother keeping up with their child's potty schedules.

And yet another rant...some parents have NO IDEA how to dress their children in accordance with the weather. It's the summer, over 80* every day, and humid, yet these parents dress their children in long pants, jeans, sweatpants, and dark colored shirts. The playground is mostly shaded, but really? These poor kids sweat badly enough as it is, don't add to it! And I have a child whose parents request we put her spring JACKET ON HER when we go outside. REALLY?!?! A JACKET? Seriously?! I'd rather not have a child with a heat stroke. /rant

Off to another day of fun and stress.

One of the most obnoxious kids I know is leaving the daycare. Happy Easter to me! I'm sorry that you feel it's the teacher's fault that your child is getting scratched and hit, but really, if your kid is going to sit on the other children, take their toys, kick them under the table etc. than your kid is going to get his ass kicked. He's three, these kids don't know how to react to what he's doing to them yet, and this is where they learn. He's gonna get beat up wherever he goes until you can recognise that the other children aren't the problem, YOUR kid is. Duh.

I taught my kids the colour periwinkle today, I'm so proud of how smart they are.

Still looking for a new job, although I am moving in the direction of getting administration experience so I can open my OWN daycare sometime in the future. I would be a pretty awesome daycare owner, if I do say so myself.

The corporation that I work for is seriously illin.

Every night after we close, a cleaning company (or just cleaning people, whatever) come in to wash the floors, take out the trash, etc. 

Until now.  The greedy assholes at the top of the corporate ladder decided that the teachers apparently don't do enough already, so they changed the cleaners to only come three times a week, and are making us wash the floors, vacuum, and take out the trash ourselves twice a week. Only twice a week? You may ask. Twice a week is two times too many for me. I did not spend four years in college, acquire $70,000 in loan debt, and ENSLAVE myself with this company for THREE YEARS for them to decide I don't already do enough and now have to be a maid as well. I only make $9 an hour as it is, and I feel that I MORE than earn that amount. They won't give us a cost of living (or any) raise this year, are "saving" money by reducing the amount we spend on the cleaning crew...and who will be seeing that money? The greedy assholes. We will be doing the work, THEY will be seeing the money. I don't think so.

I ran out today without mopping or vacuuming a thing, and I've pretty much decided it is now time for a new job. I cannot save the world, and as much of a difference as I make in these kids' lives, it's time to do something for myself for a change. I am worth more.