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Cb says
I love that someone has taken the time to detail their objections to Blippi
One of the most unsettling voids in the Blippi videos is the emotional one. Perhaps the first thing I noticed about Blippi was how obviously insincere he was. Much like Weird Al as Uncle Nutzy, Stevin John’s wackiness feels contrived and fake. He seems like the prototypical example of the kids’ show host who, the moment the camera stops rolling, grabs a cigarette, lapses into a foul-mouthed rasp, and goes “that ought to hold the little bastards.” I don’t know if he actually does that, but he seems like he does it. I don’t feel like I have any idea what Stevin John is actually like, because Blippi is so obviously a put-on.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-dead-world-of-blippi
Anonymous says
I have never had the misfortune to watch Blippi, but that article is amazing.
I’ve always wondered whether the low cost and relative ease of putting content out on the web–blogs, videos, etc.–is really a such good thing. Does this Blippi fellow have a creative team, an educational advisor, an editor, or anyone else to help generate ideas, ensure that the content is developmentally appropriate, or vet the quality? After Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers raised the bar, it got more difficult to put this kind of garbage children’s programming on TV.
Cb says
I think that’s probably true. It is just some weird dude and a camera man. I listened to Finding Fred earlier in the year and the amount of research that went into Mr Rogers was incredible. None of the YouTubers do that.
Anon says
I will have to read this! I watched one Blippi video and had a strong negative reaction and that little blurb explains why. There are so many alternatives out there that are educational and entertaining, no need to have a weird fake-enthusiastic-bright-colored dude slowly sucking the souls out of my kids.
Anon says
The article to me was a bit much (the part about Marxism and then going down the rabbithole of tying him to Trump are the two things that really sent me from “huh” to “ugh”, but I guess everything has to be political these days to get clicks). I don’t like Blippi, but it is because I find the language annoying, the songs terrible, and his overenthusiasm weirds me out (perhaps I am young, but he reminds me of the guy from Blues Clues just exaggerated), nevermind the the prior NSFW antics on video before he took off as a kids star. That being said, my daughter has a speech delay, and the clear repetitive nature of colors and vehicles really helped with her speech. Would I prefer that she watch Sesame Street (or frankly anything on PBSkids or even Disney), yes? Do I think she is harmed by watching blippi in moderation? No. I expect this will be the first of many shows in which I will disagree over whether she should watch it.
GGFM says
I also thought the article a bit much. There is something unnerving about the character and the article did drive home the eerie absence of any sort of society or emotion, which I hadn’t considered. But I think among the TV shows whose sole aim is to keep kids watching, and not educate them, the show is fine and better than others (looking at you, Little Baby Bum). My husband and I were excited about introducing our kids to the shows we used to watch as kids, many of which are now on Disney Plus, but watching them as adults we realized they were terrible. I’m glad that better alternatives exist, and we shouldn’t mistake Blippi for Mr. Rogers, but low-quality kids entertainment is not new.
Anonymous says
Ha, the connections to politics were what made the article so compelling to me! Occupational hazard of being a social scientist, I guess.
Anon says
I’ve never even heard of Blippi! When I saw your username I assumed it was a British thing but apparently not, LOL.
Cb says
Nope, the US is to blame for that one :) We can blame the Brits for the abomination that is Peppa.
Anon says
How dare you, Peppa is not an abomination! I love it!! I think that’s the cutest kids show ever. I was supposed to take my toddler to the live show and it got cancelled because of COVID and I think I’m more disappointed than her.
Anon says
DD has not yet discovered Peppa and I thank my lucky stars every day!
anon says
Oh, I actually like Peppa! Caveat is that we only read the books.
Anon says
I’ve only ever heard of his viral NSFW video where he, er, goes #2 on his friend. I imagine that is more his true personality!
anon says
That article was so interesting! I have never watched Blippi, and I totally understand the author’s point on the voids of the show, but my attitude with annoying kids shows on youtube is “it is what it is”. You simply can’t expect a show like that to be anything more than some dude dressed up and talking about monster trucks. I’m skeptical that Blippi is trying to subconsciously turn all of its watchers into capitalists who want to bulldoze nature for luxury condos.
Anonymous says
I don’t think that’s necessarily his conscious goal–he may be too thoughtless to know or care and is probably just trying to make some easy money with inane content. But the show will absolutely rot kids’ brains even if that’s not the explicit intent.
Anon says
Parenting moments: I am going to my Primary to check and see if the baby managed to scratch my cornea when baby poked me in the eye.
(And no, it can’t just happen via telemedicine. I asked.)
Anon says
I had that happen – Christmas Day with 18 month olds new book. So that’s what we did that day… It’s super uncomfortable! Good luck!
Anon says
My toddler walloped me in the head with her baby doll yesterday and wowza it hurt. I was seeing stars. Hope your eye is ok!
Anon. says
Good luck! The 7-mo old dropped a book on my face this weekend and I now have a black eye.
Anonymous says
OMG that happened to me and it was the only time I literally saw stars
“Corneal blister” the doctor said. It healed within days but I wasn’t convinced the first 24 hours.
lawsuited says
Can Canadian moms recommend any websites similar to Care.com that are free? I’m happy to use Care.com but I’m concerned that because seekers and carers both have to pay for a subscription in order to communicate with each other on the site (yes, you now both have to pay) I might be missing out on potential carers who aren’t up for paying the fee.
Anonymous says
I saw nanny services dot ca which I liked because I could review people for free and just pay to contact. It also tells you when the person last logged in which is a useful indicator on if they are still looking for work or not. Haven’t actually contacted anyone through that though.
Anon says
Not Canadian but there are a lot of local “Babysitter’s Club” facebook groups that connect people like Care does. Might be worth asking around – local parenting groups will know, too.
Ugh says
Just ugh. My five-year-old is set to start Kindergarten tomorrow. She’s been looking forward to it for ages; she loved preschool, her older brother loves school (he’s already started, but they stagger the Kindergartners); she’s been asking daily how many days are left. This morning, she wakes up and says “I feel dizzy.” 101.7 degree temperature. Ugh.
(We’re not really worried about Covid – no reason to think she’s been exposed and she’s not coughing or anything – but obviously, she can’t start school with a recent fever in the current environment. This stinks.)
Anonymous says
Sorry that stinks! Hope she’s better soon and gets to go to school.
I would at least ask your ped if she should be tested. My understanding is many/most kids with Covid have no cough, that’s more of an adult symptom. And I don’t really understand the “no exposure” comment – she obviously had enough contact with the outside world to pick up this flu or whatever it is and anyone that could have given her the flu could have given her Covid too.
Ugh says
Funny enough, she was actually scheduled for her annual well-visit today. The ped guidelines are that we have to cancel that because of the fever, but my husband is taking her in this afternoon for a sick visit instead. The teacher said that if she’s better by tomorrow (and the ped says its OK), she can start with the Friday group instead, so here’s hoping!
Anonymous says
Fingers crossed!
Anonymous says
If anecdata helps, my preschool aged kid had a very high fever recently. We’ve been fairly careful (kids aren’t in daycare right now but do go to parks, staying 6+ feet away from others), and she had no other symptoms. Our pediatrician had her COVID tested out of caution, we got the negative results a few days later but of course had to quarantine until results came back.
Anonanonanon says
Oh no!
Well, she’ll start a couple of days late, which means she’ll get to make a grand entrance! She’ll get her very own first day that she doesn’t have to share with everyone else!
Anon for this says
Our private school has announced their return plan. All students are being divided into two groups who will alternate attending over four weeks (starting in a month). Then they will return to fill in person depending on the numbers.
What’s driving me nuts is that the plan is the same for all students k-12. Every other private school in our city has prioritized getting kindergarten to in person and put older (teens!) on the back burner. Is anyone else’s school taking a similar approach? I’m very frustrated, although clearly from this rant I do have a kindergartner.
Anonymous says
We’re in public and none of the public schools I know are making any distinction based in age, but perhaps that’s more common in private schools. I agree with you completely that lower elementary should be prioritized.
Anonymous says
At least for public schools, it isn’t logistically feasible to treat younger students and older students differently. If you want to have smaller class sizes and physical distancing so elementary grades can attend in person, you have to turn over secondary school buildings to the elementary schools (probably reasonable) and either have secondary school teachers switch to elementary (leaves no one to teach secondary school on line, and secondary school teachers may not be qualified to teach elementary) or hire additional teachers (labor supply and funding issues make this impossible).
Or you could do what our district did and send everyone back with no distancing.
Anonymous says
I disagree. Our district is preK-6th 100% and 7th-12th at 50% (I am the poster below). Whether you agree with it or not, decoupling childcare from school is difficult. In addition, remote learning is less effective for elementary kids. Just because it makes more sense for those kids to be in the classrom doesn’t mean you can’t put more safety protocols in place for older kids who need less supervision and who can more effectively participate in remote learning. You’re treating it as all or none. But there are compromise positions. I feel like this is a situation where we all need to do what we can where we can and hopefully every little bit will help.
Anonymous says
I am not saying that younger kids shouldn’t be in school, I’m saying that it’s not as simple as you seem to think. How did your school district get enough teachers to allow for all PK-6 to be in the building safely? Did they make some high school teachers switch to elementary and the rest of the high school teachers take on classes of 50 kids?
Anonymous says
This. Our numbers are currently low so everyone is back in full classes with some masking and distancing rules. The district here’s plan includes having 7-12 classes at home if cases increase but only having K-6 at home if it gets really bad. 7-12 programming can be delivered online much more easily and having at least half the system at home reduces the number of contacts significantly.
Anonymous says
Our school is planning to offer a full time in person option for elementary and middle school and a hybrid option for high school. All students can elect at home only. District wide, about half of the families elected at home only. I expect they are also reallocating teachers between the schools. They are having smaller class size for in person and bigger class size for at home only. The reason for hybrid only at the high school is due to the large size of the high schools. They haven’t opened yet for in person instruction, so it is tbd if they will open to in person instruction or how it will operate. School has already began online only. My elementary student is assigned to an in-person class, and the class size is small.
Anonymous says
You can just allow K-6 students to come back, but keep older kids at home. K-6 is both safer for a variety of reasons (young kids less likely to spread, no class mixing, smaller class sizes) and more essential. And keeping the older kids home reduces community spread, which in turn makes K-6 even safer (fewer patient zeros = fewer potential outbreaks). My point was that they’re not distinguishing based on age at all, not that they should be converting high schools into elementary schools.
Anon says
That would not be following CDC guidelines. You can not have a full class of students with social distancing. Also, check into the school’s ventilation systems…a lot of older schools have subpar systems (like in my district) and I have a feeling they are just sweeping it under the rug
Anonymous says
Class sizes for elementary in my district were 18-20 pre-pandemic; they’re 14-16 now. The kids are distanced just fine. And sure, there are still risks, but there are serious risks to not being in school too, including child abuse and food insecurity for some kids. Anyway, I’m not sure what this has to do with the point that K-6 is safer than 7-12, since all the buildings presumably have similar ventilation systems.
Anonanonanon says
Like almost everything related to COVID school debates, I truly see all sides and there is no good answer.
For young kids, yes! They should be in person! They can’t be expected to sit in front of, much less learn from, a computer and their parents can’t quit their jobs to help. Makes sense!
However, for high schoolers, these grades/years MATTER for their future in an immediate way. No time to catch up, University is around the corner. I can see where it would be easy to think that the younger kids have time to “catch up” but high schoolers have an immediate need to keep their education on track.
I’m not saying either side is right or supported by evidence or anything. I’m just saying I see how everyone could think they have the biggest claim to “normal” schooling right now, and everyone has legitimate points, and there is no way to accommodate everyone, and it stinks. I’m happy that I’m not a school official.
Anonymous says
Are you interested in paying extra so they can hire more kindergarten teachers!
Anon says
my friend’s public school has K &1 going 4 days a week in-person and 2-5 going 2 days a week in-person. there is really no right or wrong to this. while i agree that it is much harder for a kindergartener to learn online than a high school student, is the school going to hire more K teachers to keep classes smaller? and while actually this does make sense to me at private schools since everyone is paying, i actually think in public schools it is more important to have in-person for lower grades bc of the childcare component
Anonymous says
The public school in my town has preK-6th everyday and 7th-12th on a 50% A/B rotation over a two week period. I was very impressed.
anon says
I have kids in lower elementary and our schools also aren’t distinguishing K-12. Parents are expecting DL for at least the fall, but likely the entire school year. Teachers have already said they will not return to the classroom if there is any risk at all. We are staying enrolled in public schools, but essentially planning to homeschool our kids since DL doesn’t work well for their ages.
The good thing about K is that the primary goal is to get kids started reading. Plan to work on reading and writing 1:1 with your kid. If that’s all you do, your kid would likely be fine to start 1st next year.
anon says
If it’s helpful, I’m far more concerned about by 2nd grader than my pre-Ker. The older one isn’t big enough to be “reading to learn” yet, but still needs to make a lot of progress to be ready for 3rd grade. The little one really just needs to work on her letters and counting. I can teach the pre-K skills pretty easily through play. The 2nd grade stuff really needs to be taught more explicitly.
I feel like K is still on the cusp where you can get away with a lot of play and just a little reading/writing instruction. There’s a reason that K is optional in many places.
Anon says
Every plan I’ve seen is so varied. Our town will treat all students the same; towns near us (NY) are doing all half days for elementary school. However, basically all of us are starting fully remote! It’s going to be an unideal year no matter what the schedule is.
I also have a Kindergartner and it’s helpful to remember that K academics do not matter a bit in the grand scheme. There will be lots of catch up in first grade after a year like this, I’m sure. And some time is school checks the “socialization” box.
Anonymous says
I don’t know that there will be in-person next year, or even the year after that. NY state had, what, a 0.6% test positivity rate yesterday? If you guys can’t have in person classes, who can!? I understand that in many parts of the country it’s not safe to have in-person school right now. But I’m seriously disturbed by the reluctance to open schools in the areas where the numbers are very good, because I don’t see this virus fully going away for years, if not decades.
Anonymous says
Places where it might be safe don’t want to go back, and the places where it is least safe are most eager to go back.
Anonymous says
Well, teachers don’t want to go back. The parents I know in NY and the other states with good numbers want to send their kids back. It just feels like the goal posts are constantly moving. Like they originally said 10% positivity is the goal and then we got there and then they said no, actually 5% and then we got there and then they said 1% and then NY at least is there but even that’s not good enough, apparently.
Anon says
I know, I also feel like if NY is ever going back in person, now is the time. But there has been a LOT of pushback from teachers. I also think our area is trying to be super buttoned up with CDC guidelines, which requires renovations and changes in the school buildings that are not complete yet (like modifying the ventilation systems to accept a certain type of filter). Our district says it will go to hybrid in October…we will see!
Coach Laura says
We used “What your first (second, third etc) grader needs to know” series when our kids were in those grades. It might be worth it to buy/borrow and take a look to see what grade level expectations are, especially if you feel like your kid(s) are adrift without much input from the schools.
Anon says
Suburbs in our city started with K-2 back and now are transitioning back to the other grades as well. Not sure how they did it, but it worked well enough for them for a month that they felt comfortable bringing back other students.
Redux says
What is the solution for overtaxed internet at home? I am on a webinar, my DH is on a zoom meeting (and soon we will have a kid on google classrooms) and one of us keeps freezing or getting booted. Do we need a new router? Extender? I know nothing about how this works.
Anon says
You likely need to up your connection speed or size with your provider, and then I also recommend a mesh router system. DH did both for me right when we started WFH, and now I can do full VPN with video, he can play online graphics intensive video games, and our kid can stream Disney on at least 3 different devices all at the same time with no issues (yes, we are a screen time intensive household and yes I am OK with that).
Quail says
We had the same thing happen at the beginning. We got a new modem and upped our internet speed from our provider. Not sure which of those things fixed it, but it’s fixed. Kept the same two-frequency router. FWIW, our internet speed is never as fast as what is advertised (I’m sure “speeds up to X!” is how they phrase it) so I’m sure that was part of it.
TheElms says
Does anyone think that when all the kids go back to virtual school, that ISPs are going to be over taxed and we will experience outages or lagging? We have Verizon Fios and it already seems to be struggling in MoCo and kids aren’t even back in school yet, just teachers.
Anonymous says
School started last week in my city and only 25% of the kids are virtual but the internet has been noticeably worse since the first day of school. So…yes.
Anonymous says
Absolutely. Our neighborhood had terrible bandwidth issues during the spring, and our school system wasn’t doing anything with video or synchronous learning.
anon says
The connection speed is probably the culprit, yeah. We have Fios 100/100 which (so far) has been sufficient for running 3 zoom calls and 1 remote desktop connection at the same time. I just ran a speedtest and got download and upload speeds of 80+ Mbps for both downloads and uploads. Our modem is just whatever Verizon handed out when they set it up, so nothing fancy or upgraded.
Something else to try is limiting how many devices are connected to the wireless at one time. If one of you is working near the router, maybe use an ethernet cable to plug that computer in directly.
Redux says
These are helpful responses, thank you tech friends!
Anonymous says
We just upped our speed and honestly the price was the same. It helps a lot.
Anonanonanon says
I got a cable and plugged straight into the modem because I was tired of sharing wifi (is that a thing?) but these solutions all sound much higher tech. We have fios as well and it’s been a nightmare.
Daycare woes says
My toddler went back to daycare this week and I’m having a hard time with the covid restrictions (I know they’re necessary, it’s just a hard adjustment.) The biggest issue is communication – we are not being able to go into the center so I’ve never met his teacher and can’t see what he’s doing at pickup or drop off, etc. The person who takes him in and out hasn’t been with him all day so basically knows nothing.
I don’t know whether he ate his lunch, for example, or what he did all day. They have an app but the teachers have not been putting much information in it other than his nap. I called on his first day back at lunchtime to make sure he was doing okay – but the director seemed very annoyed and honestly didn’t tell me much, so I hesitate to call again. I’ve tried asking the pickup person to ask his teacher if he did okay that day, but have gotten very vague answers (“he is adjusting”).
Am I being overbearing here? We previously loved his daycare but he’s in a new room and everything is obviously very different now.
Ughh.
Anonymous says
Absolutely not. Call again and say that teachers are not using the app and need to do better.
Anonymous says
Agree. I also think you need to be able to at least briefly meet the new teacher. Even outside in the driveway for 5 minutes quick sometime.
Anon says
That’s tough! My daycare posts updates and photos on an app which really helps me feel 100x better knowing what happens each day. They use to give a paper schedule each day. I don’t think it’s acceptable to get so little information on an ongoing basis.
Maybe send an email requesting more info to be provided and try to acknowledge that this time must be hard for the staff too etc to make it sound less critical and increase the chance for a positive response?
Good luck! That’s hard.
Anne says
I asked for and got a zoom tour of the room and a brief outdoor meeting with teachers before starting. Neither were offered before I asked but both happened and help. I agree communication is hard in this setting!
Anonymous says
I think I tend to be a pretty “hands off” daycare parent but I don’t think this is overbearing. They should be finding a way to communicate with you whether through the app or through the person who brings your son out to the parking lot. Can you email the teachers directly? In a situation like this, I always start with the teachers and only go to the director if I’m unsatisfied with the teacher’s response.
As a practical matter, how old is your kid? Can he give you any information about this day? I’ve been surprised by how accurately my 2.5 year old can report things, especially when prompted (eg, did you poop at school today?)
Anonanonanon says
^this. I was always “hands off” with daycare as well but it’s reasonable to know what your kid ate, or was at least served, that day. It genuinely may not have occurred to them that parents have literally not met their child’s teacher and have zero contact with anyone who knows anything about their day under the new arrangement. I don’t think it’s at all reasonable to reach out, especially since you’re requesting a solution (using the app)
Anonanonanon says
**at all unreasonable
anonn says
this would make me mad too, they’re trading one health and safety issue for another. They need to use the app! Some daycares in our town aren’t letting parents in for drop off, and I don’t understand why, handing my daughter and her stuff off to another adult seems riskier than me walking her to her room and setting her free and putting her stuff in her cubby. At ours all parents wear a mask for drop off and use hand sanitizer before and after. it’s like 4-5 minutes tops.
SC says
How old is your toddler? We received less day to day information as our son got older. By the time he was in the 3-4 year old classroom, a check mark for lunch and a check mark for nap was standard–though it sounds like you’re not even getting that for lunch.
I do think you should have an opportunity to meet the new teachers or at least have a Zoom with them. And there should be several discussions on overall development.
Daycare woes says
He just turned 2. He is in a different room now so maybe they are less communicative than with the under 2s
Anonymous says
I do think they get less communicative in general as kids get older. In the infant/toddler room, we got detailed food, nap and potty updates, as well as a narrative about her day. Not many photos though. Now that we’re in a 2s room we get so many photos (which I actually don’t love, because I’m not wild about the idea of my kid being followed around by an iPad all day) but no narrative about the day or updates on meals, just nap (which is always “no nap”) and potty. I do get to take her to the classroom door though.
Anonymous says
In my state, the information they’re required to report to parents changes with age. 2 might be a cut off where it goes from daily reports to weekly or as-needed.
Anonymous says
Regulations here require them to give you info on meals, diapers, and nap, at least.
Ashley says
I would definitely want more info, preferably direct communication from the teachers. Is there a phone in the classroom you could call directly? Or do the teachers have email addresses? I’ve had teachers just give me their cell numbers before too. I don’t think it’s overbearing to want basic information like that. I would just make sure it’s said in as caring a manner as possible, e.g., I know this new way of handling things is so different from what we’re used to, and I appreciate all you’re doing to keep kiddo safe. I find myself really worrying about X, and it would be helpful to know Y. Can we set up a better way to communicate?
Jeffiner says
My daycare started a rotation of different teachers to be in the front during drop-off/pickup each day, in case a parent had questions or wanted to talk. We have to yell through the window, but I still liked seeing her teacher once a week or so. Her teachers were also good about using the app, too, though.
FVNC says
My daughter started a new private school today, at an on-site “camp” from which she’ll watch her teacher live stream class from a room down the hall. It’s a crazy world we live in that I’m happily paying out the nose for this arrangement. In separate news, my 3 yr old’s daycare is shut down for a couple weeks due to virus exposure (he tested negative, thankfully). The day I get both kids out of the house so I have some peace and quiet, and ya know, time to work, will be a good day!
ElisaR says
hi all! i asked yesterday (and thank you to the anonymous commenter’s response!)
any advice on a 3 year old who is grinding his teeth constantly? (i’m actually asking for my best friend, not my kid….)
Anon says
My kid did it at a younger age (I think just after she got her molars) and the pediatrician and pediatric dentist both told us it was normal for her age and she would grow out of it (she did in a month or two, but oh the noise while she was doing it). At 3 I am not sure, but I would start with the dentist. They may say it’s fine and to wait and see, they may be able to see tooth damage and then want to do something like a mouth guard, I just don’t know given the age.
Anonymous says
Same issue, same answer from the dentist.
Anonymous says
This can be a sign of airway obstruction – is he able to breathe through his nose with his mouth closed? Does he have any allergies or large tonsils?
Anon says
Do your daycare teachers say “I love you” to your kids? For the first time, we have one that does and it’s a little jarring to me although I can’t really put my finger on why. I know that more people loving my kid is a good thing, and that it’s good for kids to hear adults express affection. Maybe part of it is that I feel like actual “love” (as opposed to just caring or affection) should be more permanent, and we’ll likely never see this teacher again after this year? Anyway, I’m curious about people’s thoughts on this.
Anon says
Since I’m supervising virtual kinder, I can tell you my daughters kindergarten teacher says it all the time. She’s been teaching for 32 years and is pretty old school!
Anon Also says
+1
We just ran into my rising first grader’s kinder teacher and he said “I love you!” to her. I remember thinking it was odd the first few times my daughter’s caregivers expressed affection for her, but I really do think it’s genuine and sweet.
Anonymous says
I think it’s inappropriate for a teacher to say to a kid. Little kids will say it to teachers, though.
Anon says
Why do you think it’s inappropriate for a teacher to say it?