Too many goodbyes for toddler?

[kgtest]

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Originally Posted by marko Didn't have daycare when I was a kid, but when I got to kindergarten at age 4 1/2, mom was so glad to get rid of me, she opened the car door and said: "Go through that door and I'll see you in a few hours" Somehow, someway, through some act of God and my guardian angels, and as unbelievable as it might sound, I managed to survive.

Lol. You make a completely obvious and valid point. At first I took the note to be an issue with my son wanting more goodbyes...but in reality the provider was coaching me the parent and it makes perfect sense. She followed up by saying fall transition is usually hard..and for the parent not the kid lol. I did one quick hug today and he cried and I had to kind of shut the door and mobe him away to make it quick today. This was new lol. First time he was so upset at dropoff since we started with the new provider and he cried that first transitional week.

At the end of the day I feel like hes safe and I can go about my work day knowing I can trust the provider and to me that peace of mind is worth every penny I spend on his care.

[Walt34]

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Originally Posted by marko Didn't have daycare when I was a kid, but when I got to kindergarten at age 4 1/2, mom was so glad to get rid of me, she opened the car door and said: "Go through that door and I'll see you in a few hours"

Your mom drove you to kindergarten? I had to walk, it was about a mile. Uphill both ways of course.

[6miths]

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Originally Posted by Walt34 Your mom drove you to kindergarten? I had to walk, it was about a mile. Uphill both ways of course.

Usually in a blizzard or driving rain! With no shoes!

[Winemaker]

There is a SAHM who lives at end of cul-de-sac who divorced her husband after he put her through college and grad school for accounting, and she refused to get a job. He had an accounting office in the house.

She has NEVER said good bye to her 3 kids, she is the ultimate helicopter mom. She drives them to the bus stop, and walks them to the bus; and she is there in afternoon to help them off the bus and drive them home. The street has 6 houses on each side, before cul de sac The oldest is a junior in high school, and I'm sure he wants to climb under a rock. Last year, the door bell rang, and it was the mother, and three kids selling some restaurant discount card for the band. The MOM gave the "spiel" about the cards, she has remarried, but he lives in a different city, state. I'm just waiting to read about them kids in the newspaper one day, well, see them on TV, as I don't get the newspaper anymore. She probably takes their lunch to school.

[kgtest]

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Originally Posted by Winemaker There is a SAHM who lives at end of cul-de-sac who divorced her husband after he put her through college and grad school for accounting, and she refused to get a job. He had an accounting office in the house. She has NEVER said good bye to her 3 kids, she is the ultimate helicopter mom. She drives them to the bus stop, and walks them to the bus; and she is there in afternoon to help them off the bus and drive them home. The street has 6 houses on each side, before cul de sac The oldest is a junior in high school, and I'm sure he wants to climb under a rock. Last year, the door bell rang, and it was the mother, and three kids selling some restaurant discount card for the band. The MOM gave the "spiel" about the cards, she has remarried, but he lives in a different city, state. I'm just waiting to read about them kids in the newspaper one day, well, see them on TV, as I don't get the newspaper anymore. She probably takes their lunch to school.

Lol. She sounds like a winner. As for her ex the saying goes....there is a sucker born every minute. In his case a big ole WonderPop lol

[Murf2]

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Originally Posted by 6miths Usually in a blizzard or driving rain! With no shoes!

Blizzard? The snow was soo deep we had to jump fence post to fence post to keep from being buried alive.

[davebarnes]

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Originally Posted by Murf2 Blizzard? The snow was soo deep we had to jump fence post to fence post to keep from being buried alive.

And, because it was snowing, you had to carry lumps of coal in your pockets for the stove.

[braumeister]

You had pockets?
We had to carry the coal in our cheeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7w...&frags=pl%2Cwn

[candrew]

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Originally Posted by davebarnes And, because it was snowing, you had to carry lumps of coal in your pockets for the stove.

Lucky you having a stove! Ours was a fire pit dug in the earthen floor.

[6miths]

Joking aside, who can remember walking on top of the snowbanks at the side of the road that were higher than the roofs of the passing vehicles? Those were the days.