What I Do All Day as a Daycare Provider + Answering YOUR Questions!

decorating them. cups we are going to decorate the cups with the dobbers and you are going to put spots on it as if it were a cow, but you can make the cow any color you want. We all do the crafts today, well if you shake it up a little it should work. but I only took one scissors, so lemon, put two little ones, okay, we have our bells, we are going to sing our cowbells, we are going to sing our song, we are going to go here, so you can dance and shake

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bows while we sing ready oh where oh where is the mother cow's calf okay, it's 9:30 when we finish changing diapers and the kids go to the bathroom, shitty bills and let's put on our shoes, coats and hats and I think we're going to do

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I know,

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are we going to do, go for five, not much to the park, so these are the problems I get into with my mom.

She picked up the van a while ago while we were in a circle, she picked up our keys and left me with hers because I needed the car seat to take Celia after preschool and now I just remembered our double stroller is in the van . so I can't use it so I have to use our quad ride or even though I have two kids who need the stroller because Briony can walk but it's too much work for me because she doesn't listen that well and she tries sir. the street, so I think that's what we're going to do.

It's pretty humid outside. I like to go for a walk and then we could play outside. How cold they are afterwards. Oh, presto, you guys are going to crack, so now we're just playing outside. It's now ten since the last Polito around ten thirty are you so well that we're here off our walk? I found out in another question someone asks me what I do with babies outside it really depends on the season how the baby's development is where she is at. I will soon have a new three month old baby. He'll probably just be in his car seat or a warm stroller because there's not much you can do or I can wear the hat, it just depends, I don't like wearing the baby in the winter because I have the option of climbing in the snow and I just don't want to fall over like a baby, so you know, I had Briony all winter, she was usually in Her car seat was tucked in next to me.

You know, if they're big enough, I had one that I would put on the swing for much of the winter. They were like eight months and nine months old when winter came so just put him on the swing and just push that one because they weren't old enough to really play in the snow if it's summer you know hopefully I'll let him wander around or put them like an octagon park so that the other kids don't like to bump into them and hit them, but you know, I try to let them get involved with the other kids as much as possible, but it really depends on, you know, all those factors that I said, the summer husband with the child's favorite oil. or on Mars and I have these old toys that I need to get rid of but they still play with them.

Oh, this is a frisbee from Target a couple years ago and it doesn't really work, but they pretend it's an ice cream shop. What do you have in

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bucket? I filled it up in the excavation area, there are stones there, so now that we are completely frozen, we are going to go inside and get all our things out, okay, we are in, now the kids are taking out their things for naps, those who sleep in other areas. look at books like this little one makes, he brings it to the table and then I'll take the night to change diapers and then the potty trained kid will try to go potty, everyone else is just a ghost party we have except just before nap and right after nap, it's the season for a lot of lotion, so the kids who sleep here choose books to look at and then I just put things between them so they don't bother each other. go to bed when it's never enough, it's not time for now, let's go to lunch.

I just like to do this ahead of time so once it's nap time everything goes great, we got there in a few minutes because it was so cold. I'm going to put your cowbells in your mailboxes up here, okay, it's about 10:50 right now and what I usually do is on the days that we do puzzles, I put the thick puzzles on this console table where the kids little ones can reach them. them and then I put the ones I don't want the highest streets because they don't know how to do these and they just don't come.

I get pieces everywhere I put them on the windowsill this is where the big kids I can still reach it but the little ones can and then they just help themselves and then the big kids today I want them to color so let's go to coloring, but they can always switch to puzzles too and then we just listen to music, okay? so the kids are busy, I'm literally right next to them and this is the white chicken chili we're having today. I did it this Monday night. This is from the cookbook. I cooked once all week and have been trying it this week.

I really love it so I didn't put the Chi in knowing the kids will eat it too but it's really good so they'll just eat a small bowl of that and then I decided on a green or a What we're going to do is the more substantial side . I just looked up how to turn English muffins into garlic bread so I found the recipe on the fairy tiptoe link. I'll link it below, but basically I just make a mixture of butter, garlic, and cheese and then bake it and then I'll do blueberry and strawberry blended in and then I don't know if this will extend to all the kids so maybe we'll throw in some sugar snap peas too with a little bit of Bolthouse ranch and there's a There's also a lot of vegetables in here, so here's the final product.

It looks so good that people would eat it. I decided to use strawberries because they had enough for all the children, the youngest ones. This is a good example of what I'm doing. Children are picky. Emergencies, this little guy is one and he's practically carved, so I just gave him a little bit of this and he'll probably go to weights that way. You can still try it if you want. I'm going to see what Briony does. she already had this one night. She wasn't a big fan, so she just gave him a little bit. I can only give them more but I don't want to waste it and then I gave the older kids the full portion and the garlic. toast with mostly soba perfect for a cold fall day, then I'll have the same.

I just put some fresh cilantro on top of it. He seriously bounces back whenever we have some kind of out of the ordinary interruption, i.e. double hockey sticks. gets loose, my mom walks and I didn't expect her to come back until nap time and she didn't, she didn't experience which is totally fine, she just didn't know and then while she was walking a kid spilled soup everywhere. themselves and then another one who never spills anything because they are still finicky, spills water all over the table so I have the kids crying like crazy and he is still excited because I just got back and Brian wants a gift from Nana. and then children and out of the ordinary events don't mix very well and with my head down I have my Alexa for weight noise Alexa plays white noise pure loop goodbye definitive audio Alexa loop mode we have a camera okay, so I went down to everyone, let's brain his room and then to Celia.

I gave her the option because I wasn't sure when she would return. I gave her the option because she's usually at school today and tomorrow during nap time, so she doesn't nap those days, so I gave her the option. take a nap today or tomorrow and she chose tomorrow someone let her watch TV for like an hour and then made her play quietly because this is my time to get things done. I heard it was time to be quiet and rest, but I thought I'd grab a couple. minutes to answer some of your

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someone asked how often do you go in and out of the nap room to keep them down and quiet to keep them down and quiet like hardly ever I'm going to go down and check on them every time you know 20 30 minutes, but I don't know if it's just the kids I have or if I'm really, really strict about nap time, but everyone stays quiet and I know if they're quiet when they interrupt me and my friends. to give them more of a warning that they're moving somewhere else away from everyone, which they don't like and you know, you know we've talked about it a lot, you know we need to rest if you're not tired, that's totally fine.

You can look at your books, you can get up and go to the bathroom, but you know we're not disturbing our friends, so I'm very, very strict about it because the little ones especially need a full two-hour nap, so it's just time. . That's right and yeah, but I check on them frequently to make sure you know they're okay and everything, but I have the monitor on at all times that scans them from the rooms so I can always see them and hear them, you know, once. They are raising another question about how to deal with your own children's behavior problem.

Guys, this is a giant struggle for me almost daily, which is why our four-year-old daughter goes to preschool three days a week. Her teachers also thought it would be a good idea because you know we are getting help with her behavior at her house. I'm not going to go into it too much, but you know there are some anxiety issues and things like that that we're dealing with, so you know it's hard, it's hard for the kids. share each other and it's very difficult because we have to stick to licensing rules and things like that. I do my best to buy time with them to hold them when they want to be held and let them have space when they want space, but I will.

I'm not lying, you know I get quite angry with my own children during the day, especially with Briony, it's difficult because she is a very wild child, she has a husband and she can move. You know, she's not trying to be naughty or anything, she just wants to do it. She helps with everything and does everything on her behalf and gets involved in everything and I'm trying to teach and she's taking things away and things like that. I just do my best to anticipate what's going to happen, but with anything with kids, he's never enough. So I try to stay lighthearted about it because it's just the nature of the job and the nature of being a mother of young children and then someone asked me about my sick day policies.

Do you use your personal or unpaid vacation days? I personally do it. I don't pay if I closed for some reason with a one day notice if it's not like a couple weeks notice or I do all my days off at the beginning of the year for the most part if it's late notice then I don't charge anything. I just don't feel good personally. I know some people who have sick days on their policy or don't like having them on their policy. They can use other vacation time. I just don't feel well, so I'm just telling you. you know, you have to wait a couple of days, you know, especially in the colder months, you know that my kids are going to get sick or that I'm going to get sick or that something random is going to happen, like when we had Yellowjackets 45 Yellowjackets in our take your or leave electricity. go out or something, you know, I just try to wait for that, so it's no big deal when it happens and I get that hit, okay, so now I'll sit down and do some work, have dinner, this is when I'm a very productive like One to two is my most productive time and that is today.

I'm going to be working on my Facebook group preparing content for that, but you also know that I'm often meal planning, planning my Walmart pickup, scheduling interviews, emailing parents, oh. Me and I will update our Facebook group. I do it every day. It's a secret group that you must be added to and invited to, where I only post photos of what we did that day in a short description. Well, guys, I just rushed it. Out for an hour and a half, the kids are still sleeping and quiet, luckily it's just coloring today. I'm going to empty the dishwasher now and prepare snacks.

Normally, Sylia would be back on the bus at this time, so I have the door open waiting. her, but she's fine here. She had some

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about what I do in the last hour of the day and how boring and long it is and I totally understand. I love summers because we can go out and play, but you know. In the colder weather we usually stay inside, we'll probably go out for a bit, but I doubt we'll stay outside all the time, so some things I do in the afternoon, sometimes I set up stations with different stations for the kids.

Playing is a little harder with young children because they don't really understand the point of the seasons. Sometimes we go to the basement and just play freely if all the kids are here because there is a lot in the

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and they I get tired of those toys after a while, around 4:30, every day we will come and I do some kind of activity teal with the kids, they usually just color and make stickers, it's time for me to let them make stickers and I'll get started. I'm making dinner and this makes me feel less like I'm waiting for my parents to start my night.

I'm getting a head start on dinner, so my kids have less time to wait, it keeps them productive, you know, sogeneral. I have water and they cool off, but we've been outside and they just become routine. You know, very rarely will I put on a show and ask them to watch it. It depends on how the day went and if I'm like it. at the end of my rope and I think that's totally fine, but those are the things I usually do because I get really bored at the end of the day, especially on Friday afternoons, those are the longest snacks, let's have one of your favorites, which are just pretzel sticks, and then I let them choose if they want peanut butter or hummus to dip it in.

She loves some hummus. Then I have our books and I sit here so they are ready for snack time. It starts off good, it's only three o'clock so the fools will put all the water bottles on the table where they go so the kids know where to sit and then I'll drop them all off so I'll be changing diapers and the big kids waiting to go to the bath one by one and then we will go for a snack, so our two options for today's stories, guys, our little foxes surprise or open very carefully, which one do you want?

The line leader was fun. Okay, have our snack, naturally, now we have to do it. do that, what does the fox say? We're all ready to go out, seriously, she's still playing with it, are you guys doing it? I can even trick-or-treat, yeah Briony, are you trick-or-treating? There you go, do you see me on both sides so there's always someone climbing? It's 4:10 one of the kids went home about ten minutes ago. They were pretty cold and I really want to finish some of my things for the night. and then go to dinner, since I think my husband will be home late tonight, and although he is not home now, I want to start dinner at 4:30, so I will prepare our things for tomorrow, so that's how it will be . ready to go and then I'm going to clean the bathroom and whatever else I can think of to do so I'll put out my Thursday bin for tomorrow and it has everything I need and then Thursday is in the morning or whenever the kids like open crafts, play dough or sensory bins, then I fill them, so we're going to do this game, a song to learn the number six, I have our shape card, our book, so I'm just going to get all that, ok , we uploaded our book, another PD got our little match, the animal with mom or dad, our books that will read it, snack, yes, my goodness, it's okay, my four year old was just trying to be annoying, you're very annoying feeling of the question of the day and I was about to do this, I put this backwards, I prepared our calendar, so I'm going to go clean the bathroom while they play, okay, it's about 420, now it's another house, so I only have one more family with two children. on the left, we'll be gone any minute now or like a 455.

Another question I had was talking about disinfecting. I don't disinfect much. I do more in the winter when everyone is sick, but I usually just spray Clark's anywhere on my toy. wounds and pushes on Fridays and, you know, I disinfect the bathroom every day and then I go down and wipe down the surfaces with Clorox wipes from time to time, but other than that, I don't disinfect much. just because I feel like it's better not to clean too much because kids need to develop immunity to things and generally my penis hair is very healthy just with regular cleaning so I don't do a lot of heavy disinfecting all the time and I don't really like them being exposed to a lot of chemicals, so now we're up there coloring.

I give you. I just take the backing off the little ones and let them use stickers. It's the only time I love new stickers at the end of the day and it keeps them busy for a while, sometimes like I said they play, but today they wanted to make Santa stickers on the way home. I'm going to start dinner by making this chicken and broccoli fried rice that the cook eats once all week, so I have all the ingredients already prepared, that's it, mix it all together, basically the kids just went home and It smells so good here, my husband's.

One thing I forgot to do earlier that I do every night is feed our cat, empty his cat litter into the diaper trash. I'm in the diaper trash, but it's already after dinner, so I'm taking out all the trash and I'll do that at the same time. Well, guys, let's call it a night. Let's have dinner together. As a family, I plan to do a nighttime routine very soon, so let me know if you're interested in that, but as always, thank you all so much for watching. See you next time you say bye, bye, have a nice day.

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