Kiddicaru nursery
Hey just wondering if anyone goes to kiddicaru in Chelmsford and how it's been? I'm also wondering what their policies are around sleep - do they wake your baby up if you ask? We're awhile away from nursery and can ask questions when we visit, but find it really helpful to hear real experiences. Looking at the writtle and town sites! Thanks š
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My LOs go to writtle. How old are they? We started limiting our daughterās sleep to an hour when she was perhaps nearly 2? They did agree to try wake her but said if no success by just saying her name, they wonāt force it! However technically their sleep policy says they canāt wake them at all x
Thanks Alice! My little one is 6 months and we're looking to join around March time! We're quite low sleep needs at the moment and has to be woken up from naps otherwise won't sleep at night, so starting to get worried about that!
What nurseries/childminders are about that takes 1 year olds please? We are writtle end too and can only find pre-schools, but havent looked that hard yet tbh
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I just kicked out my husband for the last time found out his still talking to some one itās awful crying this late with ur one year old next to u
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My MIL is a bitchš sorry, just had to start off with that. Okay, now that I got that out š let me give yāall the backstory because I genuinely need to know if Iām being dramatic or if this is as fucked up as it feels.
My MIL is the CEO of the company I work for. My husband also works there, heās a Coordinator, and I was working as an Administrative Assistant/Peer Support Specialist. My husband and his mom have not been on speaking terms since July. Iām not going to dump the entire family tree on yāall š. Just know things between them have been BAD. We were also supposed to go to Thailand with her, but because of the issues between her and my husband, that trip basically got taken away from us. She went without us and came back literally ONE DAY before our gender reveal. She was not invited.
Now, before anybody says, āWell, thatās her sonās mom, how could you not invite her?ā there is a LOT more to that situation, and at this point, my husband and I decided we were not going to pretend everything was fine just because it was a family event. We did invite some of our coworkers, though. Fast forward to Tuesday. I get called in and told that Iām being demoted. The reason I was given?
Budget cuts.
Okayā¦ sucks, but whatever. Iām trying to be an adult about it. Iām pregnant, I have bills, and obviously getting demoted is stressful, but if the company is cutting the budget, then I can at least understand that itās a business decision.
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My husband and like 7 other ppl at the company got promoted the same week!! And then I was supposed to work until Friday in the office, but she sends another coworker of mine to tell me that she wants me gone the same day so my co worker can move in my space. How unprofessional!! Eventually my husband talked to his mom, and suddenly there were apparently MULTIPLE reasons for my demotion that had nothing to do with budget cuts. She allegedly told him that I had said I couldnāt lift certain items because Iām pregnant. NEVER SAID THAT! She brought up paperwork that supposedly wasnāt turned in. NEVER DID THAT! And then there was a customer complaint over the phone. BUT WAS CONFIRMED TO NOT BE ME! It was another employee.
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He is in the army and travels further to work than I do. He commutes around 1 hour 15 each way and spends most of his time in the gym if he isnāt at work.
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Potty training tips!!
Weāve been potty training our nearly 3 year old since the beginning of September and I honestly thought we would have been finished by now š
Heās fine with going in the house now but he will only go in his little potty that sits in the living room, he wonāt go on the actual toilet. He goes himself most of the time but we do still have to ask him sometimes and I feel like he holds his wees in for hours sometimes. Heās is completely fine with poos though.
The problem is heās naked from the waist down in the house. If we put anything on him he just thinks he can wee in it š pants, trousers, pyjamas etc he just doesnāt seem to understand that he still needs to use the potty. He also doesnāt really care if heās wet so I donāt know how to get him past that.
Iāve got no idea what to do when we go out either, I offer to take him to the toilet but he never goes so I just end up putting a nappy on him to go out for an easier life.
He starts nursery next week and Iām starting to panic a bit š Has anyone else had a toddler like this and how did you get them to the next stage?
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