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[quote=Anonymous]On the endless negative feedback front, absolutely send your husband to do the pick up.  I found that our daycare workers would rarely confront my husband with any negative feedback.  They might say, "She had trouble settling for nap today," to him whereas I would get, "She refused to lie down and sat up for a HALF HOUR before she FINALLY gave up and went to sleep.  You REALLY need to consider an evaluation for her.  This behavior simply isn't NORMAL!!"  And when I would ask for more information about the feedback -- was she disturbing anyone else (no), was she crying (no), what was she doing (looking out the window or rubbing her blanket on her cheek), did any of the kids not have their full nap because of her (no) -- I would say I really don't see the problem and then I would get a litany of she has to follow the rules and she wasn't following the rules and she never follows the rules.  And I would seriously want to scream.  So I sent my husband and if anyone approached me during drop off and tried to start the endless loop, I responded by saying, "Yes. My husband mentioned that Ms. Mary noticed she had trouble settling for nap.  She's 3.5 so she is probably outgrowing her nap."  Or giving a similar brush off comment.

My child is in upper elementary school now and we went through an evaluation process in 1st grade when her teacher was calling me every afternoon to tell me things like, "Your daughter told Joey that he is her boyfriend...and Joey doesn't want to be her boyfriend."  I sent in a note changing the parent contact information to my husband's and explaining that I am often in court and not in a place where I can use a cellphone or have a private conversation so she should contact my husband with any further concerns.  She, literally, never called again.  We ended up having our daughter evaluated and our evaluation came back negative for any diagnosis.  The evaluation actually said many very positive things about her.  I enjoyed sharing the evaluation immensely.  [/quote]

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