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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are expecting the wrong things of her. She is already providing what is developmentally best for him.

You are seeking developmentally inappropriate parent pleaser activities that daycares detest providing to the younger children, but do so to make parents happy and bring in the $$. [/quote]

This, and as a parent, I used to hate it when they did it. My kid was in PT daycare at this age and when I'd pick her up they'd hand me her "craft" for the day. It would be like a hand print with some leaves glued on to make it look like a tree, and her name written on it by the teacher. And I'd immediately envision the daycare teachers lining up the kids and one by one, taking their hands, dipping it in the paint, and applying it to the paper (you KNOW the kids didn't do this activity in a free and independent way because they'd come home covered in paint with a piece of paper smeared in paint and no discernible hand print). I didn't even believe my kid glued the leaves on. I wouldn't care if she did!

Now, I actually did have a kid who was extremely interested in arts and crafts and loved to color and play with sensory toys. But I'd just give her some crayons and paper, or a big bin of beads and blocks, and let her have at it. These were things she gravitated to and therefore we encouraged. Other kids don't care for this stuff and want to run around and be physical. Other kids are really into imaginative play. If you let the kids choose what they want and follow their lead, they will get what they need. Which is what it sounds like this nanny is doing.

OP, you can always buy more art supplies (age appropriate and easily accessible to your kid, not elaborate supplies that require intense supervision and involvement) and sensory toys and put them in his play space. If he is interested in them, he will get them out. You can even point them out to the nanny and she can offer them to your son. But he may not be interested, which is fine. Don't ask your nanny to do things to please you when she is already providing everything she needs to for your son.[/quote]

Yep-at that age all those crafts are actually made by the teachers, and for the most part the children are unhappy while doing them because they are either forced to do them (gently, of course) or not allowed to do them the way they want to do them. [/quote]

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