Miss O goes to nursery two days a week, and she absolutely loves it. We both found it a bit tough when she first started, but now she runs in every morning without so much as a backwards glance in my direction (heartless little creature)…
At the end of each day, I get sent a little report on what she’s been up to, which seems to be fairly standard practice these days. Does anybody else read these and worry that they’ve mixed your child up with another, less feral, classmate?
Here are some examples, with my ‘mum report’ extracts for comparison (thank God we don’t actually have to submit one of these; I’d have OFSTED banging on my door within the week!):
Storytime
Nursery: “O loved looking at different story books with Miss A, pointing at the different pictures, feeling the textures and changing pages one by one.”
Home: O insisted on reading ‘Mr Fox has Lost his Socks’ 35 fun-filled times this morning, which made mummy wonder how Mr Fox would fair without other, more vital appendages…O also enjoyed ripping the flaps out of the book one by one, which should really speed up the sock-finding process next time around…
Playtime
Nursery: “O loved engaging with the wooden and metal heuristics toys, and attempting to correctly place hoops on the sticks.”
Home: O adored jamming mummy’s wooden spoon into the DVD player; mummy was much less keen on this. Mummy said a bad word when the frying pan O was wielding engaged with her kneecap. O had a complete shit-fit when the round shape refused to fit through the square hole in her shape sorter. She also thinks mummy is an arsehole for not being able to bend the laws of physics and make this possible. Mummy has put the shape sorter in a ‘safe place’ whilst everyone calms down…
Nursery lunchtime –
(As an aside here, bloody hell!! This looks SO much more appealing than my lunchbox – do you think they deliver??)
Lunchtime with me –
11:30AM – THE END OF TIME: healthy lunch option that mummy has put her blood, sweat and tears into making – eaten sweet FA!!
12:00PM: mummy gives up and falls back on that old favourite, 50 shades of beige, adding some fruit that she knows Miss O won’t eat just to make herself feel better…
Naptime
This is the bit that really gets my goat. Somehow, those magical nursery pixies manage to get 10+ under 2’s to all lie down on mats AT THE SAME TIME and just go to sleep! For hours!! What the actual f*ck?? Are they all so full after their Michelin-starred, perfectly balanced lunch that they just have to sleep it off immediately? I’ve only got one to worry about and I’m still driving her aimlessly around the village every lunchtime singing Postman Pat until she finally gives in…
Music time
Nursery: “O enjoyed playing with the musical instruments at group time this afternoon, smiling and babbling away.”
Home: Mummy put a wash on this afternoon, and was rather bemused to find that it was jangling. O watched her tambourine go round and round in the washing machine, smiling and babbling away, as mummy stomped off to call Daddy and ask him to visit the off license on his way home…
End of the day
Nursery: O was picked up by her father, J.
Home: O was picked up by her mother and thrown at her father the minute he set foot inside the door. Mummy ran towards the wine as fast as her tired legs could carry her, (which was not very, considering the whole frying pan assault incident earlier)…
Would it be weird if I asked Miss A to come on holiday with us? I think it might be a bit more relaxing if we take the child she gets to look after every day…
Pass the wine please 
Haha! Loved this, very funny – well not for you I guess! My little one is n absolute gem for the grandparents, the second I step my foot in the door she morphs into a moaning whining biscuit demanding horror! It’s always met by the same response from the grandparents – ‘she’s been fine till you got here’ Kids!!
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Yes, we really do see them at their very best, and their very, very worst!! X
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Oops! I forgot to add I popped over from #ablogginggoodtime
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Haha, great article. I’ve got all this to come!
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I know!! We didn’t eat like that at nursery right??
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Hilarious! Why oh why can’t they behave so beautifully at home? And you’re right that meal does look incredibly tasty…kids really do have it all these days!
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Haha. I love this. My daughter always get certificates from nursery for “being pleasant” What the… I couldn’t use the word pleasant to describe her. Terror maybe, but not pleasant haha. I’m sure they are mixing her up with someone else else. #TriumphantTales
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LOVE THIS! however we have the opposite. Ben is an angel with me but not with his dad or his nan so when im at work i know he wont eat, rarely sleeps and is miserable but with me he eats everything in sight, sleeps like a dream and is full of giggles (most of the time)
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Haha this is very funny! Mine aren’t at nursery yet but I can only imagine how true this is! #triumphanttales
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Haha! I love this! Why will kids always behave for someone else and not us? I would definitely be inviting Miss A around at the weekends lol.
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This is brilliant! I used to babysit my nephew while my sister worked and we watched A LOT of CBeebies! Then I stopped when heavily pregnant and he went to a childminder who filled notebooks with all the amazing things he did every day. I just don’t know how she did it! #triumphanttales
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Haha I love this! My kids are just the same, they are angels at nursery and devils at home!! When I tell them what the youngest two are like at home they cant believe it, I’m sure they think we are lying! #triumphanttales
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I loved this post! So funny and so true! Rory always seems to eat all his food at nursery yet when I feed him more ends up stuck to the wall! We should clearly just leave it to the professionals! #TriumphantTales
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Hahahaha, agree agree and agree! They really are different kids at nursery aren’t they? Little Man is apparently ‘the example the teachers show to the rest of the class’ – he’s always obedient and quiet and always the first to tidy up.
Enter the house – all my requests are followed by a ‘no’; quiet??? who are you kidding?! and let’s not even start on the tidying up.
Eats EVERYTHING at nursery, and when I give him the same stuff he tells me: But I only like it at school! WTF?!!!
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ha ha ha they always play up for us dont they?!
Thanks for linking to #ablogginggoodtime
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Oh bless you that must be really hard! They really test the boundaries at home don’t they?! It’s because they know they can get away with it I’m sure!! Thanks so much for linking up to #TriumphantTales. xx
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Haha this is fab! I do sometimes think they turn into completely different children at nursery. Mine hates painting at home, but apparently it’s her favourite thing to do at daycare. What’s that all about??! #blogcrush
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