If you want to know what your toddler has really<\/i> been doing at daycare, I recommend the following:<\/p>\n
1. Turn on “Treehouse” (Canadian all-kids programming, all the time, except for occasional “sponsored by Pull-Ups” bits) for the first time since you went back to work (approx. um 9 months ago – hey! coincidence?)<\/p>\n
2. Watch your toddler name the characters in a show you have never seen before and thought he never had either (in this case “In the Night Garden”)<\/p>\n
3. Listen to him predict the schedule for the day, which you can substantiate by following along in the TV guide. (Go Diego GO! Miffy! Baccardians! [which, at first, I thought was a show about rum, but is in fact the Backyardigans])<\/p>\n
4. Forgive your daycare provider, as she has a real brat for a kid and it was a cold, rainy winter.<\/p>\n
Optional next step: Go outside. <\/p>\n
Optional next step #2: Leave TV on because it’s amusing to watch the kid get all the shows right (maybe he’s psychic?) and also you are too big to move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you want to know what your toddler has really been doing at daycare, I recommend the following: 1. Turn on “Treehouse” (Canadian all-kids programming, all the time, except for occasional “sponsored by Pull-Ups” bits) for the first time since … Continue reading