My DC kids are all off today! I expected my new DCB to be off (started last week, still isn't fully settled) but my own girls in particular are really off. Both not listening, difficulty following directions, destructive, pestering kids. My 4 yo DD refused to get ready when it was time to go outside. She loves being outside but has always found this transition difficult. Today I had zero patience and took away her TV for not listening and then just left her in the daycare (everything is safe down there and I have a video monitor I bring out). This works for her as I did it twice before and she thinks "oh crap" and gets herself ready and comes out to join us. Once she was outside I put her on timeout and then she joined the group. Great outside, come in and everything is good. Doesn't like lunch so I send her to her room as she isn't going to eat it and is pestering her peers. I am so done. 2.5 yo DD is also not listening, pestering her peers at the table, ran threw the daycare with her sandy, muddy shoes.

I don't have the issues with my girls on the weekend and we had a really amazing weekend. I wonder how much they are just sick of having a daycare in their house, sharing their mom and how much is just the transition from a more laid back routine to the daycare routine...