15 Daycare Moments That Parents and Teachers Are Unlikely to Forget

Teachers and parents know that even the most ordinary day in daily care is never boring. Children constantly surprise them with their actions, words and unconventional view of the world. And some moments are remembered for years to come, becoming part of family stories.

• We’re sitting at the kids’ Christmas party. A little boy walks onto the stage dressed as a bunny and says, “Yesterday, my mom said your party is bad. It used to be better.” The poor teacher went pale.
  She gently asks the “bunny” to say his poem. He turns around and goes, “No, Mom said I don’t have to embarrass myself.” I’m sitting there in shock. Then out of the corner of my eye, I see one of the moms quietly trying to pull her hoodie over her face and disappear.
  At least, she was honest. You really can’t lie to kids, they’ll repeat everything, word for word. He never read the poem, and I’ll forever remember that party as a stand-up show. © Mamdarinka / VK
• I took my daughter to preschool. She stayed there for one day, and then we were politely asked to withdraw her documents. And the reason? Absolute gold.
  Turns out, all the kids were throwing tantrums because my daughter already knows how to read and can write a little. So, while everyone else is learning the alphabet, she just sits quietly in the corner playing with her dolls.
  And the others are jealous because they want to play too. Then I actually got a lecture that teaching a child is the teachers’ job, not the parents’. I’m sorry... what? © Chamber 6 / VK
• We hoped that our child would bring drawings and different crafts from the daycare. But he brought rotavirus. © XAYZZzzzz / Pikabu

• In daycare, 2 boys had a crush on me at the same time. At some point, they decided to end this “love triangle.” They came up to me and asked me which of them I would choose.
  I thought about it and upset both of them — I said that I would live with Mickey, my dog. Now I’m 16, and I’m beginning to suspect that there was something prophetic in that statement of mine. © SHCogwarts / VK
• As a child, I was a very direct person. One day when I was in daycare, the television came there.
  I was asked, “Girl, what is your favorite thing about daycare?” Well, I smiled sweetly and made the teacher blush with the answer, “I don’t like your daycare at all.” I wish I had that confidence now. © Not everyone will understand / VK

• The teacher gave all the parents an assignment to take the children to the zoo, choose one animal and describe it. Well, we did. My daughter walked past all the animals, stopped at a fire hydrant, and firmly declared that she would write about it. She wouldn’t listen to me, even flamingos didn’t surprise her, so I had to agree.
  I wrote down with her everything I knew about fire hydrants. In the daycare, they praised her and said that fire safety rules are much more important than knowing how a lion sleeps. © Not everyone will understand / VK
• My daughter started going to daycare. It took me a long time to get to work, so I took her to the daycare at 6:40 a.m., but she went to bed late. So, she didn’t get enough sleep.
  In the end, I had to change my job, because one day the teacher sent me this photo below. Now, I don’t take my daughter to daycare that early. © Behappy0991 / Pikabu

• My son told me yesterday. A girl brought her doll to the daycare. There are not many toys in there, and all of them are already quite shabby. Of course, everyone rushed to play with this doll.
  When the doll got into the hands of my son, it turned out that its arm was broken. The girl broke in tears, the teacher saw it and scolded my son. And he doesn’t understand why it is his fault, because the doll was already broken.
  In the end, I went to talk to the daycare today, but they still didn’t believe my son. They want me to buy a new doll to give it to the girl, and the son is now “bad” for other children. I don’t know what to do. © poipoipoipoi01 / Pikabu
• One day I ran away from the daycare. I made a little dig under the fence and crawled through. I was about 3 years old. I didn’t like it at the daycare, so I went home.
  I remember very well that everyone was asking me on the way, “Girl, where are you going? Where’s your mommy?” I replied I was going home to my mom and ran away from them. My memories stop when I knocked on the door and my grandmother opened it.
  There was a lot of commotion at the daycare that day. There were no mobile phones, Grandma didn’t have a phone at home. She went to the neighbors to call my mom at work and tell her I was home. But I was never sent to the daycare again. © Izyaslav in a rage / ADME

• My daughter started going to daycare, and every day she brings new phrases from there. For example, “Don’t push Andy,” “Finish your porridge,” and so on. And today, she looked the cat in the eye and said, “I’m so tired of you!” It seems that the 18 little ones have already tired the teacher. © Mamdarinka / VK
• My little one was sick for a fortnight. During this time, a new playhouse was installed on the daycare playground. From time to time, the teachers wrote to us and asked, “How is Olivia? It is so quiet and peaceful without her.”
  But when she came back, the daughter and her friend were running and waving boards from that very house. They took it apart like monkeys from the cartoon. And then all the teachers were like, “Well, Olivia is back!” © Elena / ADME

• When I was in daycare, I filled in a few letters ahead of the class in my alphabet book and was very proud of myself until someone saw and said I was going to get in trouble. I remember being terrified that I was going to go to jail, so I hid under the little wooden play structure we had for the rest of the day. When we finally passed the letters I was ahead on, I felt like I had dodged the biggest bullet! © poke-a-doke / Reddit

• My cousin ate badly from early childhood, and he didn’t like soup even more. But when he went to daycare, he instantly began to eat it.
  Parents immediately began to praise him, “Max, you’re so big now, you’re eating soup!” And he replied, “In our daycare, if you don’t eat soup at once, they put the main course right into it!” Ah, the harsh realities of childhood. © Boba / ADME

• When I was a child, my mom gave me an artificial rose sprinkled with glitter and sprayed with my mom’s perfume. I was delighted and took it with me to daycare.
  One of the girls asked me to look at it. I gave it to her and she... No, she didn’t steal it or spoil it. She went up to the teacher and said, “Look what she gave you.”
  The teacher was moved almost to tears, she immediately put the rose in a pencil box on her desk and said to me, “Sunshine, thank you! I’m so pleased! What a beautiful rose!”
  She was so happy that I couldn’t tell her that I didn’t really give her anything. How I mourned for that rose at home! I still don’t understand why that girl did that. © Overheard / VK
• My 3-year-old daughter has been going to a football class in daycare for a few months. They hold classes right in the assembly hall. But when I asked her, “How many goals have you scored today?” the answer was always the same, “I was not given a ball.”
  Well, okay, I think, she’s small, probably, the coach knows better. And then my husband took her from the daycare and found out that other children have never hit the ball either.
  As a result, we asked the coach, “Why don’t you let the kids play with a ball?” And he replied, “Where can they do it? There are only glass and mirrors around.” © forest.river / Pikabu

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