https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:39:39 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-kid-is-in-daycare-or-with-a-nannyfamily-do-you-want-them-to-tell-you-about-milestones#post-1949872 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:55:53 +0000 Cole 1949872@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I made the "mistake" once as a nanny of telling the mom about the baby hitting a milestone and she was heart broken so I decided not to tell anymore. This became a problem when another family had a toddler who started walking for me a good trip weeks before he did it for his parents (they were in the middle of a very trying family situation on top of work.) Finally the 6 year old got him to walk while the mom was nearby. The 6 year old was sooo excited to be a part of the "first steps" that it made all my guilt over it worth it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-kid-is-in-daycare-or-with-a-nannyfamily-do-you-want-them-to-tell-you-about-milestones#post-1949846 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:27:55 +0000 skibobrown 1949846@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, I don't think they told us either. One day I was picking DD up from daycare, and she took a few steps toward me away from a table. At that point we hadn't witnessed any first steps yet, so I was totally shocked. Her teachers didn't seem surprised in the slightest, so I asked them how long she had been taking steps at school. They just said "oh, we assumed she had been walking for a while". Ugh. I was so sad I had missed her first steps, but pretty excited that she was walking! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-kid-is-in-daycare-or-with-a-nannyfamily-do-you-want-them-to-tell-you-about-milestones#post-1949832 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:06:38 +0000 SleepyMonkey 1949832@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>our nanny tells us milestones! it seems like she is as excited about them as we are. she texted me a picture of poop in a potty the other day, haha.</p> <p>maybe daycare doesn't realize its a milestone and they think that your kids have been doing whatever milestone it is for awhile now, or that the parents have seen it already. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-kid-is-in-daycare-or-with-a-nannyfamily-do-you-want-them-to-tell-you-about-milestones#post-1949765 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:24:58 +0000 Cherrybee 1949765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My inlaws have E 3 days per week and they can't wait to tell me when she has done something new. I don't mind though.... Its just nice to hear what she has been up to. Nursery have never mentioned a milestone to us in the ten months she has been going there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-kid-is-in-daycare-or-with-a-nannyfamily-do-you-want-them-to-tell-you-about-milestones#post-1949757 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:07:23 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 1949757@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>As a former nanny, I was instructed never to tell her mom. I would tell her dad &amp; he would try to set up a situation where the mom could see her do it "for the first time". Which is only a shame because I caught her crawling for the first time on video! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-kid-is-in-daycare-or-with-a-nannyfamily-do-you-want-them-to-tell-you-about-milestones#post-1949719 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:20:44 +0000 jmarionsmith 1949719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i worked at a daycare during college and i was specifically told by the director to never tell a parent their lo did something for the first time. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-kid-is-in-daycare-or-with-a-nannyfamily-do-you-want-them-to-tell-you-about-milestones#post-1949709 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:15:18 +0000 Mamaof2 1949709@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ha! When DS was in the infant room o e if his teachers told me they never tell parents if a milestone happens BUT I wanted to know - so she called me when he took his 1 st step!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-kid-is-in-daycare-or-with-a-nannyfamily-do-you-want-them-to-tell-you-about-milestones#post-1949654 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:43:42 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1949654@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I prefer to know. I wouldn't want to worry about a delay and then find out she's been doing it all along. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-kid-is-in-daycare-or-with-a-nannyfamily-do-you-want-them-to-tell-you-about-milestones#post-1949628 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:28:33 +0000 travellingbee 1949628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are past all that really now. He is walking and talking etc. I didn't tell them either way, and they never mentioned any milestones to me, but I wouldn't have minded them telling me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-kid-is-in-daycare-or-with-a-nannyfamily-do-you-want-them-to-tell-you-about-milestones#post-1949627 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:28:12 +0000 blackbird 1949627@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't care if it happens at daycare, T usually tells me "she's close". It still counts for me, if it's the first time for ME to see it. I still want to know :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-kid-is-in-daycare-or-with-a-nannyfamily-do-you-want-them-to-tell-you-about-milestones#post-1949626 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:27:49 +0000 autumnlove 1949626@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I definitely want to know about milestones. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-kid-is-in-daycare-or-with-a-nannyfamily-do-you-want-them-to-tell-you-about-milestones#post-1949623 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:26:02 +0000 mrbee 1949623@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our two kids were with a nanny and then in daycare. In all that time, our nanny and our daycare teachers were never the first people to see our kids sit up, crawl, stand or walk. We managed to catch all of these firsts at home ourselves.</p> <p>That seemed a little suspicious to me, so I compared notes with the other parents in the daycare. They said that the teachers never mentioned any milestones to them either! The odds of that happening must be 1,000,000:1!! I'm pretty sure that our nanny and our daycare teachers both saw plenty of milestones, but just never mentioned it to us... if so, I gotta say that's probably a smart way to minimize parenting guilt! I personally wouldn't care either way though.</p> <p>Does your daycare/nanny/sitter tell you about milestones? Do you want to hear about them, or would you rather catch these "firsts" yourself - even if they're not true firsts? </p>