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Super weird. I can sort of understand the onesie/snaps thing, since presumably this is an at-home situation and she needs to be able to do diaper changes as quickly as possible.

Everything else is a little bonkers. Does she have an allergy/sensitivity to scents?

#1 I can see if parking is limited. Our daycare parking lot can get crowded at certain times of day and it drives me crazy when parents just sit in their car as I circle the lot. Especially since I usually have to pick up my oldest as well who is at a different school.

The rest? Yeah that seems a little strange and extreme.

1 is understandable depending on the parking. Our daycare parking lot is small and can get crazy at busy times.

You should be able to choose what brand of diapers you want and put your kiddos in what clothes you want. Yes snaps can be a bit of a pain but not that much.

If someone has a scent allergy or sensitivity I can understand the last one.

That’s really weird. I guess I understand about the parking since one would hold up space for other parents to park/drop off. And the scent thing, I would ask if there is someone with sensitivity/allergy to scent? I use free & clear but I put EO on my wool dryer balls because I like our clothes to smell nice! I would be annoyed with that unless it’s really to accommodate someone. Lastly, the diaper is just weird; I happen to use Up&Up so I would not be okay with that. I know ours don’t want the Pampers pull ups because they don’t have tabs so they would have to take off shoes/pants to put on a new diaper which I totally understand.

#3 is a little weird but I understand snaps are a pain in the butt.

I don’t think the others are unreasonable.

I am sure that the fragrance thing is due to a sensitivity. I also get migraines due to scents, and am not sure why it needs to be communicated more gently than other allergies. If a kid in the daycare was allergic to nuts, they would just say: No nuts! For a while I had an employee who just would not stop wearing very scented products (even though our office has a no scent policy) and it was very difficult for me to do my job because I was going down with migraines on the regular.

A lot of that seems extreme. Separates for babies?! Are you kidding me?

The only weird rule our daycare had that was similar was no Kirkland brand wipes because they gave one of the teachers a rash.

The diaper one is the weirdest. We only use Up and Up diapers and they work great for us. We switched to them after mostly using Pampers for my older kid's first two years, and have saved so much money. I'd be tempted to ask if they want to pay the difference for name brand diapers if we couldn't use them... We don't belong to costco, so Kirkland doesn't work, and other cheap options like Aldi aren't located conveniently. That one is odd.

I would be annoyed with the no onesies rule. Those and sleepers are what my three month old lives in right now. I don’t like separates for babies because the shirts always seem to ride up.

The Up & Up diapers thing is the weirdest... WHY? I get a few of the others, they must have had issues in the past.

@skinnycow: I highly doubt you're annoying your daycare with the onesies/sleepers.

Sleep and Plays (footed zipper sleepers) are like the EASIEST thing to me to keep my youngest in. I mean, it's a zipper? Sometimes I feel bad I don't dress her in 'real' clothes more often but hey, she's a baby. And our home daycare doesn't care. She actually prefers these over traditional outfits due to all the reasons above about shirts riding up and having to wiggle feet into shorts or pants haha

Most workplaces are scent free, so #1 doesn’t bother me because I never wear scents anyway. I don’t really think any of the rules are that weird but it does seem sort of weird once they’re written out!