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Are we bad parents? GymBus..
So our daycare has a gymbus that comes every friday to school. They charge $40/a month for a 30 minute session. We can afford it without a problem but we think that this is a ridiculous price. Our son has been at the age that allows him to participate for a few months now. he got the occassional freebee classes trying to get kids to sign up. We have yet to sign him up and the daycare workers have let us know on numerous occassions that he acts out and cries when he can not go on. We have had numerous talkings with him about his behavior.
What should we do? We do not want to sign him up, even though we know he would love it. I guess my question is how do you deal with the daycare add-ons? Even if you can afford them do you do all of them?
Re: Are we bad parents? GymBus..
It is tough isn't it? We have something like this at our daycare. They did have a discount if you paid for multiple weeks. My in laws went on and on about how expensive it seemed but I thought it was good for her to be active etc. I know plenty of other parents didn't let their kids go. ANd I am sure they survive.
We have the issue with frield trips. There were a ton in the summer that DH and I couldn't always take off to go to. So we let her go to the ones not too far away and dealt with the rath of the others she couldn't go on.
This is where I wish the workers were a little better at trying to divert the kids vs. adding to parental guilt. Many a times they would say, "Madi wanted me to ask you is she can go on the field trip?" Really? grrrrrr.
Saying no to something does not make you a bad parent. Every time my kids go to a store with me, they ask to buy something or many things. We could afford almost everything they've ever asked for, but no way in h*ll would I say yes to every request. They don't need everything they ask for and I certainly don't think that everything they've wanted was worth the money.
As for daycare add-ons, at one point H did want to take a Spanish class that some of her friends were in. But we didn't really want to spend the money when we were already teaching her some Spanish. It doesn't sound like she was as upset as your son is, but if she had been, I would have talked to her teachers about ways to make the transition easier and minimize the problem - distraction, outside time, etc. I would be annoyed if the teachers were making you feel bad for not doing an extra!
Ditto Kristen (and everyone else). We were in a similar situation with our oldest and dayacer and the damn Gymbus. But, we just told him "no" - it really worked out to 20 minutes each time and I thought it was a ridiculous price.
Forget the teachers; continue to discuss behavior with your son and tell the teachers you would appreciate it if they stopped pushing the bus on you.
good luck!
My three sons!
I can only share my experience...
I wonder if the daycare teachers are mentioning it to you if is a major fit. When mine didn't go the teachers never tried to sell me on it.
As far as gym bus is concerned both of my kids did it. Both of them really liked the experience and the gym bus teacher. As far as the price it was similar to mommy and me stuff I had done so I figured what the heck. It also helped with their motor skills when they were evaluated by the school district for kindergarten.