To find the first person reports from my 1 year old a bit weird?

[icepole]

The nursery my dd goes to is lovely but at the end of the day they hand parents a little report. It had information about what they have eaten and how they slept etc so very useful. However at the bottom of the report they write a paragraph as if written by my daughter saying things like 'I played on the cars, broom, broom!' or 'I had lots of fun on the slide weeeeee!' I find it a bit odd and end up asking about her day anyway.

Do other nurseries do this? I don't get it, it is an adult writing to another adult. I want to know how her day was not how well you can pretend to talk like a one year old or am I missing something?

My nursery does this and I think it's cute! They always make me smile.

I think it's quite sweet, if a shade unnecessary......

But that does tell you what she has done. I cant say it would bother me as long as I found out what had been done during the day I would be happy.

I just don't find it useful, I want to know if she was settled, happy etc not have an adult pretending to write like a baby. I am a grumpy sod though!

It's quite sweet to receive as a parent but must be pretty excrutiating as a nursery worker to have to write them.

I think I'd rather have "Little Jimmy played on the slide and enjoyed it".

They use third person at my DD's nursery but short sentences as if a child was writing it. I don't know if this is deliberate or a result of the nursery teacher's education.

Distressingly I find myself using the same style on the odd occasion I have to write a message in DD's book.

It doesn't bother me massively I just find it strange and not useful, I always have to talk to them to get the proper information.

I am a teacher, perhaps I should start writing reports as though I were the pupil, that would be interesting!

Yes Hassled I would rather that too, I always feel a bit cringey reading them.

It would be far too ick for me. Ours are in the third person, but it's still true that the more useful information about the day is missing. Today's, for example, would more truthfully have read "DS was a grumpy so and so today, but luckily he didn't hit Jacob again. He needs an early bedtime." (which is what his lovely key worker actually told me )

I suppose it could be useful if your dd was trying to express something to you, "weeee, mama,weeee", for you to understand the phrases she used in that activity.
It is a bit twee though.

i didn't know they did that.
it would have annoyed me as they couldn't possibly be as articulate as my toddler was...
icepole.... 'i had great fun today making miss mad. i talked all the time, and when she spoke to me i turned away and spoke to jack...she hates that! then i didn't do my work and guess what? she gave me a detention! that was sooo unfair! anyway, that's why i didn't make any progress this year, because my teacher is unreasonable and wants me to pay attention in class and do some work!!! can you believe it? the cheek!'

my pupils would not be as articulate as that and the language would certainly not be as clean! The phrase 'Today I did fuck all' would feature quite heavily!

I don't think the written info is supposed to take the place of a verbal handover - would you really want everything written down so you don't have to speak to the staff?

No but handover is a busy time and I would prefer real information on the sheet if they are going to write something down.

Like what though? It already says when she slept and what she ate, plus something she did in the day - what else do you need beyond that?

They are conveying 'real' information though if they've told you what she's been doing during the day.

The thing is, you'd rather just have the facts (as would I) but I think that some of the parents might want to feel closer to the experience and reading a 3rd person report might feel too 'professional' to them.

People must like it or they wouldn't do it.

Surely if it was note worthy, it would be documented.

All children have moments when they don't want to be at Nursery and ask for their parents/togo home, do you really want to hear about it, or do you want to know what they have enjoyed and what has aided their development?

It gives the child a 'voice' as such and not all parents are at the same level, so wouldn't want the report written from an EY provider POV.

"I would prefer real information on the sheet"

Would you want to know how many times they have had to use distraction to comfort the child, when it falls into the realm of normal?

To much time would goup filling in paperwork, tbh, which would increase Nursery fees for the extra staff.

I don't even get a sentence! I get 'Outside' or 'cars' or 'sandpit'.

What about them?!?!

DD's nursery was sensible and put things like "Juxlette was really interested in xxx and told us about yyyy". Infinitely preferable.

It's one sentence at the bottom of the page full of info

Yabu

Eee some people
Moan about owt!

seriously you think that is odd its a daily report about your baby not a business memo , I think it is quite cute meh

of course it isnt useful it is a bit of fun they are sharing the fun your baby had on the slide,

I was a a friend's house and trying to keep her out of control funbundle of a toddler DS quiet while she was on the phone to an insurance company.

At one point I had just changed his very pooey nappy and he wriggled past me naked, ran into the kitchen and then peed a big puddle by the fridge.

My friend was still on the phone and she sighed and said to the person at the call centre "I have just peed all over the floor" and then carried on talking about car insurance.

I actually had to point out to her that the poor cow that listened to that sentance must have quite rightly thought she was dealing with a disgusting weirdo.

Quite happy to hear she had fun on the slide, don't feel the need for another adult to pretend to write as my dd. I want to know was she settled, did she interact well with other children not 'I saw a train chooo chooo'. If it told me she said choo choo that would be interesting or just that it made her smile or something, I don't feel it is a real reflection of her day.