Mat’s Report Card

Mat got his report card last week too.  Just because he just mastered walking and doesn’t really speak words right now doesn’t mean that the daycare won’t evaluate him.

His report card was just as I expected.  His teachers like him.  He is a loving child that isn’t destructive or rambunctious.  He likes to look at books and play with balls.  But his teachers noted two big areas of improvement.

1.  They would like him to speak more.  Right now the only word he says is baba.  But in his defense, his baba (bottle) is the most important thing to him.  He loves his baba more than anything else out there.  If he wants or needs something else, he just yells at you in baby babble until you can figure out what he needs.  If you ask me, he has it pretty good.  But hey, these are the professionals so I will work on getting him to articulate is 16 month old self better.  O_0
2. They also want him to interact more with the other kids.  They say that he interacts very well with the teachers and that he is very receptive to them but they want him to play with the other kids.  Now it should be noted that with the exception of DJ Cheesy, none of the other kids can walk yet, nor can they really speak yet.  They just sit where they are placed and do their own thing.  And by their own thing I mean, they sit where they are plopped down and usually just sit there looking around, sometimes crying and occasionally falling over.  I am not sure what exactly Mat’s teachers want him to do or how he is supposed to interact with the other kids but they suggested that the interaction would be beneficial for him.  So I am going to encourage him to “play” with the other children. 

If Mat was older, I would have pointed all this out at the parent / teacher conference because really, you can’t force a child to socialize, they will when they’re ready.  But that’s just my thinking though.  Since Mat is just in the infant room, I don’t get a parent / teacher conference, which I think the teachers do on purpose.  This way they can make suggestions and evaluate without any real repercussions.  I can always bring up my concerns to the teacher when I drop Mat off but I am not too concerned.  Mat is surrounded by older kids and adults when he is at home and because of that, that’s who he feels most comfortable with.

I’m not going to stress over his report card,

Too much,

Yet.