Tadpoles Parent for Pc

I love the convenience of this app for daily checkin (we used to manually fill this info out on a sheet of paper at drop off) and ability to keep all my kids daily records in one place (gives me the ability to go back and check sleep habits of my infant etc). HOWEVER it’s buggy and doesn’t always update properly. I usually can close the app and reopen, but this doesn’t always fix the problem. Ideas for future updates-I would love the “food provided” section to be more user friendly (allow me to select multiple food items at a time or store meals that I often send together. Also I’d like to indicate which meal the food is intended for- for example I’d like yogurt served at “lunch” or as a “snack”. Right now teachers don’t know what food should be served when and just have to guess. Also it would be great if teachers could add reminders to the app that “pop up” for parents when filling out info for the next school day. For example when we are asked to bring in more wipes, that message appears on the daily report, but might be missed or forgotten by tomorrow. I’d like the previous day’s teacher notes to pop up the next day while filling out that days drop of notes. Maybe even with a check box to indicate it was completed. Hope that makes sense!

If I could give 0 stars I would! My child was at another daycare that used another app & I loved it so much that when I had to change daycares I made sure they had an app but this one looks the same but I don’t get real time notifications like the other one did. Not knowing how my child is doing throughout the day when I have known constantly every diaper change, feeding, how long the nap was & got to view photos & videos throughout the day of the activities that they all did as a class put me at ease. This instead does nothing for me. It’s useless. I don’t know if any of the information is true or if the teacher just quickly added in the details before the daily report was sent out. Which in the end is making me want to just change daycares completely because I need this reassurance throughout the day. Not just one notification that I dropped off my own child! This is completely pointless & useless!

It would be more helpful if I could choose an alternate view of my baby’s schedule. As is, I see all diapers in one section, all meals in one, and all naps in another. To make the most sense of the info, I’d like to be able to see it in chronological order so I don’t have to piece it together. That would be helpful in trying to figure out, for example, why she didn’t eat for 3 hours and then look to the other sections to ascertain that she was napping, etc. Also can be a wee glitchy and the swiping of pics generally doesn’t work. And it takes a long time for the reports to load/refresh. Would like a way to communicate with the teachers real time. As is, we have to text outside of the app if we have questions for one another.

This app is so unbelievably basic and has very few features. It’s nice that we can get picture and video updates throughout the day, but it would be really great to get real time updates of meals, diapers/potty, and sleep. As a parent you want to know how your child is doing with these things throughout the day. It’s very frustrating that you don’t get a full report of these things until the teacher signs them out at the end of the day. I often don’t know how my child ate until late at night after she has been home for a few hours. Pick up can be very hectic and you can’t get all the updates on your child with everything going on. Please. Please. Pleaseeee have real time updates for all aspects of the app.