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What to include in a daily report parents will actually read
Meals, naps, diapers, one photo, and one sentence about the child’s day. Everything else is noise.
Parents open a daily report for two reasons: to know their child was cared for, and to have something to talk about at dinner. Design the report around those two jobs.
The five things that matter
- Meals — what was offered and roughly how much was eaten.
- Naps — start and end time.
- Diapers or potty — count and anything unusual.
- One photo — a real moment, not a posed one.
- One sentence — something specific to this child today.
What to leave out
Long narrative summaries, weather, and generic “had a great day!” lines lower the value of everything around them. If a report takes more than ninety seconds to log, it will stop getting logged.
Do this in My Childcare App
Daily logs & photos