Teachers & operationsSeptember 21, 2026 · 7 min read

Daily sheets vs moments: what infant and toddler parents actually read

The daily sheet answers ‘is she fed and rested?’ The moment answers ‘is she happy?’ Parents need both, and confuse neither.

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Two jobs

Operational log: naps, bottles, meals, nappies, medication. Necessary; regulated in many places; read for facts.
Emotional evidence: a photo of the child content and absorbed. Read for reassurance; remembered; forwarded.

Running both without doubling work

1Keep the log as ticks and times in your management system. No prose.
2Replace the ‘today she…’ paragraph with one photo in a moments feed, tagged with the activity.
3Time the moment before 10:30 for infants and toddlers.
4Tell parents the split at intake: ‘facts here, faces there.’

What happens to the daily sheet

Some centres keep it, slimmer. Some drop the written highlights entirely after a term because the moments feed does that job. Licensing rules decide the floor; parents decide the rest. Our daycare page explains how Oyku sits beside your log.

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Quick answers

Questions this article answers

Do parents read daily sheets?

They scan them for facts — naps, meals — and rarely read the prose. A photo of the child does the emotional job the prose was attempting, in a fraction of the teacher's time.

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