Crazy Thing DCM Said To Me

[cheerfuldom]

A DCM told me that it takes up to 3 hours to get their one year old down for bed at night. holy cow! I have three kids and at her rate, i would be spending a third of my day just getting kids to sleep, ha ha! I put the baby down here and thats that and she goes to sleep. At home they go get her, let her play, try to put her down, go get her, take a bath, put her down, get her up, feed again, put her down. They are spending all evening trying to get her to sleep!!!

they also asked today how I get her to eat from a bottle. i was confused by the question and said "I just lay her down and give her the bottle and thats it". I dont know what they are doing at home.......

[wdmmom]

Clearly not giving her a bottle and letting her sleep.

Almost sounds like the parents are bent that their child spends more time with you so they need to have the interaction.

Any other parent I know would put them to bed when it's bedtime and walk away.

[Zoe]

When I was interviewing my second shift dcm, she said the same thing! 3 hours to get her to bed! I know it was a red flag, but I'm strict about bedtime and proper behavior and the children who rule the roost at home are sometimes my best behaved daycare kids! So I took her on and while the first two weeks were difficult putting her to bed (she cried if I wasn't in the room), all I had to do was sit there for five minutes and she was out!

Now I don't even have to do that! I say bedtime, she lays down, I close the door. Good to go! Not so hard now was it?!?

I don't get how people let their kids do that to them. I really don't.

[cheerfuldom]

I don't get it either. It's 15 minute routine for each of our kids and one is a 6 month old. There is no negotiating for bedtime, at least not from mama. Dad is a little softer but even he can do it within 30 minutes. I have no idea what these people are thinking.

[grandmom]

One of my parents do that same routine to get the kid to eat. Eat, play, eat, dance, eat, read a book. She's shocked to see her kid eating at a table, in a chair. I said: it only takes twice. When they are messing around, or getting down and not eating, I just put their food away. The first time is more shock (not quite the right word, but you know what I mean). The second time they figure out that I mean business.

My sadness is this. What will it be like when the kids is 12 or 14?