California Nap Time Laws

[hwichlaz]

So are these suggestions or proposals or are they changes that ARE/WILL be occurring?

An Infant Sleep Plan? ....updating and keeping that written document current could be a full tie job

"No infant shall be forced to sleep".... :confused: ::

The wording is somewhat alarming from a provider standpoint. I can see parents taking some of the statements and interpreting them in VASTLY different ways.

Proposed changes that we only have until the 19th to contest, that we were supposed to have provider feedback meetings for. The meetings were cancelled in many communities because of wild fire. They want commenting to end on Sept 19th, and to implement the new regulations on October 1st. This doesn’t feel like they really want to make any adjustments in that time period.

[Unregistered]

Personal Rights- nap time

I worked in CA childcare for years. Waking a sleeping child is considered a violation of personal rights (a form parents sign upon enrolling and required for Licensing). To get around this I would have parents write a permission letter stating that they request and give permission to wake the child after a certain period of time or at a certain time. Naptime is run this way and childcare centers try to keep kids laying down for 2 to 2.5 hours so the teachers can take lunch breaks without the center requiring another staff person in the room. Staffing for ratio for 10 to 12 hours is tough and costly. The only time the teachers are given to plan prep or clean up is naptime. So all teachers strive for a hassle free naptime so they can get stuff done and take lunch breaks. If you have bedtime issues, i would write a note requesting your child is woken up by 2 or 230. Licensing nor the center can't argue with parent requests and permission, but they will state that naptime is required for healthy children....not to mention mentally healthy teachers!

[MarinaVanessa]

They hid it...

http://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Saf...-30-142717-390

Yep that looks similar to the list that I have except the one in the link is on official letterhead. Mine was just a list with no letterhead. Probably just the FCC parts without the CCC parts. And it looks like some things are a little different.

[MarinaVanessa]

An Infant Sleep Plan? ....updating and keeping that written document current could be a full tie job

It's actually not that big of a deal. On paper it sounds horrible. The sleep plan is just a form where you write down stuff about when and where the baby will sleep and then the parents sign it. In the "when" section you can just write "on demand". There is a spot where they want us to mark if the infant rolls over on their own or not apparently so that if the baby is not rolling over yet the provider doesn't put the baby to sleep on it's tummy. The provider can't fib it since a parent signature is needed. This is just a one time form thing.

The record part is not much different than what some providers already do for infants here. It's just like a paper where you report how many oz of milk they drank and at what times, how many diapers you changed and when, what times they napped at when they woke up etc. A lot of people already do that here until they turn 1. The only difference will be whether licensing will require us to use a form they provide or whether they will just let us make and use our own. That is still yet to be seen.

This is the draft of the infant sleep plan if they decide to make us use their form.

http://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Regs/Form%20LIC%209227.pdf?ver=2018-08-06-154350-447

[hwichlaz]

No, even when they've rolled over we're still supposed to put them down on their back. They just don't want us to be able to fib if they show up and a baby is on it's tummy. The record keeping part, is well.....part of why I won't be taking infants anymore. It's one thing to do it as a service, another if it's required. I mean really....what does it prove other than I took a min to write down a number of some kind?

Without seeing the final draft I'm concerned we'll have to write down every 15 min check, and keep records like a nurse.

[Cat Herder]

No, even when they've rolled over we're still supposed to put them down on their back. They just don't want us to be able to fib if they show up and a baby is on it's tummy.

Here they have us label the child's individual crib the same way we have to do for allergies, with "special consideration to confidentiality" ::. (IE, cow sticker for milk, peanut stickers, etc.)

Most use dolphin stickers, for "flippers". I like to use the upside down monkey stickers to get the inspectors to ask what it references.

I guess they don't want parents comparing babies development and passing judgment.

[hwichlaz]

Here they have us label the child's individual crib the same way we have to do for allergies, with "special consideration to confidentiality" ::. (IE, cow sticker for milk, peanut stickers, etc.)

Most use dolphin stickers, for "flippers". I like to use the upside down monkey stickers to get the inspectors to ask what it references.

I guess they don't want parents comparing babies development and passing judgment.

That's cute, . My parents never make it in to the cribs. And I can't remember the last time I had two in cribs at the same time anyway.

The labeled bottle thing cracks me up too. They are MY bottles. All of them. And I prepare them as needed. I also, generally only have one child on a bottle at once. Though right now I have a nearly 3yo sn kiddo still on bottles. She gets the Y cut nipples because her formula is so fortified that it's like sludge.

[Unregistered]

preschool starts at 2 years old, they are not infants

This seems to be for infants, not toddlers. preschool starts at 2 years old.