Phone Ringing During Nap?

[newtodaycare22]

Does anyone else have a major problem with this???

Nobody ever calls my house except during nap, I swear. Some kids are dead to the world, some wake up and go back to sleep, but some wake up and can't go back to sleep. It's so annoying. I can't take it off the hook because I'm required to have a working home line for daycare purposes.

Any ideas?

[familyschoolcare]

Can you turn the volume on the ringer down.

Also, do you have a cell phone that can count as a working phone.

[Michelle]

I have a cell and put it on vibrate

[Sunchimes]

I bury mine under the quilt that I keep on the sofa. I can still hear it, but it doesn't wake the babies. At least I do when I think of it. Too often, and always the days I forget, it wakes them up. I swear, it won't ring for a solid week, and the day I forget, someone calls.

[grandmom]

I also bury mine. Then when I answer, I whisper. They get the idea. When I aske people to call me back, I always remind them: not during nap time please. Over the years it has helped a lot.

[dave4him]

I really hate when that happens

[Christian Mother]

Yup, have that same prob. too...with my home # I have the volume down extra low and comply low to not hear at all in my bedroom where one of the kids sleeps. With my cell I have it on vibrate. If on the off chance I forget to put the volume down I pick the phone up most likely someone asking about donations and then tell them sorry my kids are sleeping and hang up.

[Blackcat31]

:::: My kids must all be deep sleepers, I vaccum during nap time! ::::

In all the years I have done this job, I have never had to limit the noise level during nap time. We just go about our business as normal and still all my kiddos sleep. (This thread just made me appreciate that much more... )

[beachgrl]

I have to have my home phone ringer turned down and put my cell on vibrate as I have had the same issues!

[Sunchimes]

You are so lucky Blackcat. When my first dck was a baby, she was that way. She slept in a pnp in the living room with the tv on. She outgrew it though. And I have one that wakes up when a gnat sneezes. And screams and screams. We tiptoe ar!

[2ndFamilyDC]

I bury mine under the quilt that I keep on the sofa. I can still hear it, but it doesn't wake the babies. At least I do when I think of it. Too often, and always the days I forget, it wakes them up. I swear, it won't ring for a solid week, and the day I forget, someone calls.

I do the same thing.....
The sound of a ringing phone is pretty loud and startling in a quiet house.

[newtodaycare22]

Hmmm..burying it-interesting concept. ) I'll have to look at the volume and consider how to cover it. Thanks guys! I can't only have a cell phone-regulations said a land line is needed (and I even have to have one corded phone, not power operated)

Thanks!