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Do you think it's appropriate to ask parents on days where their kids come later to not let their kids sleep in too late? I have one mom that comes between 10 and 11 one time per week and usually she lets her child sleep in but then her child does not nap. I have two babies who are light sleepers and so when she doesn't nap they wake up and then soon everyone is up and cranky in the afternoon. It makes for a horrible day. I want to ask mom to not let her child sleep in too late. Ok or no?
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I don't, but it is really disruptive and really annoying. -
You can reminder her in your program children under a certain age will have quiet time between 10-11 am, and a fussy/awake baby could disrupt nap time for the others which messes up everyones schedule (which I'm sure you went over the schedule in the interview).
Sleeping in too late when they are already sleeping for about 6-8 hours probably isn't good for an infant because they have not developed bladder/bowle control yet and they may wake up with an over filled diaper and diaper rash from their waste- and possibly bed sores in younger babies if they cannot roll over yet.Comment
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This child is two, so he's not a baby but he wakes my two babies up when he doesn't nap. I did tell mom he will still have "quiet time" and I had to move his crib into the other room because he has taken to screaming on those days or singing really LOUD. Eventually he wakes the babies, then everyone is up. Sigh. He knows if he is loud eventually everyone will be up and then he can play.Comment
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I have the same problem on occasion. It is soooo frustrating. I don't feel comfortable saying anything to the parents outright though. I write daily reports and may put that so and so had a difficult rest time today and in turn woke up the other children.
I guess I hope that they will have some compassion for their child because they still have to lay down and have rest time whether they slept in or not, and that makes for a miserable time for them and me. If it happened very often I'm afraid that I may have to come outright and ask if dcp knows why their child isn't sleeping. If they say because they sleep late, I may have to inform them that this is a problem for my program.
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yes I think it is okay to address this with mom. let her know that her child must be able to nap or rest quietly during nap time. either she can wake him up and have him ready to nap on your schedule on daycare days OR she can come back and get him before the other kids nap OR she can bring him after nap time. this basically puts the problem back on her. but i wouldnt say this unless the problem is big enough to where you would rather term than let the issue continue (because plenty of parents will term if you enforce nap rules). i have talked to parents abou this before. its not fair to let the kids sleep in and then bring them in time to disrupt the rest of the kids....same thing with any other disruptive behavior that needs to be addressed. you can also put some really loud white noise in each room for the kids. keeps the sleepers from hearing the screamer and keeps the screamer from listening to who is up and trying to hear a reaction from the noise. loud fans work or you can get CDs with white noise. Toys R Us had one with a washer/dryer as well as other sounds and thats the one i use.Comment
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I would just establish a cut off time for drop off. Put it in your policies that cut off time is 9am or whatever works for you. if after that time they are not there, they will be marked absent and turned away at the door. Any center my sons ever went to did not allow drop offs after 9am.Comment
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I do think it's inappropriate to try to suggest the way parents spend the time they have with their children. Maybe it's just me but, what they do on their own time is their business. I wouldn't want that to be suggested with my kids when they were in someone else's care. Creating a max drop off time is a good idea to curb this problem though!Comment
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I don't say anything, because I don't want the parents to tell me to keep their kids up from nap because it disrupts their own sleep.
So, I figure, if they can't tell me to wake kids up early, I can't tell them to.Comment
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Like most already said...you need a cut off time mine is 9:00am...and I have actually told a parent she will need to have her kid up no later than 8:00am and fed breakfast by 8:30. This is because she would be dropping off at 10:40ish...we lunch eat at 11:40 if I did not say something. She would have let him sleep right in til 10:00 and he would have eaten on the ride over.
My House My rules...just because mom is off doesn't mean the kid schedule should be jacked up... especially when mom's not keeping him home for one on one time.Comment
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yeah i think that is the point here. mom is letting kid sleep on "her time" and then leaving him all riled up and off schedule for the provider. that is not cool for the provider, the kid or the other kids. pretty convenient for mom though. thats why the provider needs to put all the problems that come with keeping kid on a random schedule back on the mom, where it belongs!Comment
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cut off time is best. what makes you think that she would wake the child up to make YOUR life easier?Comment
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Drop off cut off is the way to go. The child misses programming and disrupts your routine.Comment
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