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Do you other providers require parents to feed infants before drop off? I have never before because honestly most have always been since they tend to be sleeping through the night once they start. I have an infant now who still gets up early in the morning to eat, so by the time she comes here, she is soon ready to eat. Between drop offs, breakfast, and bus stop this can be stressful. Sometimes she is even dropped off screaming hungry, and it takes her a while to eat- 30 to 40 mins. Is it too much to ask them to feed her "off schedule" in the mornings?
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no...I think it's reasonable. I would just ask them to try to "top her off" before they come. You can explain that you HATE for her to wait, but that it's pretty tricky to feed her at that time of day.
That said, I have one now who at 6 months doesn't sleep through the night, and has the strangest eating patterns I"ve ever seen. If she's up at 4 (and sometimes is), there is no way she would take more milk before drop off. She just wont.
She's only here temporarily, but after 2 weeks I have her on a pretty predictible "schedule" here. Still, once she's out the door at night, it's all-over-the-place again, and she's waking up sometimes several times at night.
For some reason, she takes long naps here, too, but at home, it's 45 minutes and done. wierd eh?
I kind of wish I could keep her, but for a variety of reasons, she 's only here until the end of the month. Such a cute little tyke... -
I believe Nan requires a topper off bottle in this situation. She feeds at 9 am, so if they need to eat before then the parent must feed before drop off.
I would also require this in this type of situation. Parents definitely cannot drop off the child screaming hungry.Comment
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I do not allow hungry, screaming babies to be dropped off to me. I let parents know that they must be fed before arrival, or at least topped off so they can wait a bit.Comment
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I require ALL children no matter what age to be fed enough to last until 9:00 when we ALL eat again.Comment
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Yes and no.
I tell my parents that I don't provide breakfast because it is often difficult to serve any meal when kids are arriving and I don't have ALL my attention on the table or arriving parent/child. Plus some of my DCK's would arrive with half eaten granola bars etc that they ate on the way and would want breakfast but then not eat it.
I also had issues with my earliest arrivals wanting to eat again when my later arrivals did.
Now, I serve a meal (I call snack) at 9:00. I has ALL the components of breakfast according to the food program but I refrain from saying it is breakfast to the parents for the above reasons but claim it as breakfast with the food program.
Hope that makes sense.
Oh and my first scheduled arrival in the morning is 7:30.
My latest arrival is 8:45.Comment
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Yes, that makes perfect sense, thanks! That's a great idea and I'll keep it in mind.Yes and no.
I tell my parents that I don't provide breakfast because it is often difficult to serve any meal when kids are arriving and I don't have ALL my attention on the table or arriving parent/child. Plus some of my DCK's would arrive with half eaten granola bars etc that they ate on the way and would want breakfast but then not eat it.
I also had issues with my earliest arrivals wanting to eat again when my later arrivals did.
Now, I serve a meal (I call snack) at 9:00. I has ALL the components of breakfast according to the food program but I refrain from saying it is breakfast to the parents for the above reasons but claim it as breakfast with the food program.
Hope that makes sense.
Oh and my first scheduled arrival in the morning is 7:30.
My latest arrival is 8:45.
Sorry, OP, didn't mean to take things OT
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