Nap/Quiet Time

[BentleysBands]

infants 8-930a and again 1230-2 or so

everyone else 1230-3p

but i have 1 dcg that naps from 230-445

[DancingQueen]

AM nap 9-10

afternoon nap for everyone 12:10 - 2:10
I have to drop my dd off at preschool at 12 and pick her up at 2:30 otherwise I'd let nap time go until they woke up which has been as late as 2:50 on occasion.

[SimpleMom]

Infants are on their own schedules. I have one that sleeps around 8:30-9/1-2:30 and one that sleeps around 10-10:30/2-3:00.

1-4yr olds have rest/nap time from 1/1:30-3/3:30 and older kids rest for 20-30 minutes and have the option to play quiet activities until the other youngsters get up.

[daysofelijah]

1-3, but if they're all still asleep I'll let them sleep until 3:20-3:30ish.

[countrymom]

Usually 1/1:30 - 3/3:30, and I too have a great sleeper who will sleep until 4-4:30!

those are my hours too.

[MARSTELAC]

I have kids being dropped off and picked up between 10:50 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. We do lunch around 11:15-noon then some leave for pre-K. I start getting kids ready for nap as soon as the pre-K's are out the door. Only my under pre-K aged kids nap, they all nap in the same room and they are all up and diapered by 2:30. A few days a week during the school year I will have a few pre-K kids that don't nap (they would but parents insist that they are not allowed) so they have quiet time in my front room (tv, books, quiet games). I HATE IT! I think anyone under Kindergarten age should be napping at least for 1/2 hour. I want to make this part of my contract but don't know how because I have some just 4 year olds that the parents want me to stop giving them a nap...those kids are not going to Kindergarten until fall of 2012~ nap time is the only time I can seem to catch a break, plus I am SURE these kids still need to nap!....any suggestions?

[Blackcat31]

I have kids being dropped off and picked up between 10:50 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. We do lunch around 11:15-noon then some leave for pre-K. I start getting kids ready for nap as soon as the pre-K's are out the door. Only my under pre-K aged kids nap, they all nap in the same room and they are all up and diapered by 2:30. A few days a week during the school year I will have a few pre-K kids that don't nap (they would but parents insist that they are not allowed) so they have quiet time in my front room (tv, books, quiet games). I HATE IT! I think anyone under Kindergarten age should be napping at least for 1/2 hour. I want to make this part of my contract but don't know how because I have some just 4 year olds that the parents want me to stop giving them a nap...those kids are not going to Kindergarten until fall of 2012~ nap time is the only time I can seem to catch a break, plus I am SURE these kids still need to nap!....any suggestions?

I would stop calling it nap time and start calling it quiet time. I would say that all children must have quiet time. Meaning they don't have to sleep but have to lay down and have quiet time. Put some soothing music on or play a book on CD for them to listen to. I tell all my parents that EVERYONE has quiet time, because I need them to so I can prepare for the rest of the day and do whatever paperwork that needs to get done from the morning. We try not to say "nap time" here because the older preschoolers all act offended so I try to say "quiet time". If the parents who do not want their child to sleep then you can tell them they aren't required to.....but they do have to lay and listen quietly until quiet time is over. I buy lots of books on CD through Scholastic. I put then transfer several books onto one CD so that the stories play continuously until I am ready for everyone to get up. The kids that really don't fall asleep love listening to them and the ones who listen and then can't help fall asleep must have needed the sleep so.......

[momma2girls]

I would stop calling it nap time and start calling it quiet time. I would say that all children must have quiet time. Meaning they don't have to sleep but have to lay down and have quiet time. Put some soothing music on or play a book on CD for them to listen to. I tell all my parents that EVERYONE has quiet time, because I need them to so I can prepare for the rest of the day and do whatever paperwork that needs to get done from the morning. We try not to say "nap time" here because the older preschoolers all act offended so I try to say "quiet time". If the parents who do not want their child to sleep then you can tell them they aren't required to.....but they do have to lay and listen quietly until quiet time is over. I buy lots of books on CD through Scholastic. I put then transfer several books onto one CD so that the stories play continuously until I am ready for everyone to get up. The kids that really don't fall asleep love listening to them and the ones who listen and then can't help fall asleep must have needed the sleep so.......

I say the same thing!! It is quiet time, and everyone has to lay down, and stay quiet, while everyone else sleeps.

[DanceMom]

Our nap time is 12:30 - 2:30

I do have one parent that only wants her child to sleep one hour per day so she can get her to bed early - I told her I would wake her but not allow her to get up from her cot - will give her books to read.

[SandeeAR]

Three of mine are babies, so that varies some, but most days.... Morning 830/9:00- 10:00/10:30. Afternoon 1:30 till 3 or whenever they wake up. Most times I can get all of them, even the babies down in the afternoon.

[momma2girls]

Mine is from 1:00-3:30, I wake everyone up at 3:30 for snacktime.

[Unregistered]

11:30-1:30 (2 hours)