A Little Fed Up This Morning

[mommyneedsadayoff]

8:30 is not an early bedtime for a 2.5 year old. Yes, I agree that this is a discipline issue, but I wouldn't expect the parents to keep her up until 9pm.

Kelly

I was referring to a later post that said they want her to pass out at 7:30/8 like the other child and I was simply suggesting that they spend an extra hour with her because in my experience, parents rush home to make dinner, bath, bedtime asap. If 8:30 works for them, that is great. My daughter is 2.5 and is in bed at 8:30 every night, except summer, when it closer to 9. Whatever works, but regardless of what time, if they don't enforce bedtime, she will continue doing what she is doing.

[KIDZRMYBIZ]

Maybe instead of trying to put her to bed at 7:30/8 like their other child, they could use that extra hour or so to have one on one quality time with her instead. Then put her to bed at 9 and actually enforce bedtime.

This is what we did with our own children. It was natural as they went from 18mo to 2yo to 3yo to 4yo that their bedtime got a little later as they aged because their nap was the same 2 hours. My younger 2 LOVED that undivided attention each one got from Mommy and Daddy during those times, and we loved giving it to them.

I guess this predicament boils down to more self-absorbed parents that just cannot get enough time AWAY from the children they spawned.

[KIDZRMYBIZ]

Update

Well, everything is just Jim Dandy for DCG and bedtime now.

I asked about it yesterday at pick-up since I'm now getting DCG up from nap 15 minutes before everyone else (not), and DCM says that it has made a world of difference. Now they just need to work on being sassy.

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[KidGrind]

they observed all of this from the baby monitor and did nothing about it.........

Imho, this is a parent issue, not a daycare issue.

exactly!

[Heidi]

Well, everything is just Jim Dandy for DCG and bedtime now.

I asked about it yesterday at pick-up since I'm now getting DCG up from nap 15 minutes before everyone else (not), and DCM says that it has made a world of difference. Now they just need to work on being sassy.

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[Unregistered]

Wow

Its shocking to me that providers lie to parents about what they are doing with the child. It's absolutely unacceptable. It is just unreal to me that you would lie about what you do with another person's child. And family childcare providers wonder why no one trusts them alone with children. Wow. Not just unprofessional, unethical. And this gives all family childcare providers a bad name.

[KiddieCahoots]

Its shocking to me that providers lie to parents about what they are doing with the child. It's absolutely unacceptable. It is just unreal to me that you would lie about what you do with another person's child. And family childcare providers wonder why no one trusts them alone with children. Wow. Not just unprofessional, unethical. And this gives all family childcare providers a bad name.

Did you read the part where everything is "Jim Dandy" by the parents now too? It seems to be a two way street on this issue, meaning the parents are not being truthful either or are in denial. Leaving the provider to deal with the situation the best way possible to keep the parents happy, on getting the child to sleep better at night, that only the parents can change, or term. I'd say she's doing a great job! Especially if the parents are happy that their little one is now finally sleeping throughout the night!?
And this can and does happen everywhere with parents that pass the buck on raising their own children...centers, preschools, schools, and in home families.