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Who is with me on this??
I am are soooo tired of planning a preschool curriculum that the parents signed up for and the reason they send their kids here only to have to deal with these kids being so tuckered out all day monday and sometimes tuesday because the weekend happens. Late nights, early morning, no naps.
It seems like every monday and tuesday i am napping kids by 10am. Some of these kids are 4 plus years old. It really throws a wrench into our program.
I would love to send them home for unable to participate, but then I am going to have parents come back at me with are we not supposed to spend time having fun with our kids over the weekend, we don't see them all week as it is. Let's face it, I can't send every one of my kids home.
I get it, I want to have fun with my kids too, but I am that parent that even weekends, I protect my child's sleep and he still goes to bed at 730pm to730am every daY NO matter what we are doing.... If I know we are going to have a late night, I will have my child nap day of and day after. No time for losing sleep, my child is 7 and has to be mentally ready to go Monday morning and the rest of the week. Not to mention I don't deal with melt downs and when we miss sleep, that's what we have. we do don't have melt downs, mommy don't deal with those......
How can we find a happy medium where parents can still have fun on the weekends with their family/ kids and I don't feel Like I am trying to control and dictate nap your child, don't keep them up all night long because I am the one who has to deal with them come monday/ tuesday. If I were to call a parent to pick up every time they were too tired to participate, I would need to close down.
Let's face it, parents try to do too much these days. HOckey, soccer, baseball, dancing, swimming, birthday parties and so on. If it's not my dck in these functions it's their sibling that plays, so the dck is getting dragged to all of the events and all I hear is how horrible the dcks behavior is day in and day out. Here I get their behavior eventually under wraps.........
I think what the parents don't get is that when their kids miss those naps they think they don't need and keep them up late, or wake up early, the kids will eventually need to make up all that missed sleep. Then we start this downward spiral of the kids coming here, horrific behavior, falling asleep before nap time or even more needing to nap for 3-4 hours becuase they are not going to bed at night at a decent hour.
I have some dcks that fall into this never ending cycle of needing to sleep each day when here for 3+ hours, then the parents say that they are not going to bed until 11pm, even later. I can't with hold sleep, I do try to wake them up, some get up, some don't. The parents blame naps at daycare as the reason why their kids are not napping. I am sooooooo over this.
These parents need to understand, your child is not going to bed at night, 1 because you have no routine, 2 you don't make them, 3 yes, it could be taht they are sleeping way too much when they are here, but when are they supposed to catch up on all that missed sleep from YOU keeping them up late, not napping over the weekend and just not paying attention to how sleep deprived your children are...
UGHHHHH OK vent over....can anyone else share my pain...Oh and thank you if you made it this far. Also, if you have any advice on how I can remedy this issue I am having of the never exhausted children, I would love to hear it..
Thanks everyone!!!!
I am are soooo tired of planning a preschool curriculum that the parents signed up for and the reason they send their kids here only to have to deal with these kids being so tuckered out all day monday and sometimes tuesday because the weekend happens. Late nights, early morning, no naps.
It seems like every monday and tuesday i am napping kids by 10am. Some of these kids are 4 plus years old. It really throws a wrench into our program.
I would love to send them home for unable to participate, but then I am going to have parents come back at me with are we not supposed to spend time having fun with our kids over the weekend, we don't see them all week as it is. Let's face it, I can't send every one of my kids home.
I get it, I want to have fun with my kids too, but I am that parent that even weekends, I protect my child's sleep and he still goes to bed at 730pm to730am every daY NO matter what we are doing.... If I know we are going to have a late night, I will have my child nap day of and day after. No time for losing sleep, my child is 7 and has to be mentally ready to go Monday morning and the rest of the week. Not to mention I don't deal with melt downs and when we miss sleep, that's what we have. we do don't have melt downs, mommy don't deal with those......
How can we find a happy medium where parents can still have fun on the weekends with their family/ kids and I don't feel Like I am trying to control and dictate nap your child, don't keep them up all night long because I am the one who has to deal with them come monday/ tuesday. If I were to call a parent to pick up every time they were too tired to participate, I would need to close down.
Let's face it, parents try to do too much these days. HOckey, soccer, baseball, dancing, swimming, birthday parties and so on. If it's not my dck in these functions it's their sibling that plays, so the dck is getting dragged to all of the events and all I hear is how horrible the dcks behavior is day in and day out. Here I get their behavior eventually under wraps.........
I think what the parents don't get is that when their kids miss those naps they think they don't need and keep them up late, or wake up early, the kids will eventually need to make up all that missed sleep. Then we start this downward spiral of the kids coming here, horrific behavior, falling asleep before nap time or even more needing to nap for 3-4 hours becuase they are not going to bed at night at a decent hour.
I have some dcks that fall into this never ending cycle of needing to sleep each day when here for 3+ hours, then the parents say that they are not going to bed until 11pm, even later. I can't with hold sleep, I do try to wake them up, some get up, some don't. The parents blame naps at daycare as the reason why their kids are not napping. I am sooooooo over this.
These parents need to understand, your child is not going to bed at night, 1 because you have no routine, 2 you don't make them, 3 yes, it could be taht they are sleeping way too much when they are here, but when are they supposed to catch up on all that missed sleep from YOU keeping them up late, not napping over the weekend and just not paying attention to how sleep deprived your children are...
UGHHHHH OK vent over....can anyone else share my pain...Oh and thank you if you made it this far. Also, if you have any advice on how I can remedy this issue I am having of the never exhausted children, I would love to hear it..
Thanks everyone!!!!
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