I care for 6 children. Ages 18 month - 4 years. All of the kids nap from 1:00 - 3:30. I usually have to wake all children when I get them up. Some take 5 minutes and others take 30 minutes to fall asleep.
Well, one of the kids, who is almost 3 is now having trouble sleeping thru the night and keeps waking up saying he wants to get up and go watch TV. So his Mom wants me to cut out or down his nap. "On the weekends they don't nap him and he sleeps just fine thru the night." Come Monday, he is a grumpy, whiney, mess and is yawning all day long. I have been monitoring his naps and he is falling asleep around 1:30 and waking at 3ish.
I have 2 - 4 year olds that nap the same time and both sleep thru the night. Do you think this is a new found independence that he is experiencing and trying to exert overnight or is it the Nap?
What to say to the Mom? I know Centers require even the Pre-K kids to have quiet time for 1.5 hours.
Well, one of the kids, who is almost 3 is now having trouble sleeping thru the night and keeps waking up saying he wants to get up and go watch TV. So his Mom wants me to cut out or down his nap. "On the weekends they don't nap him and he sleeps just fine thru the night." Come Monday, he is a grumpy, whiney, mess and is yawning all day long. I have been monitoring his naps and he is falling asleep around 1:30 and waking at 3ish.
I have 2 - 4 year olds that nap the same time and both sleep thru the night. Do you think this is a new found independence that he is experiencing and trying to exert overnight or is it the Nap?
What to say to the Mom? I know Centers require even the Pre-K kids to have quiet time for 1.5 hours.
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