Spixie33
11-02-2011, 11:31 AM
Did anyone read the October issue of Today's Parent? Page 57 Sick day Stategies was interesting. It basically had a couple of parents who admitted medicating their kids and sending them to daycare just so they could get to work. It also said that a study in the US journal or Pediatrics fount that 57% of sick children were sent home from childcare unnecessarily.
And then Page 107 the article is called "Nixing the Nap" which panics me because it basically seems to say that even some 2 year olds are ready to stop napping.
"If it's been half an hour and he's still not sleeping, he is done (with napping)" says Manisha Witmans of Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton. "if children really are tired, they will fall asleep."
Well....I have a dck who usually takes about 30 minutes of talking to himself and playing before he falls asleep. I don't get why half an hour is some sort of indicator.
And then another little blurb says "While most children can adapty to napping at daycare and not at home, it's important to provide some predictability. "If routines are changing every day, the child will give you signals," Granic says. 'If she's tired, cranky and hyper, that's something you're doing wrong." However, if that daycare snooze leaves her lying awake at night, ask about shortening the nap or substituting quiet time."
So......we as providers should potentially substitute quiet time because the child stays awake a long time at night at their own home? I do have a parent who has told me that their child goes to sleep at 9 or 10 every night but this child goes to sleep really fast here at nap time and usually needs to be woken up again at around 2:30 as not to oversleep the 3 pm nap cutoff. The child seems tired...especially in the mornings when the dck arrives and goes through the morning and before nap. The DCK seems tired and wants to sleep and falls asleep here every day without issue so how would I substitute quiet time? Even if I gave her a basket of books and an etch and sketch like the article suggests --they will still doze off because they are tired.
I think this magazine is not necessarily seeing the big picture on some of these articles
And then Page 107 the article is called "Nixing the Nap" which panics me because it basically seems to say that even some 2 year olds are ready to stop napping.
"If it's been half an hour and he's still not sleeping, he is done (with napping)" says Manisha Witmans of Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton. "if children really are tired, they will fall asleep."
Well....I have a dck who usually takes about 30 minutes of talking to himself and playing before he falls asleep. I don't get why half an hour is some sort of indicator.
And then another little blurb says "While most children can adapty to napping at daycare and not at home, it's important to provide some predictability. "If routines are changing every day, the child will give you signals," Granic says. 'If she's tired, cranky and hyper, that's something you're doing wrong." However, if that daycare snooze leaves her lying awake at night, ask about shortening the nap or substituting quiet time."
So......we as providers should potentially substitute quiet time because the child stays awake a long time at night at their own home? I do have a parent who has told me that their child goes to sleep at 9 or 10 every night but this child goes to sleep really fast here at nap time and usually needs to be woken up again at around 2:30 as not to oversleep the 3 pm nap cutoff. The child seems tired...especially in the mornings when the dck arrives and goes through the morning and before nap. The DCK seems tired and wants to sleep and falls asleep here every day without issue so how would I substitute quiet time? Even if I gave her a basket of books and an etch and sketch like the article suggests --they will still doze off because they are tired.
I think this magazine is not necessarily seeing the big picture on some of these articles