4 yrs old Meal Time Issue

[playfelt]

One of the big things to get around the connection between reward and dessert is to simply say the child ran out of time. That is what happens at my daycare and kids learn to talk less and eat faster too. After a reasonable amount of time and we are talking lunch taking an hour from come sit to wash and go so plenty of time is allowed and as they finish totally they go take off their shoes for nap and are allowed to watch tv - totally works as an incentive to eat faster too. Then I call them one at a time for potty/diaper, tuck in the little ones that go upstairs to playpens and then send the rest to their nap mats - love that the kids shows are often only 15 minutes long so I can wait till the end of the show. It's just what works here and makes for a smooth transition.

[carla]

i am sorry you think i am coming off with attidute but in no way do i mean to be. i am just stating what we do in our daycare. If you work in a daycare in alberta and you are accredited you have standards to keep in order to keep your accreitation. So not only do we have licencing standards we also have accred standards to do. and in the toddler room we have 12 kids and 2 staff so we have just as many kids as a dayhome if you do the ratio. once again i am sorry you think i am coming off with attitude. I did not relize this forum was only for dayhomes as it is daycare bear and sometimes the easiest road is not the best road. we had a very hard time when accred came in and required us to let the children self serve but with months of practise the children can now do it.