Daily Schedule for different ages!

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You put everyone on the same schedule. There is no reason why everyone is napping at different times. You ask the parents to start putting the children on your schedule before they start care so that the transition for them isn't as bad. There is NO WAY I would being tailoring nap time schedules for individual kids. That's ridiculous, how are you suppose to do anything if there is always a kid sleeping. I have 2 nap times...1 of them is from about 8:30 - 9:30 for those who NEED a morning nap (but I start to ween that morning nap at about 12- 14 months depending on the child) and my other nap time is from about 12:30- 3. There is no napping at any other time of day here.

My outside time is after morning snack, so around 10 - 11ish. In the summer we're outside twice...morning time and then in the pm after snack until p/u...so from roughly 3:30 - 5.

All kids in my care eat at the same time and eat the same thing. Obviously some things are cut up for the little ones so they can feed themselves. I don't feed kids unless it's something like yogurt or apple sauce. Then I will feed them until about 18 months...after that they learn to use a spoon and do it themselves.

Crafts are done usually before morning snack while the morning nappers are sleeping.