Question about naps

[Momof4]

Oh yes, definitely start changing your son's schedule immediately. Put him in bed 10-15 minutes earlier every couple of days in the morning in the afternoon until you get him into the 1-3 naptime routine. You will lose your mind if you don't have everyone napping at the same time so you can also have a quiet time break. You can't just expect him to changeover drastically so do it a bit at a time like that.

I would not allow individual naps here and by the way, I have not had any problems with 10 month old babies dropping their morning naps because we are so busy in the mornings. However, I have had to get them into bed by noon when they are small like that so I just nudge lunch up to 11pm and naptimes to noon for everyone. As I said, if you do it a bit at a time they don't even notice. They have no idea.

In my daycare we have breakfast at 8am, go outside at 9am so any tiny babies who still have naps can have a stroller snooze, then we come back for lunch at 11:30 and I have the children into their beds by 12:30 napping until about 2:45, then 3pm snack and freeplay until pickup times which are between 3:20 and 4:45. Then I have to do all the dishes, vacuuming, sweeping, laundry, food prep for the next day, etc.

It is a LOT of work and LONG days. You NEED the middle of the day break to survive or you will burn out. Trust me!

I would also be sending an email tonight to the parents of the 2 year old and the 10 month old starting soon to check on their naptimes and get their parents to nudge them in the direction that you are going so you have them asleep at the same time. I always get parents to do that before a child starts with me.

[godsgirl]

Thank you so much! I can definitely do that!