MORE nap questions-need advice.

[Inspired by Reggio]

Yup I hear ya ~ I admit to resisting for the longest time as well trying to make it work ... I worked for eons in centres myself so know it can be done for sure ~ I just did not have the patience to 'break them in' after months of trying cause unlike in centre care they do not have 'mixed age groupings' at different stages of that 'reasoning' level around sleep so it was easier in the centre cause either you had multiple staff to help the infants 'get to sleep' or everyone was 'old enough' to learn to just rest through the newbie they did not all start crying when someone else did anymore and well what was MOST important to remember is that in centre care I got my lunch break regardless of if all the kids were 'screaming' in the sleep room trying to 'learn to self sooth' and go to sleep

For me my challenge was I would just get the group doing 'well' and someone would be graduating out and another newbie would start ~ cause sadly childcare has turnover one us

For me since the option to separate was there it was a small price to pay for a REAL BREAK in the day to have to store some cots in an upstairs closet and have the one pack and play up ... now I get an hour of break time and at least another of 'prep' time for the program plus some days even more time of 'whatever'!