How much crying do you tolerate?

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I've gotten pretty good at just tuning it out. If it gets to the point of annoying the other kids then I just pop the crier into bed to give us all a break - most of the time they fall asleep which is often part of the problem. I am putting my new one down about 30-45 minutes after getting here, she naps and then is much better when she wakes up. I have the most success with my other one year old by ignoring him. When he sees me he realizes I am not mom and starts. When I get busy with the other kids and ignore him he settles to play by himself. He isn't very social at all with any of the kids which is weird cause he has two older brothers at home. I have had them cry for up to 4 months and stuck it out as long as it has dwindled to only sometimes, the child eats and sleeps well and I like the parents. Having said that I have advertised and replaced after a month of it not working and I got the feeling the parents were undoing everything I was trying to do - ie child needed a nanny for constant one on one not group care. Everyone has their own tolerance levels and mostly it comes down to how it is effecting the other children. I like that I am transitioning two right now since they can cry it out together and the other two I have are happy to go off and do their own thing.