What does an average day look like in your house?

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Can just imagine that poor 3 year old come full day JK.

I am juggling 4 schedules now too and interviewing for a fifth. I start them at different times in the morning but don't let anyone go down after 9:30 or get up after 10:30.

I think one trick might be to wake your daughter an hour earlier so that she is on the same schedule as the daycare boy and then her day will be more similar as in work in age groupings. While you will still have several schedules you will have groups of kids on the same schedule. After a week of waking her it will start to become normal for her and she should start waking at that time on her own.

Given the age group you have worry less about lesson time as their lives really do revolve around food and sleep. I would say by January they should be old enough to have given up the need for morning nap maybe or at least cut it way back.

One way to feel like you are doing more is to set up some of the play as centres the older children can use themselves so some seasonal matching games or a book to look at and related felt pieces to retell the story. They will play together with each other.

For three weeks you actually have developed a schedule that works. Each week the schedule will gradually tweak itself as the sleep needs of the children changes. To push the others to get onto the same schedule you will be able to adjust the timings at even 5 minutes every few days.

The upside to your schedule is that you aren't trying to juggle two with different needs such as two babies wanting bottles at the same time. On the same schedule has it's merits for sure but not until they are more independent as in all get up to the table and have snack feeding themselves.

I think you are doing well with what you are doing given that you are dealing with some unusual situations not of your making but still making the best of it.