Scheduling around a day of naps

[Crayola kiddies]

hi ....all my daycare kids have gone home by 4:30 as that is my closing time so I would never be able to follow your schedule. what time do your parents pick up? I have never heard of a provider doing nap time from 3-5. if I have a morning napper they go down between 8 and 830 and only for 30 minutes then we do outside time at 9 till 1030 as long as the weather is good then we do lunch at 1130 and all the kids are in bed between 1215 and 1230 till 3 or 315 at the latest. then we have snack and a bit of free play while we wait for parents to start showing up at 345 and the last one leaves at about 420.
so if this was me I would start moving the 3 oclock nap time earlier by 15 mins every day till you have them going down earlier. or you might try not putting them down for a morning nap doing an 1130 lunch then to bed at 12 for the aft nap. as a parent I wouldn't want my child sleeping till 5 in the aft as I would have my child up till 9 or 10 at night .....

[daycaremom9]

I tried having 2 naps per day but it is so tough keeping the non-nappers quiet for that long. I have one nap-time at 12:00. The babies can sleep for up to 3 hours. So far it's worked for me. Personally if the baby needs more than 1 nap I just couldn't take that child.

[Spirited Sprouts]

oh the three boy are picked up at around 4

[Crayola kiddies]

oh the three boy are picked up at around 4

which is why the 12-3 nap makes the most sense.....plus the 12 month olds aren't always going to need the morning nap and your going to have to move the aft nap earlier anyway ....so you can start moving the am naps earlier by 15 mins every few days and wake them after one hour and then start moving the aft naps earlier as well.....keep shortening the am naps by 5 mins every few day and presto you have all kids going to bed at noon for 3 hours and you will have a glorious quiet afternoon break.

[Spirited Sprouts]

hahaha well one is my son so I can't really give him away lol I don't have a problem with noise the kids can sleep through it. I used to vacuum while my son was sleeping in the same room. They aren't a noisy bunch anyways.