I serve breakfast at 8:30 then we go outside or start our morning activities at 9am. Really I'm moving the time of morning snack. I serve lunch at 11:30 so I want the meals to be approximately 3 hours apart, then afternoon snack is right after naptime, at about 3pm.

I encourage parents to get their child to feed themself small chunks of food before starting daycare. Even a 10 month old child is capable of learning to do this. Parents have to realize that we have a very busy job taking care of 5 or more children if you have your own children in care as well so we need babies to come into care "daycare-ready". Part of that process is for the parent to have their child on our nap/meal/play schedule and able to eat the foods that are served at mealtime.