Talking afternap

[Crayola kiddies]

Different rooms

[torontokids]

Maybe I need to start rethinking my daycare set up. I have them all sleeping in the playroom which is one open space. This has worked well and for the most part it does. They are only talking the last 20-30 mins of nap and it has just been this week and last week but I am trying to nip it in the bud!

To clarify, I was trying to just ignore the talking and continue to leave them for the whole nap time. I learned quickly in this job that if I ever take them out of their PNP before the end of nap time then the nap time just gets shorter and shorter for them as they know I will come for them.

My most recent approach has been to tell them to stop talking and then leaving them in their PNP until the other children are out and their diapers have been changed. I have not gone down and laid them down again while I tell them to stop. My talking had been strictly through the monitor because I did not want to risk waking up any of the other kids when I went down as they all sleep so lightly towards the end of their nap.

I had one talker who was moved up to my bedroom during nap time. This has worked really well, I just find it less than ideal e.g. if my husband is home sick or home for another reason and wants to lay down and he can't because there's a kid in there etc. I was going to move her back to the daycare now that she is sleeping so well but I don't want to mess with things especially since the others are now becoming little chatterboxes.