She doesn't get it

[Suzie_Homemaker]

I don't really have any suggestions

I nap all mine in the same room and all I do is place them in playpen/cot, cover them up, say goodnight, turn on white noise machine and leave. They are sleeping by the time I get upstairs and turn the monitor on!! However...the youngest (19 month-ish) will sometimes wake up 30-60 minutes before the rest of them. She too is a singer and a chatter!! I speak over the monitor and tell her to lie down. She usually listens but I can still hear her chatting sometimes lol. She will usually fall back asleep. If she doesn't and it's getting too disruptive for the others, I go get her.

It's only occasional with her but in the past if I've had a noisy napper, I put them in a playpen in my dc kitchen. I have to keep the playpen in my adjoining laundry room which is kinda in the way but I'd rather do this than have their naps disrupted.

This is more like I do. If child fully awake, then I just get them up. As long as they had a nap, no big deal. I know some people here say they like their 2.5-3 hour break but surely that not an outright expectation? Little children not expected to be quite for so long to give provider a break? It quite the break ! Holy, can't think of one other carer or self-employed role where 3 hour break daily expected whilst still being paid.

Sometime we get decent break and sometimes not. It way things go looking- after people who dependent on us. Old people, young people, not always reasonable to expect break is uninterrupted, going to happen every day, a given right.