I have had a new little boy who started first week of July, he is 14 months, in the beginning he cried very much and gave me a hard time to fall asleep, but he was napping on average an hour and a half, sometimes less sometimes more. The last 2-3 weeks he began screaming worst than before when it was nap time, sometimes it would take me an hour to get him to fall asleep, whenever I put him down in the playpen he wakes up, crying and I have to start it all over again (something he wasn't doing before) and the worst part of all his naps now only last about half an hour, I can't get his back to sleep after he wakes up unless I sit in a dark room holding him and stay there until he wakes up from his nap - not happening- and whenever I try to put him down in the playpen again he wakes up.

Yesterday I actually got him to sleep without screaming his head off and just made him a bed on the floor with blankets and managed to put him down there after rocking him to sleep, putting him to sleep took 20 mins (which is good compared to what he was doing before) this was all miraculous yesterday, however his nap still only lasted 30 mins.

His parents say at home he naps 2 hours and they have no trouble putting him back to sleep if he wakes up mid nap, here that's not the case.
The trouble is I have other children that need to nap and are good nappers (average hour and a half) and when he wakes up screaming he wakes the other ones up too, which I find just isn't fair to them, then nobody sleeps

I haven't had a decent break ever since this started, my lunch I practically have to swallow without chewing because i can't eat around this child either, whenever he sees someone eating he wants what they are having and my adult food isn't suitable for him, he will just cling on to my legs and wail for what I am having. No giving him one of his treats doesn't soothe him, he wants what I am having and only that

How does nap time work n your daycare? Any tips for getting this child to nap properly? I just don't understand why he has cut his naps short, there is no disturbance in the room where the children are sleeping, no reason why he should be waking up.

Thank you very much!