if you pick LO from DC 6pm or later?

ESTH2000

Does DC give them dinner?

I'm wondering how this works. My nanny usually feeds DD dinner but mostly she leaves for me when I get home. I'm not sure if I should stress to nanny I want DD to eat dinner earlier.

I know she is eating well during the day. After lunch she has some snacks but I think it is too long for her to go without dinner till 6pm +. I know DD is hard to feed..she acts like she is not interested even if she is hungry..its like jumping through hoops sometimes to get her to eat. I also think DD is getting used to eating at this later time when I get home. Nanny tells me she eats better with me.

At times it boils down to DD having a good nap or dinner before I come home. I ended up telling the nanny she HAS to do one of the two..otherwise..she ends up falling asleep with no dinner. This has been working well for some time now but I feel like on the days she naps well..there is still time for nanny to feed DD dinner but she doesn't try hard enough and simply leaves it for me. Plus nanny is now taking care of her newborn grandson, so I know its just harder for her in general.

So ..is it not the norm for DD to get dinner?

Should I telll nanny its important she feed her dinner?

Or is it okay DD eats dinner late, as long as she had eaten good bfast, lunch and snack?

 

 

emiannie

I don't know about having a nanny at home specifically because DC facilities are different since they have many children and not just yours.  Ya know?  But if I pick up Miles at 6 I wouldn't expect them to have him fed.  He gets breakfast, lunch and two snacks at daycare and that's all I expect from them.  I rarely pick him up that late, but when I do we go straight home and eat dinner. 

I'm not sure if that answers your questions or helps at all...but I hope so.

CHI-06

I specifically do not want them to feed my daughter dinner because I want to have sit doen family dinners.  My husband gets home at 6 and I am usually there by 6:15.  He gets dinner on the table (we always have to have something prepared in advance cause there is no prep time night of).  My daughter has a snack around 3 or 3:30 and then waits for dinner.  Personally I do not think that is at all too late to be eating dinner.

dusk42

Unless you have a long commute, I would choose to eat dinner as a family.  

desabean

This is a constant struggle for me.  MIL watches G about 3 miles from my work, but it can take up to an hour to get home....so close to 6:30 and sometimes later (sometimes earlier) but she goes to bed (and gets a bottle at bedtime) at 7:15 so I really don't want her getting dinner at 6:30 and botle at 7:15.

Sometimes MIL has fed her and sometimes she hasn't and I always have to ask so then I am scrambling to get out of there so I can get home in time to let her have the two "meals' with a little distance.  And not go to bed with a belly fully of peas and chicken....