Switching day care-- nap

L L CG

I liked the place we toured today.  One big thing is holding me back- the nap.

In her current class, Alice sleeps from 11-1 during class nap time and she naps on the way home in the car.  She's tired.  On the weekends, it's all I can do to keep her awake until 9:30am so she sleeps for 1.5 hours in the morning and then again around 3 in the afternoon.

The new place has nap time between 1-3.  I really fear that she won't make it that late before she has a breakdown.  The 1 nap right now is hard enough for her, I can't imagine what she'll be like if they push it back 2 hours.  When I asked the Director about the issue, she said that most kids take about a week to adjust.  But, wow... this is a big adjustment, no?

It's such a big deal to me that I think it's keeping me from pulling the trigger.

mlf625

I'm with the director.  She'll adjust.  I yanked V's morning nap at 9 months because it was keeping us from making A's morning activities.  She was a beast for a week or two, then adjusted just fine.  After that I slowly pushed her afternoon nap from 11 to 11:30 to 12 ... so on, until she was napping at 1.  Yeah, you might have a trainwreck kid for a few weeks, but it's not going to harm her long term (imo).  If you love the place, I'd go with it.  

ec3under4

If that's the only thing that's holding you back then I wouldn't worry about it. Sure, it'll suck for a week or two but eventually she will adjust. It's so hard because after the one year mark, most daycares switch over to the one nap thing and I think 12-2 or 1-3 is a pretty standard time. Maybe you could try to look at a few other places and see if they have a better schedule?

atlantic

I wouldn't let it be a deal breaker. Are they going to make her stay up anyway if she's dying to take a nap? V moved to an older room at nine months because she was walking. They were willing to still put her down for two naps (which I wanted) but with althe other activity in there she ended up just moving to their schedule. I do think she still took two naps (or at least, a monster nap) on the weekends.

michelleaxo

I agree, she will adjust. Plus, she is getting older now and may readjust on her own soon anyway.

Duckie07

ec3under4:

If that's the only thing that's holding you back then I wouldn't worry about it. Sure, it'll suck for a week or two but eventually she will adjust. It's so hard because after the one year mark, most daycares switch over to the one nap thing and I think 12-2 or 1-3 is a pretty standard time. Maybe you could try to look at a few other places and see if they have a better schedule?

Ditto!  Unless there were other issues you had with this place, I would make the switch.  When DD1 went from her in-home place to her current center, she was still solidly on two naps a day.  She was going to have to go down to one nap after the switch.  DH and I were also really concerned but it turned out to not be too big of a deal.  The transition to one nap was easy.  She still took two naps on the weekends for a little while, but soon enough she was down to one nap for the entire week.  It'll be OK!