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tell me about your 16ish month old in daycare

TexasSmithTexasSmith
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I am putting DD in a MDOish program this summer where they rest/nap on mats on the floor. Maybe I'm wrong here, but I just can't imagine a kid that age just laying down and resting. She certainly wouldn't do that now! Please just reassure me that she will learn how to do it. I know we have a lot of time until then, but it still makes me nervous...
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  • chrisbride04chrisbride04
    DS started napping on a mat for his sitter at just before 18 months. He still won't do it for us at home, but lays down without a problem everyday for her. He struggled the first day or two only with staying on the mat after she left the room.
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  • rayskit10rayskit10 member
    from day 1, truitt laid right down and went to sleep at MDO. in fact, he doesn't even take his paci to nap at school anymore. i was really worried since i have to lay down with him at home for like 30 minutes.... but at school they respond really well to the positive peer pressure. your kid will do amazing things for her teachers that she'll never do for you...
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  • MrsMGRMrsMGR
    Joe will be on a mat starting in June. All the kids in that class now have/had no problems adjusting. Kids act WAY different when their parents aren't around.
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  • kjrkjr
    I was amazed that Alex would stay on the mat, too.  But when they see the other kids doing it and the teacher tells them to do it, it is somehow different I guess. 
    I know if I put him on a mat and told him to stay he would laugh at me. 
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  • AggieDeeAggieDee

    Jackson started sleeping on the mat around 11.5 months and didn't have a problem at all.  In fact, he is the best sleeper in the class.  The other kids only take 45 min-1 hr naps and Jackson sleeps for 2 hrs.  Even when they are yelling and running around, he is sound asleep.

     

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  • TexasHarmonyTexasHarmony
    Avery has been on a mat since 11 months and she seems to do fine with it.  I don't know how they got her to do it, but I check almost every day and she is crashed on her mat.
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  • ccc'swifeccc'swife
    I'm having the same concerns, lol! I'm putting Char in the summer MDO program at the church where she goes now, and I'm not sure if they'll transition them to nap mats yet because there are still going to be kiddos under 1 year old in there even this summer....I was just as worried about her napping at MDO, but generally she does fine.  Everyone else is right - they just adjust.
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  • jen5-03jen5-03 member

    She did so well moving to a mat at 15mo that I used that as an opportunity to move her to a bed at home too because she always hated the crib.

    They don't just tell them to lay down and they magically lay down and sleep. They do have a routine and even go around rubbing their backs to help them get to sleep if needed. We copied that routine at home and she's a much better napper at home now too.

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  • savannah11savannah11
    I don't have any experience with mat napping but I wanted to butt in to say that, like everyone else has said, kids often do things at daycare they'd never do at home. ?There's something about the influence of the other kids around them. ?
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  • lilycatlilycat

    This is one of the things they are conditioned to do at school.

    The teachers usually have the ability to get them to follow things they'd never consider doing for their parents - even the teachers say their own children behave better at school.

    DS does a wonderful nap routine at school - peer pressure and routine helps. At home, there is no similarity to the way he naps at school.

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  • kbvkbv

    Its the power of a crowd.  I'm still amazed what goes on in daycare and Alex has been in school since 3 months!  He transitioned to 1 nap on a mat at 12 months.  I actually had to pick Alex up early today for a appt and all the kids were laying down.  Even if they arent sleeping, they still lay there until nap time is officially over:)  Its the cutest thing ever!  so dont worry

    Oh, but at home, totally different story.  I rock him before his nap on the weekends and remind him of all his school friends that are taking their naps too :)

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