Part time day care in addition to nanny?

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Anonymous wrote:No, it’s extra expense with no clear benefit if you already have a full time nanny.

Once COVID hopefully subsides, your nanny can walk with them to a playground where they play with other kids and make friends. With time, it’s mostly same kids / nannies who go to playgrounds at specific time, so if she goes every Friday from 10-12 for example, chances are they would be seeing more or less the same group of kids.

Once libraries open, there would be story times etc.

So the nanny can very easily supplement to the kids the social / learning aspect at their age.

Agreed. As long as you're okay with the baby napping on the go, that's the best way to do it.

Babies should not be “napping on the go” they should be sleeping safe and secure in their cribs. Hire a second nanny for your baby. Some of you are so insensitive towards your kids.

Total nonsense. All my babies took their morning naps in the stroller including my first. They were safe and secure in their stroller and fresh air. You’re just lazy.

Babies should nap flat on their naps in cribs:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/parenting/baby-sleep-dangerous.html

I’m not lazy lol, you’re just too poor to pay for adequate childcare for your kids :-/

I do not care. All my kids took their morning naps in the stroller and were great sleepers and are happy, bright kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My god these kids will all be snowflakes. Kids should be able to sleep anywhere. That is life.

Exactly.

People like you are insufferable to imagine there might be kids not like yours. My first napped on the go. My second was cranky from the moment he was born and lost his damn mind whenever he was tired and overstimulated. He needed a quiet, dark room. If he didn't get it he'd rage screen until he was gagging and had these massive exhausted bags under his eyes and DIDN'T SLEEP. Babies need sleep...that is the only rule. if they get it on the go, great lucky you. If they need calm, give them that because they're BABIES and need SLEEP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My god these kids will all be snowflakes. Kids should be able to sleep anywhere. That is life.

Exactly.

People like you are insufferable to imagine there might be kids not like yours. My first napped on the go. My second was cranky from the moment he was born and lost his damn mind whenever he was tired and overstimulated. He needed a quiet, dark room. If he didn't get it he'd rage screen until he was gagging and had these massive exhausted bags under his eyes and DIDN'T SLEEP. Babies need sleep...that is the only rule. if they get it on the go, great lucky you. If they need calm, give them that because they're BABIES and need SLEEP.

Someone got triggered, lol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, it’s extra expense with no clear benefit if you already have a full time nanny.

Once COVID hopefully subsides, your nanny can walk with them to a playground where they play with other kids and make friends. With time, it’s mostly same kids / nannies who go to playgrounds at specific time, so if she goes every Friday from 10-12 for example, chances are they would be seeing more or less the same group of kids.

Once libraries open, there would be story times etc.

So the nanny can very easily supplement to the kids the social / learning aspect at their age.

Agreed. As long as you're okay with the baby napping on the go, that's the best way to do it.

Babies should not be “napping on the go” they should be sleeping safe and secure in their cribs. Hire a second nanny for your baby. Some of you are so insensitive towards your kids.

Total nonsense. All my babies took their morning naps in the stroller including my first. They were safe and secure in their stroller and fresh air. You’re just lazy.

Babies should nap flat on their naps in cribs:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/parenting/baby-sleep-dangerous.html

I’m not lazy lol, you’re just too poor to pay for adequate childcare for your kids :-/

I wear babies until they’re old enough to walk, and there’s never been any “advice” to say that a baby shouldn’t sleep during babywearing.

The post I was replying to specified strollers. Also, how do you babywear if you’re running after a couple of toddlers in the playground?

1. My charges don't go to an open playground while I'm babywearing unless I trust them to be where they're supposed to be.
2. I'm the one that said "on the go." Since I don't do strollers (unless we're somewhere with their parent, and the parent wants to deal with the stroller), I never said a stroller. Other people responded, but the initial reaction was simply that babies can nap "on the go."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My god these kids will all be snowflakes. Kids should be able to sleep anywhere. That is life.

Exactly.

People like you are insufferable to imagine there might be kids not like yours. My first napped on the go. My second was cranky from the moment he was born and lost his damn mind whenever he was tired and overstimulated. He needed a quiet, dark room. If he didn't get it he'd rage screen until he was gagging and had these massive exhausted bags under his eyes and DIDN'T SLEEP. Babies need sleep...that is the only rule. if they get it on the go, great lucky you. If they need calm, give them that because they're BABIES and need SLEEP.

I'm sorry you dealt with that. However, most babies can easily adapt to sleeping anywhere; they have for millennia. The notion that children must have dark and quiet to sleep is relatively new, and many people have noticed that kids who are taught to only sleep in one place with one set of parameters (hello, white noise machine!) have a harder time acclimating to alternative sleeping arrangements when needed.

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Getting back to the original question, I second part-time morning pre-school a few days a week, or just a play group if there are neighborhood kids that you can arrange playdates with.

[Anonymous]

Another vote for PT pre school 2-3 mornings a week. I have a two year old and a 3 month old and once my maternity leave ends in February, I plan to send the older one to preschool 2-3 mornings a week. He's a handful, for one, and I also think the structure of school and being around kids will help. This is all assuming covid doesn't wreak further havoc, but we are in a non-hotspot with a very low number of cases (for now).