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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s the nap at daycare. They have no incentive to wake her up. You either need to switch to home care and cut the nap or just suck it up and do a later bedtime. Putting her in bed not tired isn’t fair on her either. [/quote]

Don't home daycares need to offer the rest time too?  My oldest actually dropped the nap when they moved from in-home daycare to a center at 3.5.  The in-home daycare had fewer kids and more younger ones and they made naptime really calm and dark.  More going on at the center and more kids, he really only napped there when he was really tired and eventually not at all.  They let the kids lay quietly on their cots with books, etc.  [/quote] there is no legal requirement to make kids sleep for 2+ hours every day. But all the daycare centers we looked at did it from 1230-3 every day. Even for 4 and 5 year olds. I’m home places are more flexible. Or an in home sitter would be too. [/quote]

You really need to ask.  The state of MD absolutely has mandated rest periods at childcares.  Centers often have two shifts of teachers but at in home daycares it’s often the same staff all day and the nap time is their only break.    So I would not assume they are going to be more flexible and engage your child while the rest of the children are napping.

I also wouldn’t move to an in home sitter just for this, but YMMV.[/quote]

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