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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Children at daycare are habitually overtired from bad, inconsistent, or nonexistent napping. For a share to function well the kids should be on similar if not identical schedules, and the parents need to be on board with making that happen. Attachment parenters need to either pony-up the money for their own nanny, stay home with their own kid, or accept your reality. You are in a share, and that means sharing the nanny in all senses not just sharing her salary. Your child can't monopolize the nanny with his need for constant attention to the point that the nanny cannot get her tasks done or take care of the other child.[/quote]

Not true at all. A good daycare doesn't have overtired children from inconsistent or nonexistent napping. Maybe you have worked at crappy ones but the ones that I have experience with, this was never the case. A nannies job is to manage the nap schedule during the week. In my experience, a different nap schedule on the weekend does not throw everything out the window. Any nanny who thinks the only way to institute a schedule is to put them in the crib, shut the door and let them scream just doesn't know what she is doing.

The problem is that there are too many nannies out there with no childcare skills.[/quote]

In my experience, a weekend-long disruption of a sleep routine has been enough to disrupt an infant's sleep schedule until Wednesday or Thursday of the following week. Not true for all children, but just as some adults suffer from insomnia or other sleep disorders, babies have different rhythms as well, and different sensitivities. To say that the OP clearly has no childcare skills because she has two infants with different sleep schedules and routines (CIO vs. attachment?!) at home is really rude. Would you imply that a mother whose colicky baby cries all the time has no parenting skills? Not everything can be accounted for by knowledge and experience - there is the human variable to consider.[/quote]

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