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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your boss is not giving you any choices here.  you can't do CIO, but your only way to help him sleep is to continuously enter and leave the room over and over which is clearly not working. so you did what you felt would work.  he got rest he needed.  I think that is better than him being cranky all afternoon.[/quote]

Good point.

I cannot believe any parent is even [i]instructing[/i] their nanny to enter and re-enter a room every five minutes for up to 45 minutes to calm a crying child!

Sorry OP, but it sounds to me like you have the job from Hell! I would quit if I had to deal with that. I would tell my MomBoss either let me do things the easy way or find another caregiver. It's unhealthy for the child to be crying for such a long time and it is much healthier for him to have you lie down and be a comforting presence so he can get his rest.

It does not sound to me like she has his best interest at heart regarding her son's physical health.

A child at that age [u]NEEDS[/u] a daily nap. Kids this age grow so rapidly that their bodies need a break during the day to rest. To take the chance that he might forgo this important ritual daily is simply neglectful as a parent. That is precisely why he gets moody when he doesn't get his daily nap. It's nature's way of telling everyone that his body needs to settle down and take a break.

I see no harm in lying down beside his crib until he falls asleep. It's not like you are training him to sleep next to you in a bed or are giving him Benadryl to sleep.

I think this mother is just trying to control you and you should find another position.[/quote]

Stop sockpuppeting, OP. Unless all of the sudden we now have two posters who randomly underline and italicize stuff, in which case stop doing that too.[/quote]

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