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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't want the 6-year-old to eat in the car, I would suggest a "heavy" snack during the down-time in the morning, and then a fast snack right as you drop him off. He should be able to drink a cup of milk and eat a substantial granola bar in 5 minutes or less.

The behavior issues in the morning are because you're new, they know the layout and you don't, and because they are testing, testing, testing.

Come up with a plan the night before. Child A doesn't listen? All three of you sit in one spot for x minutes and no one talks to him until the time-out is over. If everyone is late, so be it. He vanishes? When you find him, he sits and watches the activity but doesn't participate.

This is a very busy schedule, and I can't imagine what's going on with the baby's naps, but your priority for the next few weeks needs to be to stay as calm as possible so the kids don't succeed in getting a rise out of you. Making it to everything on time needs to be secondary to getting them to listen to you and to trust you.[/quote]

Thank you! This truly makes me feel better and sounds like a good solution.

I'm going to discuss it with mb on Monday (the 'time out' part). I have never nannied this age so it's all a new experience as opposed to the infant/toddlers I have had in the past [/quote]

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