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[quote=Anonymous]I understand the need for schedules/routines and all since it does make life a little less stressful, but for young children who have such changing needs every week it makes no sense to me. A young child at a year old should not be on such a regimented schedule.

I care for a one yr. old baby, and he typically has two daily naps while I am there. His parents want him to stay in his crib for at least 2 hrs for his first morning nap, and once he was actually standing up holding on to the rails after an hour. I saw him on the video monitor and he was fussing and texted his father who responded for me NOT to go in there and just let him fuss, that he was still tired and that he would just cry himself back to sleep. Well he ended up fussing for another hour and it broke my heart. When I finally went in to get him after that, I changed his diaper and he had a big hard poop. I am guessing that made it uncomfortable for him to go back to sleep, but all his parents seemed to care about was him getting off his schedule I suppose. So then since he didn't have a good nap, he got cranky and drowsy and hour before his second nap. He was rubbing his eyes, fussing for no reason and didn't want to eat his lunch and all, etc. I wanted to put him down for his nap early, but again (!) his father didn't want him to get "off schedule" <---- HIS words btw, not mine, so I had to keep a cranky baby entertained for that hour which was pure hell.

When I have kids I will let them eat when hungry, sleep when tired and sleep as long as needed.
No waking up a tired baby!!!!!!!!! Or ignoring an awake one who has a dirty diaper!![/quote]

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