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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents who are willing to accept the realities of adjusting to caring for a newborn and an older child are going to learn from experience that no one person can provide perfect care for any child. Not even on a 1:1 basis. So a nanny caring for 2 children isn’t going to work 12 hours straight without using the bathroom or eating so that she can make sure each child gets nothing but solo attention by manipulating naps.

Here are a few things to consider:

Good in-home care is considered best for all children 3 and under.

Sending all older siblings to daycare once baby comes is a good way to breed resentment of baby in your older child. 2 or 3 half days? Sure. Establish “big kid school” before baby arrives so older sibling doesn’t feel shoved out to make room for baby.

Children learn best through play. No need for lessons and performative learning all day long. Play. Play with an adult nearby who interacts and talks about numbers/letters/colors/shapes/dinosaurs/whatever the older child is interested in discussing. No need for elaborate crafts focused on product instead of process. Crayons, paper, and encouragement do just fine. Play outside. Figure out when the best time is to go out so nobody overheats or gets too cold. READ. Read a lot of different books. Listen to music.

Nannies with experience know how to manage multiple children of different ages. I cared for 3 under 5 for almost 3 years. All of the children managed to graduate from an academically stringent high school, and I know that I never drilled them as toddlers on letters and numbers. We played, read books, got outside, listened to music, and I interacted with them, encouraged them to ask questions, think for themselves, and praised their curious natures.  [/quote]

this.  THIS, THIS, THIS!!!!

Play - children learn through PLAY - and it looks like... digging in the sandbox and making "cake" for an hour... baking cookies in the kitchen... running, jumping, climbing and swinging.... painting anything they want on paper - over and over and over.  with different types of paintbrushes, and different colored paint.  playing with legos, magnatiles, dolls, trucks, little people, ramps, blocks, dress ups, pretending, etc.  and singing, dancing and listening to music.  and hearing books read to them and paging through books themselves.  And, singing and doing fingerplays that are fun and also teach rhyming, rhythm, phonemes, and other pre-literacy skills[/quote]

And the more numbers/counting, letters and letter sounds, colors and shapes that you incorporate into play, the easier it is in preschool and kindergarten.  Play don’t mean just unstructured play.[/quote]

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