This may seem ambitious, but it's important to focus more on how pushing back
the nap works for your child rather than sticking to a hard deadline each day.
Not exact matches
Often when
working with parents of multiples I recommend they sleep coach at night in the same room and separate the
children for naps, even if that means using a pack - n - play in a different room.
Sometimes, that doesn't
work because our
child has outgrown their sleep crutch
for their
naps and we have no choice but to start sleep coaching with an overtired
child and parent!
When your
child finally goes down
for a
nap, you'd rather use that far - too - short alone time to make headway on
work, instead of taking time
for yourself and, you know, grooming.
There are many ideas
for helping a
child to take a
nap, but the best idea in the world may not
work for you if the solution doesn't address the reason that your
child won't
nap.
The great thing about that book is that it talked about
nap schedules and how to look
for the signals in your
children about when they're tired and how to
work that into their days so that you can be flexible with what your
child needs and that's really hard when you have three at the same time but it made us able to come up with a way to have a daily schedule that allowed
for having
naps and we were really strict about you know, we have to do
naps.
Often when
working with parents of multiples, I recommend they sleep coach at night in the same room and separate the
children for naps, even if that means using a portable crib in a different room.
This indispensible guide offers comprehensive aring advice on: Identifying high - need
children Bedtime rituals Nightmares Night nursing Tips
for single parents and
working mother Encouraging
naps
Watch the early morning news and drink coffee Check in with emails from overnight Schedule my Pure Barre class
for the day Start waking kids up
for school Make breakfast -LCB- I do make breakfast -RCB- the MOST important meal
for the kids of the day Pack lunches -LCB- and any extra snacks
for after school athletic practices -RCB- Drop
child # 1 off at school Get back home and have my own quick breakfast / smoothie before class Drop
child # 2 off at school Head to Pure Barre Run any errands needed Head home and
work Chores around the house Dinner planning Fitnessmomwinecountry
work Answer emails Have light lunch or snack Try to get at least 20 minutes in
for a power
nap or just quiet time A shower before getting kids -LCB- if I am lucky -RCB- Car pool from school to sports practice Get home and start prepping dinner Get kids from practices Dinner, homework and family time My shower finally!
I
worked with one
child when I first started in Head Start in 1998, When I go to Broad St Head Start I
worked with a
child that couldn't speak, I had to put him on the bus to go to Speech then at Lunch time he would return back to School
for me to get him off the bus to bring him into the school until school ended at 3: OO pm, Received lesson Plans assigned by the teacher taught the kids their colors, puzzles, games, numbers, played a bingo game to teach them their numbers, set the lunch tables
for the kids to eat, Put out cots
for nap time, went outside
for recess.
Black out shades
work great
for napping children and those rare mornings when you get to sleep in.