Mum comes to pick up child from ours. I told her that we had to wake her up from the cot because of going out to one of these inside soft play centres. She comments that her child hasn't had her nap properly on Wednesday's for a while. I said it's down to ratio's. She looked miffed by this. Sometimes we are unable to give this child a nap at all depending on how long this child takes on lunch.
The issue we have is that DH has to do 1-1 care with a autistic child but that leaves me with 3 children, one of whom needs the activity too. I can't just pander to the needs of the one child when others need attention. Couldn't expect him to be quietly playing while the child naps he is very active or the other baby to be quiet too. The child had 30mins nap today which was all we could do before having to go out to collect the autistic child.
Sometimes I wish I could give notice to this family as the mum demands a lot. Wouldn't know how though.