My 3yo has always slept badly. He’s hard to settle, wakes in the night and is an early riser! He still has a nap as eliminating that made it even worse. He goes to the childminder 3 days a week and I keep stressing he needs a good nap. He’s just been poorly and out of his routine, we have managed to get this routine back and I stressed to the childminder he needed a good nap on Thursday with her. She said she would make sure this happened before they went out for the afternoon. However, when I picked him up she said he slept in the car on the way back from their outing. She said he slept about 45 mins. Here he sleeps in his cot for about an hour and 15-30 mins. She has said before that he slept on the sofa because another child was in the upstairs cot and she didn’t want to put another cot up! I have said to her a few times (she’s a family friend too) he needs a proper nap as we then suffer! In a cot in a dark room as I don’t think the sofa is sufficient.
She doesn’t have her own children so I don’t think she knows the effect it has on us long term with lack of sleep! How do I tell her politely?! I feel like I’ve said it enough times and she’s also a family friend and knows we suffer with this lack of sleep. I just worry when he comes back after a few days with her he is over tired, grumpy and it ruins our weekend and I can only attribute it to that! AIBU to be annoyed by this?!