Grandparents and routine

[No1toerag]

Looking for a way through this.... we're looking after 15 month granddaughter 1.5 days /week, and have strict nap instructions which include waking her up before she's ready to wake up, and keeping her awake so she's ready for her afternoon nap. Not allowing her to sleep late in the afternoon I fully understand, but she hasn't read the memo and sometimes doesn't drop off at the prescribed times! This is causing some angst from her parents if she then doesn't go to bed at exactly the right time, so just wanted to gather some advice please?

Yet the GP’s doing childcare one day a week is saving the parents how many ££s?

If you want cast iron rules hire a nanny.

I would be annoyed with rules so restrictive you can’t do normal days out with her. Do they not take her anywhere when not working?

They do know a nursery wouldn't pander to that shit don't they?

I accepted from the start that my mum was doing us a huge favour with a days childcare and what happened happened re naps and bedtime. Luckily I was never very PFB and we just rolled with DCs non existent sleep. A single day a week saves us over £200 a month (x2 dc for ~3 years each), as well as a regular sleep over. I'm more than willing to accept a later bedtime for that.

I think at 15m the parents need to relax, the dc can't tell time and sometimes they won't sleep at the exact minute the parents declare as bedtime. Naps will naturally reduce anyway so that schedule is going to change.

Our nursery (and the ones we viewed) follow the baby's own routine for naps up until two years old, so the babies will be put down and woken according to the parents' wishes.

My brother and his wife tried this when my parents were going to look after their first, I think they realised that it wasn't going to happen and suddenly my brother packed his job in to look after her.... Funnily enough they were much more relaxed about their second 😂

Wow, precious first born, by any chance??

I like naps 9/10 and 1/3 roughly

always wake by 3

at 15mth I would expect one nap 1-3

bir while they get used to that that 11/1 or wake then lunch

then 1130 lunch sleep 12

stx etx while getting used to afternoon nap being later

You mean morning naps

all children I’ve nannies for and my own dd slept 1-3 ro least 3 often 4yrs and then I did down /stop due to starting school birthday dependant

go to the beach. Take buggy. Nap in buggy in shade on beach

then won’t fall asleep on way home

I get the waking in the morning on time...siblings with school runs would havd to. At her age she should be transitioning to one nap a day just before or after lunch time...so may need an early lunch.
It's not unusual for them to then need a 2 hour nap that should see them to bed time.
As a childminder I am not allowed to prevent a child from sleeping as it is against their human rights and Ofsted wouldng bd happy I'd try my best to get that early nap but if they fell asleep in a car, pushchair or playing then that's what they need.
There is evidence that for normally developing children a good nap encourages night time sleep but many expect a tiered child to go quiet whereas the more tiered they get the louder and more active they become bouncing off the walls is this what your granddaughter is like in the evening?