newtodaycare22 11:36 AM 12-30-2011
Does anyone else have a major problem with this???
Nobody ever calls my house except during nap, I swear. Some kids are dead to the world, some wake up and go back to sleep, but some wake up and can't go back to sleep. It's so annoying. I can't take it off the hook because I'm required to have a working home line for daycare purposes.
Any ideas?
familyschoolcare 11:46 AM 12-30-2011
Can you turn the volume on the ringer down.
Also, do you have a cell phone that can count as a working phone.
Michelle 11:53 AM 12-30-2011
I have a cell and put it on vibrate
Sunchimes 11:54 AM 12-30-2011
I bury mine under the quilt that I keep on the sofa. I can still hear it, but it doesn't wake the babies. At least I do when I think of it. Too often, and always the days I forget, it wakes them up. I swear, it won't ring for a solid week, and the day I forget, someone calls.
grandmom 02:05 PM 12-30-2011
I also bury mine. Then when I answer, I whisper. They get the idea. When I aske people to call me back, I always remind them: not during nap time please. Over the years it has helped a lot.
dave4him 02:52 PM 12-30-2011
I really hate when that happens
Christian Mother 03:58 PM 12-30-2011
Yup, have that same prob. too...with my home # I have the volume down extra low and comply low to not hear at all in my bedroom where one of the kids sleeps. With my cell I have it on vibrate. If on the off chance I forget to put the volume down I pick the phone up most likely someone asking about donations and then tell them sorry my kids are sleeping and hang up.
Blackcat31 07:37 AM 12-31-2011
beachgrl 07:53 AM 12-31-2011
I have to have my home phone ringer turned down and put my cell on vibrate as I have had the same issues!
Sunchimes 05:00 PM 12-31-2011
You are so lucky Blackcat. When my first dck was a baby, she was that way. She slept in a pnp in the living room with the tv on. She outgrew it though. And I have one that wakes up when a gnat sneezes. And screams and screams. We tiptoe ar!
2ndFamilyDC 05:56 AM 01-03-2012
Originally Posted by Sunchimes:
I bury mine under the quilt that I keep on the sofa. I can still hear it, but it doesn't wake the babies. At least I do when I think of it. Too often, and always the days I forget, it wakes them up. I swear, it won't ring for a solid week, and the day I forget, someone calls.
I do the same thing.....
The sound of a ringing phone is pretty loud and startling in a quiet house.
newtodaycare22 10:36 AM 01-03-2012
Hmmm..burying it-interesting concept.
) I'll have to look at the volume and consider how to cover it. Thanks guys! I can't only have a cell phone-regulations said a land line is needed (and I even have to have one corded phone, not power operated)
Thanks!