I have not had a nap time issue in years and years. Until NOW.

I enrolled a new girl and she is 20 months. child is excellent all day and of course we finally found the struggle......(we were having one of those OMG it's almost too good to be true) UNTIL nap time.

the child went right down no issues at all. But is only napping an hour and then is screaming bloody murder when they wake up and NOTHING will calm her. She wakes up all of the other kids. MY DCKS ARE NAPPERS. I NEED MY FULL 2-HOUR BREAK with teaching a preschool program, as this is when I plan it.

I do not use PNP, child is used to being on a cot from previous school. Parent said child does this at home too.

I do not have another room to move the child to. I am stuck with all of the kids in the same room.

I tried giving her books to calm her and have her rest on her mat until everyone was ready to wake, but that did not work. I tired back rubbing to help fall back asleep, but that did not work. I can't lay down any earlier as I am on the food program and I have to have all of the kids eating at the same time.

HELP, I AM OUT OF IDEAS AND NOW ALL OF MY KIDS ARE GETTING WOKEN UP AFTER ONLY 1 HOUR OF NAP. AFTERNOONS HAVE BEEN HELL


ADVISE PRETTY PLEASE......

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I had a nap time screamer too. I have no great secret, unfortunately. Luckily the rest of my dck's are older and know that if they wake up early they have to stay quiet on their cots. They learned very quickly how to sleep through her noise. Now that she sees it doesn't get her any extra attention, she stays quietly on her cot as well. Honestly, I think the screamers bother us more than they bother the other kids. I'm sorry I couldn't be more help. I do know how frustrating it is!

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I had the same issue with my now 2.5yo dcg. After two weeks of moving her as far away as possible, setting up a visual barrier, reminding her of the expectations, and reminding the other kids of the rules, she STILL wakes after 45 minutes, but lays quietly with her book until nap is over.

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I have one too. New DCB17mths. He is fine all day otherwise. At naptime he SCREAMS, rocks the PNP like he is mad & wants out. He may sleep 20 minutes from pure exhaustion. White noise or a radio doesn't work here. I made DCM pick up early yesterday. I couldn't take it. The other DCKs can't sleep. DCM fessed up that aunt isn't watching DCB anymore because of the screaming. I told her I will continue to call for an early pickup until she works on curbing the behavior.

I seriously believe these parents rush in the minute they scream. They need to fix this at home if they want their kids to have a happy life. They are raising a demanding, I want my way child. Very sad.

Maybe Nannyde has some advice other then terming. (That is my next step)

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I had had 2 naptime screamers. Thank God the first one decided that her child didn't like it here and left. The other child I had terminiated just because they weren't here and didn't want to pay when they weren't. I'm not taking screamers anymore. Let another daycare have them there is always a quieter child after them!

Now my nephew is at my daycare and he screams to go down but stops as soon as nap is over. That is what he does at home. Sweet as can be until nap. I put him separate from the other children. Is this child young? Probably something she would outgrow?

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Perhaps she could stay awake longer reading books and then go to sleep, so that her wake up is closer to the end of nap? If she's still new, maybe it will stop when she get used to waking up at your house.

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That's a good suggestion.

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Thanks for the responses.

Thinking about it more, she's used to going down earlier. She's hardly making it through lunch. She has fallen asleep at the table almost daily. I found out she is used to napping from 11:45 to 1. We don't go down until 1

So sounds like maybe I need to put her down earlier, but from the sounds of it she's not really a napper with her old schedule. Id be worried that she will be awake while everyone is sleeping.

She does not cry when going down, she falls face first fast asleep. It's waking up she screams at the top of her lungs.

I wish I had another room to put her. The other kids wake up startled and upset by it. Hands over ears saying my ears hurt

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Do you think she could be having night terrors? My son had them mostly at night, but sometimes they happened at nap time and he would scream.

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