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I just started watching a little girl who is 8.5months. If i put her down all she does is cry, and I mean cry. She has been with me for over 2 weeks. I can see that she gets adult play all day, but I'm busy with the other kids so I can't just carry her all day and I can't play with her all day either. I can be in the same room and she cries. How can I fix this.
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I wish there was an easy button for you...but only time and consistency will fix this.
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yup, nothing but time on this one. no holding unless absolutely necessary and try your best to not pick her up until she calms. Its hard, especially at this age and could take a couple months. its up to you if you have that kind of patience or not. I cannot do criers, done it before and no amount is worth the chaos one child can cause. I just term and find another kid that does fit in if the trial period gives no progress. also make sure she is having enough sleep (I think all of my criers were kids that had very poor sleep habits) and also a good diet and plenty of time outdoors.
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I was just coming on here to post the same about the same age child. Mine's a part-timer so that's even harder, plus mom's attachment parenting, which from what I'm discovering doesn't mix with the daycare scene. I'm not sure what to do with him. I get him going pretty good and then we have a long wknd and it's all screwed up the next week.
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I recently went through this with 2 daycare kids. One was 12 months and the other was 10.5 months. Sounds like they did the same thing your daycare kid is doing. I couldn't put these kids down for 2 seconds without them crying, and even following me around. It was so annoying and put a damper on everyone's day. The only advice I have for you is to provide an area for the little one to play in (maybe a playpen?) or let them be on the floor with the other children. Let the child cry and do not pick up unless you have to for. It will drive you nuts, but hang in there. When it came time for me to do a craft or circle time with the other children, I would just put the criers upstairs in their playpen for a quiet time so that I could speak to the other children and be heard. Sometimes the little ones would fall asleep or just calm down. Once I went to get them and brought them down the crying would begin again (if it had stopped) but then I just carried on my day and never picked up. It will stop soon!
Within a couple of weeks this behavior has stopped and everything got easier. Both kids are still here and are doing very well. They go about their day and don't care what I'm doing or who I'm with. I know it seems like it will never end but hang in there. |
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the combo of part timer AND AP parenting is hell for a daycare provider. This is by far the most challenging situations I have ever had to deal with. In some ways it is worse then just letting a kid run wild with no rules. I am not knocking AP, all I am saying is that everything you are taught with that style is polar opposite of what daycare is.
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Infant AP State paid Part time Rotating days Breast fed cloth diaper transport by bus daily 2 hour visits at naptime She calls me and tells me the above and that with her split shifts she wanted to come to my house (during nap... she worked at a child care downtown and that she would never put her kid there). She wanted .. for the twenty dollars a day... to come every day during nap time for TWO hours and breast feed and "hang out". She couldn't get anyone to even interview her. I told her straight that it would be nearly impossible for her to find someone to do all of the above. The two hour visit every day was enough to put me off her list but all the rest of it for next to no money... NO WAY She didn't get it at all. She gave me the "my child" and she should be able to get to know anyone who takes care of her kid... she should be able to hang out every day to do that... Didn't understand the managing breast milk babies was any different than formula... that cloth wasn't harder than paper diapers... and that breast fed baby in cloth was even harder... that rotating shifts for part time was only going to work if you got full pay (which the state doesn't do)... and that the AP wouldn't work in group care. I tried to explain that she really couldn't present a provider with more things against her if she tried. I'm not even clever enough to make up a worse case scenario for really low pay. If she wanted a slot she needed to do full time.. no daily visits... not expect the a.p. and that she would be LUCKY to find someone to do breast milk and cloth diapers. I don't know of any provider that does both here. I would be happy to do the cloth BUT I would charge a daily fee for it on top of the tuition that would be more than the cost of diapers. I've often wondered about how it turned out for her. She didn't have a clue about why she couldn't even get anyone to interview her.
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oh man, thats pretty crazy interview nanny. basically all the most challenging parts for baby care rolled into one clueless mom. yikes!
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that is hard... so very hard,,, but consitency is very important
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