Scratch that idea

[wrenb]

My afternoon has reminded me of all the reasons I shouldn't take on the care of someone else's baby. I don't really know what I'm doing here, parenting, I'm just making it up as I go along. That's fine to inflict on my own offspring but not so cool with someone else's

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[zathrus]

Really, we're all just making it up as we go along. All of us. Even (especially) me. The parents who think they know it all, simply haven't yet had the kid who will teach them otherwise

[ricevermicelli]

Also, no reasonable parent would expect you to do with their kid something that most parents can't do with their own. Kids sometimes skip naps, or cut them short, and it's not like daycare providers have magic to make them sleep longer.Yes this

[wrenb]

It's not so much that he didn't nap, is that I did. I can imagine the enraged blog posts of "My DCP was asleep on the job!".

[zathrus]

Ah, that. Yeah, that'd be a bit more of a concern, although juggling two kids does just change things in interesting ways.

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[anemone]

My daughter's daycare couldn't get her to nap, and I was never bothered by it at all. (All the other kids napped nicely in the morning and the afternoon, but there she'd be, awake and playing.)

Now, if they'd left her to cry it out, I'd have felt differently about it...