Re: Transition to daycare - or not?
- From: toto <scarecrow@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:26:01 GMT
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:10:59 GMT, Dan Stromberg
<strombrg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>Hi folks.
>
>My wife went back to work yesterday, and we've been attempting to get our
>5 month old son transitioned to day care, but it's proving difficult.
>
>In short, my wife and I, without having really read that much on the
>subject(s), have been closer to "attachmentites" than "furberites", and
>now that our son needs to go to day care, we're finding his day care
>practitioner unable to give him the same level of attention we've
>acclimated him to.
>
That is probably so since most daycares have more than one
child to a caregiver. You would find it difficult if he was not an
only child, so think of it as getting a bigger family.
>What level of attention? He often needs to be walked around indoors to
>get him to sleep - say maybe 20 minutes to get him to nod off, and then
>another 15 minutes to get him deeply asleep enough that he usually won't
>wake up as soon as we put him to bed.
>
While this is what you do, it may be that the daycare will have
other techniques that work for him. Depending on how many
children are in care, they will probably be able to walk and rock
him some, but they may prefer to place him in the crib and
rock the crib while watching other children or to see if he can
self-soothe while the caregiver rubs his back. Different
caregivers will do things differently. Children are pretty good
at adjusting to this.
>Also, he seems to really need to go out for walks once in a while -
>anywhere from 20 minutes to 90 minutes, I suppose. We've
>one for walks anywhere from 1 to 5 times a day, "as needed".
>
I did that alot with my kids. A good daycare will take the children
out for some portion of the day. They may play in a playground
(with a blanket on the ground) or some other kid-safe equipment
and they may take the children out for a walk in a multiple stroller.
They will probably not go more than 1 or 2 times a day though.
>Is it too much to hope for a day care scenario that might approximate
>this? If not, what do we need to look for? Maybe an ultra-low ratio of
>care giver to child? (We've been trying a 1 to 4 place, but he cried for
>a solid our today, so I picked him up and took him home early). Maybe a
>place that specializes (or has specialty people) in infant care?
>
I would try to find a place that has a 1 to 3 ratio rather than 1 to
4. The licensing standards often allow 1 to 4, but that's not great
for infants under a year, imo.
What about hiring a nanny at home? If you cannot afford one,
what about sharing a nanny with another family that only has
one child? That way there would be one caregiver for two
children instead of three or four.
One other suggestion, since he is just at the stage where he
might be beginning to have some separation anxiety. Play a
lot of peekaboo and hide and seek games with him to show
him that you always come back.
>Thanks much for any suggestions you have to offer!
I hope you find the best care possible for your child.
--
Dorothy
There is no sound, no cry in all the world
that can be heard unless someone listens ..
The Outer Limits
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