Picking up early from daycare?

[dancingirl21]

I have every other Friday off from work. Tomorrow is my day off but I have a bunch of errands to run and frankly, could use some time to myself. I plan to send J to daycare at least for the morning. 

Am I stupid to pick him up right after lunch and try to get him to nap almost immediately upon arriving home? Should I just leave him there until after nap and pick up around 3?

Basically I'm gauging my mommy-guilt here.

[Deleted]

I always leave them there to nap. "Early" is picking up at 3 instead of 5.

[Deleted]

Pick him up at 3 and enjoy your free afternoon!

Hell, I'd pick him up at 5.

[thebreakfastclub]

I'd pick him up at 5. I'm procrastinating picking my own child up right now.

[stephogirl]

Another pick-up-at-5 signing in!

[dcn]

Yeah pick him up after nap.

[cajunmom]

Pick him up at 3.

[dancingirl21]

Okay, thanks. This is what I thought. DH was laughing that I am bringing him at all and said, "So wait. I thought you don't work every other Friday so you can spend time with him?" Shut up, DH. You don't know.

[stephogirl]

Or, since you have every other Friday off, choose one Friday where you pick him up at 5:00 so you can have some me time. Make the other Friday a mommy-and-me day...or afternoon!

[hocus2]

Leave him there for nap. If I pick up prior nap time my kid just skips his nap that day.

[Jalapeñomel]

Pick him up at 6.

[curbsideprophet]

Pick up after nap or at the regular time.

[wavepool]

Everyone else said this, but definitely leave him there to nap! Spend naptime watching TV without worrying about if he's going to wake up any minute!

[anna7602]

Our daycare didn't like pre-nap pickups because she thought it disrupted the other kids' ability to nap. But, nap happened at 11 there.

[pinkdutchtulips]

I wouldn't ... I'd let her spend the day at daycare. A complete kid free day where do I sign up

[Muddled]

Let the poor kid sleep.

[Deleted]

Leave him! He either naps in his crib at home or at DC. It's not really quality time either way, so I'd leave him.

Also, I'm also team DCP thinks it's annoying. She really discourages unless you're leaving town for the weekend, have a crisis or doctor's appt..lol. She says it leads it to 20 minutes of "Where did X go!?" When she's trying to get 14 kids down for nap.

[cricketwife]

The other option is to take him right before lunch. You get to spend a happy morning with him, they deal with feeding and cleanup and nap, and you get him at 3 or 5, whenever. I did this a few times in the summer and it was great.

[nessness]

Sept 3, 2015 15:48:16 GMT -5 dancingirl21 said:

Okay, thanks. This is what I thought. DH was laughing that I am bringing him at all and said, "So wait. I thought you don't work every other Friday so you can spend time with him?" Shut up, DH. You don't know.

Well it's not like you can spend quality time with him while he's napping anyway. Pick up after nap with no guilt!

[VillainV]

We always leave C at daycare for nap, then pick him up afterward (so, like 2:30) if we're home. But honestly? A lot of times, if we're just gonna hang out at the house, we just let him finish out the day at daycare and pick him up normal time. Flameful? He really needs routine, and we like having time to do adult stuff, or even clean the house, do laundry, take a shower etc without having a toddler to look after.

[laurack]

I mean you pay anyway so I generally send even if I have a day off. The best is that one day a year that both h and I are off and daycare opens. Maybe it's Mlk day I can't remember. This year we went day drinking at a local dive bar. it was wonderful

[Deleted]

Team pick him up at 5. I might pick him up at 4 if I was feeling generous.

[ssmjlm]

I'm off every other Friday and E still goes. I just pick her up around 3:30 instead of 4.

No guilt. I need that me time.

[vamoose]

Quality over quantity. Think of how much more relaxed and ready to play this weekend you will be after getting some down time to yourself.

[jln]

Get your money's worth and pick him up at 5.

[ryry]

Let him nap! When dd2 was in daycare, there were many days when I could have picked her up earlier...but I knew I'd likely be interrupting her nap and that wouldn't be good for anyone. I always felt a tiny bit of guilt but really, it was the best thing for all of us! Enjoy your alone time

[shellbear09]

I would never ever ever pick up before nap.

[rikki]

Regardless of what I am doing, I pick E up at 5:59. I find something to do when he is there if I don't have to work.

[lindsaymg]

Leave him there to nap for sure!

[rxbeth]

When I work a weekend, I get Monday and Tuesday off. I still send my DD the whole day both days. It's my time to get things done. Or relax.