You've hit the nail right on the head: She's not my child.
Because she's not my child, I don't feel like it's my place to change up the bedtime routines... and since the moms have been really lax about "helping her fall asleep" (for a while they were sticking to a cool 'Mama will sit in the chair and not talk and you can put yourself to sleep' thing that lasted maybe 2 weeks) I feel like it would be disaster both for E and for me as a babysitter if I instituted a harder-line "Monday evening only" routine.
I have talked to her parents a couple of times about this and there's always some element of "yeah, we need to get back to that..." but in the end, it's their call, not mine.
I've managed to stick some little things in the framework of their routine (like answering everything she says after the first couple of statements with, "No talking, time for bed.") but what I usually end up doing is busting out the Big Gun: "If you talk again, I am going to go sit in the chair." That usually works - she's not sleeping but she doesn't talk anymore.
I don't feel comfortable doing much more because she's not my child and it's not really up to me to change her routines. Blah!
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Because she's not my child, I don't feel like it's my place to change up the bedtime routines... and since the moms have been really lax about "helping her fall asleep" (for a while they were sticking to a cool 'Mama will sit in the chair and not talk and you can put yourself to sleep' thing that lasted maybe 2 weeks) I feel like it would be disaster both for E and for me as a babysitter if I instituted a harder-line "Monday evening only" routine.
I have talked to her parents a couple of times about this and there's always some element of "yeah, we need to get back to that..." but in the end, it's their call, not mine.
I've managed to stick some little things in the framework of their routine (like answering everything she says after the first couple of statements with, "No talking, time for bed.") but what I usually end up doing is busting out the Big Gun: "If you talk again, I am going to go sit in the chair." That usually works - she's not sleeping but she doesn't talk anymore.
I don't feel comfortable doing much more because she's not my child and it's not really up to me to change her routines. Blah!