Q: What situations have you experienced where parents have made requests that have been difficult for the nursery to comply with?
'One of our children's parents insist that he sleeps for one and a half hours in the afternoon, but we feel that he no longer needs this. Sometimes we sit with him for 45 minutes trying to get him to sleep, and then one and a half hours later he has missed most of the afternoon's activities. It has been quite a tricky issue. His parents say that if he doesn't sleep at nursery, he falls asleep in the car on the way home and then doesn't fall asleep in the evening.'
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