I babysit three kids (5 year old girl, 3 year old boy, and 2 year old boy) from about 5pm and stay all night. The mom usually doesn t get home until 1am at the soonest. The oldest never wants to go to sleep until her mom gets home, so I m busy all day with three kids. I get tired, but feel like I have to stay up until all the kids are sleeping. By like 11pm, I m exhausted, but the daughter won t go to sleep. Even if she is just laying down watching TV until her mom gets home, I don t know if it s okay to fall asleep.
I would ask the mother what her opinion is about this, if she says it's ok then yes you can fall asleep, but if she says no then maybe you can ask her about ways that you can help her daughter go to sleep so that you can then go to sleep.
No. She needs to go to bed. NO TV. That is what is keeping her awake.
Ask mom how to get her down to sleep (other than TV as that does not work).
Sounds like mom has never taught her daughter how to fall asleep when she goes to bed. Not much you can do since mom has not sleep-trained her child. sorry.