Our daycare separates the mobile/walking babies from the younger ones.

My LO just moved up to the "big baby" area and they have a schedule in place. In her first room they just did whatever schedule the parents wanted, which, for us was just on demand - feed her when she's hungry, put her down for a nap when she seemed tired, etc.

Now she's in a room where they have scheduled nap and meal times. Nap time is just once a day and they do school provided meals at 8, 11, 230, and then an afternoon snack at 4/5.

She's currently the youngest one in there at 10.5 months. The rest are all well over a year and walking.

When did your daycare expect kids to follow a set schedule? I'm not really concerned with the change, I was just curious how other locations do it.