why is naptime so hard?

AFSEAGO

I am getting so frustrated with naptime...DS fights me the entire time. It takes him about an hour to fall asleep, and then after he sleeps for and hour and a half or two hours, it's kinda late. The thing is, he takes a nap just fine at daycare! It makes me so mad. He used to ONLY nap for me, and no one else...

 

Any tips for getting an older child to nap(he will be 3 soon), it's definitely not worth him skipping a nap...that's even worse. 

melrrr

I feel your pain. I fell asleep on the floor next to her today while I was putting her down. When I woke up she was hanging off the side of the bed looking at me. She was tired when we sat down to read, and now she is jumping and running circles around the house. It's 102 in the shade right now and I was going to take her to the pool, but now I am not because I told her she had to take a nap to go. 

She refused to go to sleep until 10:00 on Thursday night, then didn't get a nap yesterday because we had an electrician working upstairs, and yesterday was AWFUL as a result. She was climbing the walls.  This miserable heat is keeping me from taking her to the park and running her into the ground, which is apparently necessary for a good nap. I'm just not subjecting us to a 109 heat index today.

j&jp

AFSEAGO:

I am getting so frustrated with naptime...DS fights me the entire time. It takes him about an hour to fall asleep, and then after he sleeps for and hour and a half or two hours, it's kinda late. The thing is, he takes a nap just fine at daycare! It makes me so mad. He used to ONLY nap for me, and no one else...

 

Any tips for getting an older child to nap(he will be 3 soon), it's definitely not worth him skipping a nap...that's even worse. 

yeah, i could have written this almost exactly.  Not sure what to do either.  

Echowysp

No advice from me.  Ds started dropping his nap after his sister came.  Now, he only naps at preschool and occasionally when he falls asleep in the car.

It took a bit of an adjustment, but I got used to it.  It's much nicer to not have the stress of fighting to nap.  And now, on days he doesn't nap (most days), he goes to bed at 7:30 and without a fight.  Nap days, he doesn't go to bed until almost 9 or 9:30 and it's a fight, plus he tends to have night terrors those nights.  Now I actively avoid him falling asleep!

AFSEAGO

Thanks guys! At least I'm not alone...I thought he might be ready to drop his nap, but he's sooo grouchy when he doesn't so that makes me think he's not ready? But I guess it's also something to think about, because he has night terrors too...hmmm...

j&jp

Echowysp:

No advice from me.  Ds started dropping his nap after his sister came.  Now, he only naps at preschool and occasionally when he falls asleep in the car.

It took a bit of an adjustment, but I got used to it.  It's much nicer to not have the stress of fighting to nap.  And now, on days he doesn't nap (most days), he goes to bed at 7:30 and without a fight.  Nap days, he doesn't go to bed until almost 9 or 9:30 and it's a fight, plus he tends to have night terrors those nights.  Now I actively avoid him falling asleep!

But he still naps fine at preschool?  My concern about letting DD skip naps on the weekend is that it would cause problems at school, but she's always napped better there.