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jappicel
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If your 2 or 3yr old doesn't nap anymore
jappicel
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Does he/she have a quiet or rest period? If so, how do you enforce this? What are they doing during the quiet time? (TV, other activity, laying down, reading...) Are you a part of their quiet time or not?
I'm trying to decide if my almost 3yr old still needs nap. If she does nap she doesn't fall asleep until about 9pm (even though we put her in the crib by 8p) and still wakes by 6:30-7a (too early for me!). If she doesn't nap we try to get her in bed by 7pm and she falls asleep immediately and wakes around 7-7:30am...
On days she doesn't nap, she's a bear in the afternoons. Some times nods off for a minute or two, rubs her eyes...
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Re: If your 2 or 3yr old doesn't nap anymore
My DD gave up her nap at 2 1/2, it was hard at first but now her night sleep is much better. She usually sleeps from 8-8 no problem. When she was still napping we would put her down at 8 and she would be up until 9 as well.
I tried rest time in her room and she just yelled and woke up her sister. We go into our basement and rest, she watches a movie and I get to sit and do stuff on the computer. She still plays and runs around but at least its a change of scenery for us
We do quiet time. Sometimes she falls asleep, but usually not. She fought it in the beginning, but since I put books in bed with her she just stays there. I can hear her talking, singing, etc, but as long as she is not upset she'll stay there 2 hours. If she gets upset or it sounds like she's bouncing off the walls I end it early.
For us, the rest period does help with evenings, even if she doesn't sleep.
Ditto for us, except that DD#1 gave up her nap at age 2 and DD#2 gave up her nap at 20 months.
Quiet time doesn't work in our house either since DS still naps.
My kids all go to bed around 7pm and wake around 7-7:30am......
I tried to do a rest period in her room in the hopes that she'd fall asleep but she wasn't having it. And frankly, I couldn't take the battle at naptime and then again at bedtime. (because for a period of about a month if she didn't get a nap then bedtime was a battlezone).
My daughter just wouldn't stay in her room. ANd if I stayed in there w/ her she would mess around and end up pissing me off. So rather than keep fighting against it, I threw in the towel and we now do a rest on the sofa. We make a nice little nest each afternoon w/ blankets & pillows. I close the curtains and pop in a movie. If she'll sit still for 30-45 min that's better than nothing, right? And usually it's enough to keep her going through dinner & until bedtime.
My friends' children all sit in their rooms quietly and read for an hour or two. I have no idea how they do it though. I often tease my girlfriends that they put something in the lunchtime milk!
It was a sad day in our house when the naps went by the wayside at 2 yrs 8 months. I didn't go down without a fight, but it had gotten hopeless (she just sat up there and yelled). So bedtime became a firm 7 pm.
Rest time was a bust. She would stay in her room for about 15-20 minutes tops and then wanted to come downstairs and play with me. Now I usually put her in front of a movie with some snacks so her body gets a little downtime.