Do you wake a sleeping "toddler"?

MrsBraun · August 2011

Do you let your toddler sleep as long as they want in the morning/nap or do you wake them up to keep them on schedule.

DD is still sleeping and I know if she sleeps any longer she won't take her good 2 hour nap in the PM....but I also hate to wake her up! What do you do in your house?

naflmj · August 2011

I wake him up on work days but otherwise let him sleep. I adjust his nap time accordingly.

hikerbeth · August 2011

Depending on our schedule (dropping off DD at school, picking up) I have to wake DS up if he sleeps in in the morning and from his nap sometimes.

Other than that, I never wake him in the morning, but I will get him up from his nap at 4-4:30 pm (regardless of when he went to sleep) so it won't mess up bedtime.

magdusia · August 2011

i make my nanny wake him up at 8 and if it's the weekend i let him sleep (but for some reason he wakes up at 6am on the weekends and my nanny has a hard time waking him up at 8 -grr)

I also have her wake him up from his naps, otherwise he'll sleep for 4 hours and then is a nightmare at night. by waking him up and controlling his naps, he STTN..

izziebee · August 2011

On the weekends we let him sleep in (this weekend he slept till 945am yay!) but on weekdays I have to have him up by 6:30 so we can be out the door at 7:10.We are all MUCH happier if we are all able to sleep in.

For naps on the weekend, I have him up by 4:30 if he's not up already, otherwise he'll be messed up for bedtime. I hate doing this though b/c he ends up miserable!! The sitter I believe wakes him up from his nap if it appears to be going too long (he goes down around 12:30 there and is up around 2:30 normally)

Dreamsicle23 · August 2011

hikerbeth:
Depending on our schedule (dropping off DD at school, picking up) I have to wake DS up if he sleeps in in the morning and from his nap sometimes.

Other than that, I never wake him in the morning, but I will get him up from his nap at 4-4:30 pm (regardless of when he went to sleep) so it won't mess up bedtime.

Pretty much this. I only wake him up if we really need to go somewhere, or if his last nap threatens ruining bedtime.

smitt2619 · August 2011

My LO is 18m now, and one just 1 nap. I rarely wake him up early, only if we need to be somewhere and he has napped long enough to be okay until bedtime, or if he gets a late nap and I don't want to throw off bedtime. When he was on 2 naps, I also rarely woke him up from his first, with the except on the 2 days/wk that we had to take DS1 to preschool. But the time we had to leave was his normal wake up time anyhow. Usually he'd sleep for about 3+ hours total, and the start of his 2nd nap would be determined in part by when he woke up from his 1st nap and how long it was.

eitaknna9 · August 2011

Typically in the morning I will let her sleep as long as she needs. Then, I just make sure she gets a lot of play time, and she will not have a problem going down for nap. That's just my DD though. If yours won't take her PM nap, then I might consider waking her up.

That said, I will wake her up if her PM nap lasts until 5 p.m. because I want to make sure she's nice and ready for bed at her usual 7:30 p.m.

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