How old was your kid when he/she stopped taking naps?
And did bedtimes get earlier without much extra work?
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I look for crankiness as the signal for needing sleep. Crankiness always got treated with sleep in my house, so I'd probably make a cranky non-napper go to bed earlier, even if he didn't want to.
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I didn't put them to be any earlier when they stopped.
Aidan is still napping and still desperately needs to. He doesn't sleep that well at night either, but his nighttime sleep is significantly worse when he's skipped a nap.
Bedtime definitely got easier!! On non-nap days, my kids are in bed by 7:00-7:30pm and up by 6:30-7am. Basically every hour of nap time at this point adds an hour to bed time.
The little one can be a bit of a bear in the evening leading up to bed time though.
J who is 5 stopped napping in pre-school this last year but he still benefited from laying down for quiet time even when he didn't nap.
J is in bed by 8:30 pm at night. SK got her bed time extended to 9:30 pm in jr high and now 10:00 pm in high school.
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Nathan, who is now 17 months, consistently naps for about 1.5-2 hours around midday. He goes down between 7-8 PM and is up between 6-7 AM. I think he will nap until past his 2nd birthday. He is a very different child from his brother in this way. He goes to sleep willingly most naps and nights, whereas Harry fights it tooth and nail and always has.
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Oliver turned 2 in July and is still napping every day. I hope he'll keep it up longer than his brother.
Chas if 4. Although he doesn't need one every day...he still needs one every other day. We forgo them on the weekend but we do make him lay down and rest so we can have some quiet time. I do know most days when he doesn't take a nap...he goes to sleep faster. He's always been a kid that takes forever to shut his mind off...but so am I.
Addison is 2: She needs a nap every day otherwise she's grumpy.
I will say both of my kids go through bouts where they try to give up naps...I just battle through with them...usually after a week...they go back to taking naps. My friend just gave up...puts her kids to bed at 7:00 or 7:30...they sleep till 7:00 or 7:30 the next morning. I will say her kids are annoying from about 3:30 and on..whiny...it would drive me batty. But she gets most of her evening to herself. My kids would never see daddy if we had her schedule.
Holden is 2.5 and that kid would sleep all day if I let him, he sleeps a good 4-5 hours more in a 24 hour period then Maggie ever has.
They both go to bed at 8. They usually wake up between 7 and 8 in the morning.