Assuming maybe he is getting too much daytime rest, this week I have tried replacing Mister Man's nap with an hour-long "quiet time" in his room. The only way for this schedule to work, however, is for him to go to bed between 7 and 7:30 p.m. and sleep for at least 12 hours. Otherwise he is short on rest.
Today was a "short on rest" kind of day. I found him like this at 5:30 p.m. and moved him to his bed for the night:
I'm not yet sold on the idea of no-nap. His attitude really tanks in the afternoon, and if he goes to bed at 7:00 p.m., he will not see Daniel get home from work many days of the week. I think I'm going to re-instate nap time but limit the length of his naps to about 90 minutes.
At what age did your kiddos give up naps?
3 comments:
I'm never giving up on naps!!
Carson is 4 and if he skips he always falls asleep around the dinner hour.
He takes about 2 hours to fall asleep at night usually. That's been going on for about a year.
Lucy & Clyde napped till they were 4 or 5 and when they did grow out of naps it was a process. They wouldn't take a nap one day then they would the next...after awhile, they would skip 2 days then take one the 3rd day. They used to ALWAYS take a long time going to sleep...we gave them "sleep books" to "read" in bed while they fell asleep.
Iris was different and absolutely COULD NOT go to sleep at night if she took a nap when she was almost 3...she would stay up till 2 am if she took a nap, so we let her off early.
Sam gave up his nap about 6 months (?) ago and we most definitely do rest time. He sits up in my bed and plays with toys, looks at books, or watches a DVD for 2 hours. On the weekends, when there is someone else to help out, he doesn't usually have rest time but this momma needs some alone time.
Some days he still falls asleep though and I completely fine with that too except that if I need to wake him up, he's in a cranky mood.
The whole reason we had him move to rest time instead of napping is b/c he shares a room with Grey and he wasn't napping many days and therefore interrupting Grey's nap. Also, lots of going to bed late and waking up much too early.
In my experience, it takes a couple weeks for their sleep rhythms to regulate. How hokey does that sound?? Good luck!
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