nap time at school when your preschooler no longer needs a nap
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Anonymous
| Totally agree to avoid if possible! The last 6 months of daycare (age 3-3.5) before DC pre-K3 were an absolute nightmare because of napping. She'd fall asleep with the other kids since it was her routine and then would be up until 10:30 or 11:00 at night. As soon as she switched to pre-K and stopped napping, the problem solved itself. No way would I sign myself up for that voluntarily. |
Anonymous
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I sent mine to a 2-5 daycare where they enforced having to actually lay in your cot that whole time, no alternatives. It wasn't great.
My 5 yo, who went as a drop in one day, confirmed the same. |
Anonymous
| What’s the big deal about kid falling asleep at 10? I don’t understand “the horror”. Yes we all want our 2 hours of adult time… but you work around it and get the chores done and life goes on. Why make it into a tragedy? |
Anonymous
It's after my bedtime 🥱 and for us it was getting towards 11pm, not 10pm. My DH reports before 6am in DC. My son also wasn't sleeping but it would still affect bedtime so his total sleep was reduced. Not a tragedy but not best practice either. It's also okay to say something doesn't work for your family and to find alternatives that do that's not a tragedy that's smart |
Anonymous
Perhaps that time needs to be used for focused work, exercise, getting other kids to bed, going to bed early, s*x , meditation or the 10 million other things that its much harder or impossible to do well with a 3 year old hanging on to you. Fascinating you can't imagine this yourself |