When did your child give up the nap? Mine is not quite two and a half

[Anonymous]

DD1 gave it up at 5 years old. DD2 gave it up at 2.5 yo. Kept quiet time til they were 6 and 8 yo.

[Anonymous]

3.5 and going strong. Some friends are dropping.

[Anonymous]

5 year old still naps on weekends - religiously. I think 2.5 is kind of young, but very child is different.

[Anonymous]

DC1 napped pretty much every day until he was about 4.5 & an average of maybe 2-3 times a week until around his 5th birthday.He's now 7 & will still occasionally fall asleep for a bit in the afternoon on the weekends or during school breaks, especially if he was up later than normal the night before &/or has been really physically active ( a lot of time spent swimming,in particular, seems to lend itself to him catching a few zzzs midday).

DD2 napped almost every day until around the time she turned 4 at the end of the summer.She now only naps maybe once or twice a week but still has quiet time every afternoon, as did her brother until right before he started kindergarten when he was almost 5 & a half.Even after he stopped needing an actual nap every day during his last year of preschool,I found that DS was generally happier, more cooperative & far less prone to whining & melting down if he was still required to rest for a while midday & this appears to be true of DD now, as well.

While the age at which a child no longer needs to nap obviously varies,as someone who works with a lot of young kids, I honestly feel like too many parents these days permit their children to stop napping before they are truly ready to, resulting in them being chronically overtired,which, in turn,negatively impacts their behavior.

If your DC is, in fact,really ready to give up his nap, OP, I would definitely continue to enforce some quiet time every afternoon if I were you.Even if he doesn't actually sleep, he could almost certainly still benefit from having a bit of down time midday.

[Anonymous]

Both of my kids stopped napping at 2.

[Anonymous]

One was 4 and the other was 2.

[Anonymous]

It varies from child to child.

I have seen children at 4 1/2 nap two hours a day still and have told their parents "Congrats...You have won the lottery for that!" and have also seen children stop napping as young as 2 yrs old.

It's a toss up, but generally by around age four, kids outgrow their need to nap at all.

[Anonymous]

My younger child stopped napping by 18 months. Older one took long naps like a champ until he was 4.