Do you wake your kids up from nap to preserve bedtime?

[Anonymous]

Yup. Mine naps late 1:30 3:30. And I ages to wake her by 4 or bedtime will be a disaster. I need to switch her nap earlier but haven’t been successful.

[Anonymous]

Nope. My 21 month old can sleep until 5pm and still happily go to bed at 7 and sleep until 7:30 or 8 the next morning.

[Anonymous]

erinbeck wrote:We adjust based on when she goes to bed. Sometimes late/long naps keep her up, sometimes they don't, it's like she goes in and out of phases. So if we seem to be in a going-to-bed-late phase, I wake her up, else I just let it go. Wow, how I wish these sleep schedules were more predictable haha! Lately she's been all about waking in the middle of the night to play for, no joke, 3-6 hours ... (she's 2.5)

Playing alone in her bed? That’s what my 2.5 yr old does. I think her max has been 4 hours. It doesn’t seem related to her nap and I have no idea what to do about it.