Nap for 3.5 year old

[Anonymous]

My 3 almost 4 year old needs a nap. If she doesnt take a nap she is overtired at bedtime. Her ideal bedtime is 830 but most nights she goes to sleep at 9 with her older school age brother. Inder normal circumstances, if my kid went to bed at 7 I would never see them. How does that work in the summer? Overall, my kids really wake and sleep with the sun. They sleep in during the summer and are early birds in winter after the clocks are set back.

[Anonymous]

My daughter would still have napped twice a day at 3.5 if I let her. However she started fighting bedtime and going to sleep at 8:30/9. We had to cut her nap at around 3.5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 3 almost 4 year old needs a nap. If she doesnt take a nap she is overtired at bedtime. Her ideal bedtime is 830 but most nights she goes to sleep at 9 with her older school age brother. Inder normal circumstances, if my kid went to bed at 7 I would never see them. How does that work in the summer? Overall, my kids really wake and sleep with the sun. They sleep in during the summer and are early birds in winter after the clocks are set back.

my kid is 8 now but goes to bed at the same time year round. Currently she is in bed by 8 and I am done parenting . She reads for 45 mins and puts her light out herself. When she was 3.5 we cut out the nap because bedtime was inching closer to 10pm. So at first it was 7pm and I didn’t see her for long on my work days, but still preferable to 10pm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bedtime at 7, asleep by 7:30. Nap needs to be done by 4 at the latest, preferably closer to 3.

Your 3.5yo can sleep until 4 and still be asleep again at 730?

Dp, but mine does. She's always been a big sleeper. She typically wakes at 630am, naps 1-3 or 4, then asleep by 730pm. She turns 4 in October and sleeps about as much as my 15 month old!

[Anonymous]

He is sleeping too much at that age.. no nap. Outside/ indoor play, art ,books come on get creative with his day so he is actually sleepy at bedtime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He is sleeping too much at that age.. no nap. Outside/ indoor play, art ,books come on get creative with his day so he is actually sleepy at bedtime.

Not sure there is such a thing as too much sleep as long as it is not forced. Their body will need what it needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We pulled DD out of daycare because of the nap just after 3.5. She wasn’t falling asleep until 10pm some nights. It was a vicious cycle. For me if they can still be in bed and falling asleep by 830 I would keep the nap. Once bedtime/falling asleep time gets closer to 9 I would drop the nap.

Same here but we didn’t have the option to pull him out of daycare. Daycare wouldn’t wake him either so he’d sleep two to three hours at daycare and then not fall asleep until 10 or 11. Waking him at 7 AM was miserable and he was exhausted so he’d take another two to three hour nap and continue the cycle. This went on until he was five. Hell. I hate that about daycare.

[Anonymous]

We drop naps at third birthday to coincide with a big kid bed. Three kids, all happy nighttime sleepers.