How much sleep does your 3/4 year old get?

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Anonymous wrote:Mine is the same age as yours, will be 4 in Oct. She dropped her nap about 3 months ago. She sleeps 11-11.5 hours a night. I wish she still napped because it's clear that she's exhausted by the end of the day but oh well. There's only so much we can do you know? I establish and enforce healthy bedtime habits, the rest is up to her.

Oh and to answer your q, she is asleep by 6:30 or 7 and wakes up by 5:30 or 6. Pre COVID when she was at daycare until 5 or so, that whole schedule was shifted 30 to 60 min later. Bedtime keeps creeping up because I get sick of her earlier in the day now 😄

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Anonymous wrote:Mine will turn 4 in October, too. She sleeps about 12 hours a night and takes a 2-hour nap every day.

Sounds great.

Does she have a lot of physical activities?

How do you encourage this schedule?, tell us your secret.

I want to ask this PP if she actually watches her child on a monitor to see if she's sleeping. Our video monitor broke when my daughter was about a year old, and we didn't get another video monitor until we had a baby when DD was 2.5. We set up the camera in her room and realized a lot of the time she was just quietly playing with stuffed animals, rolling around in bed, etc., but a lot of the time I thought she was sleeping.

This is the original PP. No, we don’t have a monitor anymore, but we can hear if she’s up and playing.

No real secret; she just enjoys sleep. The only thing I’d say is that during the night (so between 8pm-8am) we have never gone in unless she’s really upset. That’s been the case ever since she stopped nursing at night. She knows that’s the nighttime. We also lock her door from the outside, per her pediatrician’s guidance, so she stays in her room.

Okay, well, I'm telling you my daughter was also playing and I couldn't hear it. She also stays in her room and doesn't come out, and she's been sleeping through the night since 4 months. If you read either Ferber or Weissbluth, one of them talks about how parents who think their older toddlers/preschoolers are sleeping 12 hrs at night and 2 hrs during the day actually probably have children who are quietly awake for part of that time and they don't know it. If your 4 yo actually sleeps for for 14 out of 24 hrs, you have a VERY high sleep needs child - not really a guideline other parents need to follow or aspire to.

I’m not getting your point here. I never said anyone should “aspire” to what my kid is doing. Even if she is playing quietly for awhile, why is it a problem? She’s not upset. You seem to have an axe to grind here.

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10 hours/night and at least 2 hour nap.

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Anonymous wrote:My 3.75 year is dropping his nap. How much sleep does your 3/4 year old get? What are their typical wake/bed times? He is only sleeping 11 hours which seems to be on the low end of normal.

2 hr nap after lunch + 10 hrs at night ( late bedtime 9 pm - 7 am)

same here. Kid is 3.5

3rd. Mine turns 4 next month.

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As part of job, I do EI evals. I see this question answered multiple times a day for this age group. Eleven hours is the most common answer and about half nap for 1.5 hours daily.

I have a newly turned 4yo. He sleeps 11 hours and naps about once a week.

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Jealous of all the nappers. Mine gave hers up around 2.5ish. She just turned 4 in May She goes to bed around 8:15 and wakes up around 7:30ish sometimes 8.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine will turn 4 in October, too. She sleeps about 12 hours a night and takes a 2-hour nap every day.

Sounds great.

Does she have a lot of physical activities?

How do you encourage this schedule?, tell us your secret.

I want to ask this PP if she actually watches her child on a monitor to see if she's sleeping. Our video monitor broke when my daughter was about a year old, and we didn't get another video monitor until we had a baby when DD was 2.5. We set up the camera in her room and realized a lot of the time she was just quietly playing with stuffed animals, rolling around in bed, etc., but a lot of the time I thought she was sleeping.

This is the original PP. No, we don’t have a monitor anymore, but we can hear if she’s up and playing.

No real secret; she just enjoys sleep. The only thing I’d say is that during the night (so between 8pm-8am) we have never gone in unless she’s really upset. That’s been the case ever since she stopped nursing at night. She knows that’s the nighttime. We also lock her door from the outside, per her pediatrician’s guidance, so she stays in her room.

Okay, well, I'm telling you my daughter was also playing and I couldn't hear it. She also stays in her room and doesn't come out, and she's been sleeping through the night since 4 months. If you read either Ferber or Weissbluth, one of them talks about how parents who think their older toddlers/preschoolers are sleeping 12 hrs at night and 2 hrs during the day actually probably have children who are quietly awake for part of that time and they don't know it. If your 4 yo actually sleeps for for 14 out of 24 hrs, you have a VERY high sleep needs child - not really a guideline other parents need to follow or aspire to.

I’m not getting your point here. I never said anyone should “aspire” to what my kid is doing. Even if she is playing quietly for awhile, why is it a problem? She’s not upset. You seem to have an axe to grind here.

Because OP is asking how much your kids SLEEP. You stated that your daughter SLEEPS 12 hrs at night and 2 hrs at naptime, and someone else commented saying they wanted to know how you "encourage" this. And I'm just trying to point out, for the benefit of that person asking how you "encourage" this, that your daughter might very well not be actually asleep that whole time. Just like I thought my own daughter was asleep 12 hrs at night and 2 hrs at naptime and then I got a video monitor and realized she wasn't actually asleep that whole time. The thread is not about keeping children in their room, it's about sleeping.

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Mine just turned 3, potty training (which was what stopped naps for my older one) and about to drop his nap. He currently naps 2 hours (1-3ish) and is in bed from 7-7, but chats to himself regularly for an hour or two at night and has very recently started coming out of his room multiple times until 9pm. Prob time for us to drop the nap.

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Anonymous wrote:My 3.75 year is dropping his nap. How much sleep does your 3/4 year old get? What are their typical wake/bed times? He is only sleeping 11 hours which seems to be on the low end of normal.

2 hr nap after lunch + 10 hrs at night ( late bedtime 9 pm - 7 am)

4.5 YO and the above describes our schedule too.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine will be 4 soon and sleeps 7-7. Older child slept 8-7 + 2 hour nap literally until the week before starting Kindergarten. Each kid's sleep needs are different.

Our 4 yo dropped naps at around 2.5, it's been borderline daytime torture ever since. For a while about every 5-6 days he would nap (unintentionally). Pre-quarantine he was down by 9:30 and would sleep until about 8am. Since...he's a night owl that can stay up until 10:30 and some days won't rise until 11am! But if we wake him - he can be a nightmare. My 7 year old napped until just before kindergarten. They are different.

[Anonymous]

Mine (3.75) is usually down by 6:30 and awake at 4:45/5 (about 10-10.5 hours). He dropped his nap around 2. He slept a bit later pre-COVID because of preschool but not later than 6 am.

Napping is an issue as he basically has a set wake up point and no matter how late he sleeps, he’s up by 5. Napping (usually 45 minutes - 1 hour) causes him to lose sleep as then he won’t fall asleep until 8 but he’s still up at 5.

[Anonymous]

New 4, sleeps 730-6, sometimes 630.
Naps on accident (in the car, watching a movie, etc.) maybe once a week for an hour). Was pretty reliably napping 2 hours at school until it closed.