When did your child drop their nap

[Anonymous]

2.5yo DD is fighting her nap big time. It does not help that her 2 older siblings are home since school is out. I know she needs her nap but it is so hard to get her down.

[Anonymous]

One was north of 4 when he gave them up altogether, and one was barely past 1.

[Anonymous]

A little before three. Mainly because he wouldn’t fall asleep at night until 9 or 10. Dropping the nap was glorious!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One was north of 4 when he gave them up altogether, and one was barely past 1.

Exactly same.

[Anonymous]

Mine will be 4 in a month. She will fall asleep on the floor most days if we don’t let her nap.

[Anonymous]

Age 3.

[Anonymous]

Shortly after turning 4.

[Anonymous]

Shortly after turning 3, but he is about to turn 4 and has recently started wanting to lay down in the afternoons again and sometimes falls asleep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2.5yo DD is fighting her nap big time. It does not help that her 2 older siblings are home since school is out. I know she needs her nap but it is so hard to get her down.

Oldest the summer after he turned 4.
Youngest the summer after he turned 2.

It was the same summer.

[Anonymous]

He stopped taking a weekday afternoon nap on the first day of kindergarten. He dropped the weekend afternoon nap around Christmas that year (so 5.5).

The first year was rough—he was going to bed at 6:30pm several nights per week (waking up at 7 am).

[Anonymous]

Mine is still taking a 2-2.5 hr nap at 3.5 every day. Falls asleep by 8:45. Lights out is 8:20pm or so.

[Anonymous]

Summer before kindergarten for #1 and we’re in the middle
Of summer before kindergarten for #2, she sleeps about half the time, the rest we don’t even try.

[Anonymous]

Mine was ~4.75

I think American kids give up their nap sooner (2.5-3.5 seems to be average) because of their schedules, insistence on early bedtime/long evening sleep, not cosleeping, not having the same schedules as their parents, etc. Not a judgment, but I think it’s more biologically natural and common in most cultures and through history for kids to take a nap until 5/6/7 if not their whole lives!

[Anonymous]

4.5 and I think having his baby sister home sped up the timeline bc he felt he was missing out (as if we were doing something fun instead of me BFing on the couch and trying to sleep myself).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine was ~4.75

I think American kids give up their nap sooner (2.5-3.5 seems to be average) because of their schedules, insistence on early bedtime/long evening sleep, not cosleeping, not having the same schedules as their parents, etc. Not a judgment, but I think it’s more biologically natural and common in most cultures and through history for kids to take a nap until 5/6/7 if not their whole lives!

What did your child’s typical day look like? Just curious. We tend to put our 2.5 year old to bed at 8:30-9 and he gets up around 6:30, so he does still nap.