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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My almost 4 year old puts up SUCH a fight over bedtime.  She was doing great prepandemic.  Would nap 1.5 hours at daycare, then went to bed at 840 with no struggle.  Then pandemic, and she stopped napping but she would go to bed at 8.  Now she's back in daycare and napping for 1-1.5 hours there.  But she will not even GO to bed until 9-915.  She wakes up at 7-745 each morning.  How do I at least get her to try to go to sleep at a normal time?  [/quote]
OP, re-read your post and there's only one conclusion...it's the nap. Most parents with kids in daycare experience this. The nap is a requirement and you will have a hard time getting the providers to change. It's a constant struggle over who gets the downtime, you or the daycare. The daycare loves having the 1-2 hours of kids sleeping and some of them need it. However, the "one size fits all" approach doesn't work for the kids who no longer need a nap. You just have to get through this.

FWIW, we told our kid not to sleep during his nap time and it sort of worked out.[/quote]

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