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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are missing her sleep window. Move the the time back 5 minutes every night until you find the sweet spot. Many 4 year olds don’t need that nap or quiet time. I actually skipped a great preschool because they included a THREE hour nap for 4 year olds, and the havoc that would wreak on our evenings wasn’t worth it.

So find the sweet spot. We used to literally not bother to put our kids to bed if we missed the window. So if their bedtime was 8, and for whatever reason they weren’t in bed by then, we waited until 9:30 for the next cycle. Sounds crazy, but trying to force them into bed at 8:30 meant them rolling around and talking until 11.[/quote]

OP here : funny you say this but we are actually leaving our daycare and going to a preschool this fall with a drastically reduced 30 min quiet time for this main reason. I've tried to figure out her sleep windows to no avail - if we put her down at 7 she's up at 3am wanting to have a deep conversation about how many stars are in the sky. I'll try to back it up a few minutes tonight and see if that helps. [/quote]

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