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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she is not cranky during the day, falling asleep in the car for short car trips, you probably have a low normal sleep needs kid.

None of my kids were asleep before 8pm on the dot. The daycare nap is stealing night time sleep.

I had to end my 3 year old's nap when I brought his baby sister home from the hospital and he was keeping me up at 10:30pm. [/quote]

She can be very cranky. And she’ll fall asleep in the car before we are out of the driveway. She also wakes up cranky if she doesn’t wake on her own. [/quote]
What are the delay tactics? [/quote]

Delay tactics are screaming, laying at the door and singing, climbing into older sibling’s bunk bed (he usually falls asleep in our bed to avoid this conflict), reading every book on the shelf, playing with stuffies, emptying any bin or drawer.

We are generally team wait it out unless it’s unsafe which sometimes it is. The door  knob is switched so it locks from the outside to keep her in. She’s not destructive but the room is definitely a mess after. We will have to start moving stuff out so there’s less interesting stuff to do.

We have been very intentional about family time and individual time after we get home. She’s getting at least two hours of family time and usually at least 30 individual time.

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