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[quote=Anonymous]8:30 is a fairly late bedtime, in my opinion.  If he doesn't take a nap, do you push it earlier?  Especially with the time change right now, you may need to move it up for a while.  I think 7-7:30 is more appropriate if possible.  Can you cook ahead of time and just heat up dinners that you premade?

I'd try doing stroller naps if you need to.  It's okay to do if you really need to and will at least get him some needed sleep.  If he does nap, do you have an easier or harder time with bedtime?  Some people find that kids go to bed easier when they aren't overtired (in my experience, my kids both fight sleep unless they are really tired, so it's sort of the opposite for us, but most people seem to feel the other way).

I think it's too early to drop that nap.  My kid started dropping his nap a little before turning 2.5, and it was truly too early.  I just couldn't get him to nap anymore most of the time, and like you, transitioning to a toddler bed made it impossible to keep him in bed long enough to go to sleep.  We tried things like me laying in the room with him or singing to him, etc., and it still only worked a few times a week.  I ended up driving him all over the place to get him to fall asleep, and that worked about 80% of the time but sometimes not at all.  It was very frustrating, and he was overtired a lot.  However, we both needed the break, so I'm glad that I did get him to sleep with driving naps sometimes (stroller naps never worked for him for some reason).  We got to the point where he was napping if I went for a drive about 80% of the time, and then it reduced to about 50% and then 25% by the time he was about 3.5, so we dropped the nap altogether.[/quote]

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