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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How exactly do kids drop their nap? You have to make them nap. You make them.

My oldest only napped for 45 min since she was a newborn. She was very low energy as a toddler. And she truly did not need to nap anymore around 24 months. She has low sleep needs. I think it does have something to do with energy level. Her behavior never changed with it without naps. At 2.5 she would stay up till midnight without a nap and act completely normal.

My youngest will nap for longer. She needs to nap or we notice behavioral changes in the afternoon. She gets a little loopy. She gets impulsive. She loses the desire to want to behave appropriately. It’s something only her caregiver would notice and put together.

That being said, she fights her naps. She would love if I threw in the towel. She will not fall asleep in her crib on her own. I literally hold her down in my bed until she falls asleep. Every single day.

I could very easily say she’s given up her nap and institute quiet time instead. But her behavior in the afternoon would suffer. So I don’t. She is super high energy. 2.5 and does not stop talking or moving unlesss she’s playing on the iPad.  Info suspect she will eventually be evaluated for adhd.

Older sister has a high IQ BTW which I’ve read loosely correlates with low sleep needs. Loosely. [/quote]

I think  we all draw the line in different places. You don't want the behavior to suffer because child drops the nap. But I, personally, could not handle my preschoolers staying up until 11 or midnight. I really would lose my mind. Plus, the vicious cycle would begin on the next day, when, exhausted from having stayed up until midnight, they would have to be woken up in the morning--and then their behavior would be worse than ever. For me, the not napping-little bit of fussiness-early bedtime was the preferable solution.

To the OP: I wouldn't be surprised if there were some correlation to the early nap dropping-ADHD--there are definitely sleep issues overall in a high percentage of ADHD kids--but there is no way you can draw a conclusion from it. It wouldn't make sense statistically. By the way, my two kids with ADHD. One used to take hours to fall asleep and now takes melatonin. The other falls asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow. They are thirteen and eleven and they both still get 10 and often 11 hours of sleep every day. Kids are very different.[/quote]

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