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[quote=Anonymous]It sounds like she is a SAHM.  If so, then your sense of whether or not he needs a nap may not be accurate.  The problem with kids that age is that they often only need a nap a few days a week, so you have a few choices:

1) Have mandatory quiet time and figure they will sleep if they need to—this does not work if you have a kid who is active and a bad sleeper.  They will find ways to keep themselves awake every day and then have massive meltdowns on the days when they needed the nap but missed it.

2) Move to no nap.  Accept that this will mean an earlier bedtime (maybe meaning working parent gets little or even no time with kid on weekdays), and that the kid will have a lot of behavioral issues that n the days when he needed to nap.

3) Enforce naps daily.  Build your schedule around inducing a nap as many days as possible.  This means you may be trapped with the kid for an hour or two every day but if your plan for that time is to rest then it may not matter.[/quote]

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