My kid is not quite 3.5. He dropped his nap when we went into quarantine (and we're one of those unlucky families that had to do a real, 14 day no one in or out of the house quarantines), right at mid-March. He sleeps 7 pm to 6 am. To avoid bedtime meltdowns, we have to start bedtime routine at 6:15, and even then he's sometimes just too tired to not freak out about, say, brushing his teeth.

Before all this, when he was getting lots of active play time at daycare, he slept 8 to 6 with a 1.5-2 hour nap.

My just turned 4 year is in bed by 8pm and wakes around 7am. Sometimes she naps for about an 1 hour, but mostly doesn't nap.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine will turn 4 in October, too. She sleeps about 12 hours a night and takes a 2-hour nap every day.

Sounds great.

Does she have a lot of physical activities?

How do you encourage this schedule?, tell us your secret.

As the mom to two kids with low sleep needs, I just want to gently weigh in that sometimes this is just a specific child's sleep needs and habits. My relationship with my kids' sleep improved dramatically when I chose to just accept it rather than try to fit it into a mold I wanted.

Seconding. Neither of my two children ever slept as much as they were "supposed to". Both are very active and we have a rock-solid schedule. They were super alert from birth - I laugh when I hear "but newborns just sleep all the time" comments because my kids were never like that.

Anonymous wrote:DD is 4.5. She dropped her nap at 3 5. She's been sleeping 11 hours a night since then.

This about the same as me. Daughter officially dropped nap at 3. Goes to sleep at about 7:30 pm (used to stay up playing in her bed until 9 pm when she took a nap) and wakes up between 6:30 and 7:15 am. We still do a quiet time in the afternoon, which seems like an important rest for her, even if she's not sleeping.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine will turn 4 in October, too. She sleeps about 12 hours a night and takes a 2-hour nap every day.

Sounds great.

Does she have a lot of physical activities?

How do you encourage this schedule?, tell us your secret.

I want to ask this PP if she actually watches her child on a monitor to see if she's sleeping. Our video monitor broke when my daughter was about a year old, and we didn't get another video monitor until we had a baby when DD was 2.5. We set up the camera in her room and realized a lot of the time she was just quietly playing with stuffed animals, rolling around in bed, etc., but a lot of the time I thought she was sleeping.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine will turn 4 in October, too. She sleeps about 12 hours a night and takes a 2-hour nap every day.

Sounds great.

Does she have a lot of physical activities?

How do you encourage this schedule?, tell us your secret.

As the mom to two kids with low sleep needs, I just want to gently weigh in that sometimes this is just a specific child's sleep needs and habits. My relationship with my kids' sleep improved dramatically when I chose to just accept it rather than try to fit it into a mold I wanted.

Anonymous wrote:Mine will turn 4 in October, too. She sleeps about 12 hours a night and takes a 2-hour nap every day.

Sounds great.

Does she have a lot of physical activities?

How do you encourage this schedule?, tell us your secret.

My 3.75yo DD still naps most days but not for very long. Some days, not at all (she'll lay quietly in her room but won't sleep). I think she's on the verge of dropping her nap completely. At night she's in bed no later than 7:30pm and usually wakes up around 6am, so she's sleeping 10.5-11 hours. She's wiped out by the end of the day. We've tried different things to encourage her to take good naps but nothing works. We even adjusted nap time to different times in the day thinking that she was overtired and unable to fall asleep for her nap, but it didn't seem to matter.

My oldest was still taking long naps every day at this age.

DD is 4.5. She dropped her nap at 3 5. She's been sleeping 11 hours a night since then.

Mine will turn 4 in October, too. She sleeps about 12 hours a night and takes a 2-hour nap every day.

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Anonymous wrote:My 3.75 year is dropping his nap. How much sleep does your 3/4 year old get? What are their typical wake/bed times? He is only sleeping 11 hours which seems to be on the low end of normal.

2 hr nap after lunch + 10 hrs at night ( late bedtime 9 pm - 7 am)

same here. Kid is 3.5

Anonymous wrote:My 3.75 year is dropping his nap. How much sleep does your 3/4 year old get? What are their typical wake/bed times? He is only sleeping 11 hours which seems to be on the low end of normal.

2 hr nap after lunch + 10 hrs at night ( late bedtime 9 pm - 7 am)

Anonymous wrote:Mine is the same age as yours, will be 4 in Oct. She dropped her nap about 3 months ago. She sleeps 11-11.5 hours a night. I wish she still napped because it's clear that she's exhausted by the end of the day but oh well. There's only so much we can do you know? I establish and enforce healthy bedtime habits, the rest is up to her.

Oh and to answer your q, she is asleep by 6:30 or 7 and wakes up by 5:30 or 6. Pre COVID when she was at daycare until 5 or so, that whole schedule was shifted 30 to 60 min later. Bedtime keeps creeping up because I get sick of her earlier in the day now 😄

Mine is the same age as yours, will be 4 in Oct. She dropped her nap about 3 months ago. She sleeps 11-11.5 hours a night. I wish she still napped because it's clear that she's exhausted by the end of the day but oh well. There's only so much we can do you know? I establish and enforce healthy bedtime habits, the rest is up to her.

My 3.75 year is dropping his nap. How much sleep does your 3/4 year old get? What are their typical wake/bed times? He is only sleeping 11 hours which seems to be on the low end of normal.