Just a spin off question about what age your child stopped having a day nap regularly?

My DS is going to be 3 next month and Im still encouraging a day nap as he can get a bit grumpy without one. But I've noticed that he can go through til about 2pm or later quite easily and I don't want him napping that late as then he's not tired enough for bedtime at 7:30pm.

Often Im finding that 15 - 20 mins nap in the car is enough to get him through the afternoon now.

So I thought I'd see generally what age other peoples kids stopped napping.

Thanks.

We stopped H's at 2.5yrs as if he had a sleep during the day he wouldn't go to bed till 10.30 at night.

A is still having one sometimes, 20 minutes in the car is ideal but if he has one at home or preschool we get him up after an hour otherwise he won't go till bed till really late.

Adelaide is 20 months and is dropping her day sleep.

It's killing me!

Ry is 3 in 2 weeks and still NEEDS his nap. He goes down around 1pm for a few hours usually 3 hrs. We have skipped it before for special events eg birthdays, easter but we are pulling our hair out by late afternoon. We leave functions and plan days around the nap still just because its a horrible evening wihtout it. Ry goes to bed at 8pm up around 630am.

Koby is 4 1/2 and Blair is 2 1/2, Koby still has a day sleep on his pre school days and I encourage Blair to have day sleeps on those days as well.

They will sometimes have day sleeps at home on other days as well, but they don't have one every day, but I do encourage them to have some kind of rest/quiet time every day.

When they do have a day sleep, I have to limit the time they sleep though, otherwise they're up until after 9pm that night.

Liam was 3 back in March.

Most of the time at home he doesnt have a nap at all. He does have a sleep at daycare (Thurs/Fri) He usually has a 1-1.5hr sleep there. If we are out and about in the car or on a long drive he will sleep too. Occasionally I will find him on the loungeroom floor sound asleep (usually later in the arvo like 3pm) but most of the time he will still be in bed at 8pm.

He has been really grumpy the last few nights so I dont know if that is because he is just so tired, but anything earlier that 8pm is just too early for him and he would be up at 5am. I like not having to get up till 6.30am.

Cate had a sleep every day until she was around 3. We had periods of her not sleeping every day but she always went back to sleeping every day. Her sleeps then dwindled but she still slept 2 or 3 days a week until she was around 4 years old. She still had an hour in her room for rest time every day though regardless of whether she actually slept. Even now at 4.5 I still make her go into my bedroom for 45-60min every day for quiet time to watch a DVD.

Charlie is almost 2.5 and still has a sleep every day at home. He goes down at 1:40/45 and sleeps until 3pm. I wake him at 3pm to ensure he goes to bed at 7pm. He doesn't always go straight to sleep but happily chats to himself so it doesn't bother me. I can see him giving it up for good earlier than Cate did though.

Charlie, however, does not sleep at daycare anymore. He is there 2 days a week but the sleep time is just far too early for him (11:30/12pm vs 1:45 at home). So I think those 2 days of not sleeping helps him still sleep for the days he is home.

Consistent day napping started decreasing at approx 2yo for both of them. By the third birthday we were down to one or two a week with eldest son, and I think his sister will follow suit.

I'm a big fan of the 20 minute bridging nap myself.

Nate gave up his regular day sleep at 28 months, he still naps in the car on occasion, especially after swimming lessons.
Dane is 26 months and he has started to drop it, if at home I still put him in his room and he either sleeps or plays quietly. If we are out and about he will nap in the car on the way home.

My eldest will be three at the end of next month and he still has a nap everyday. At daycare it is about 1.5 hours at home it can be longe. Lately at home he is pushing the line when it is time to sleep, but as I am so tired from being up at night with our baby, I tell him mummy needs a nap and he has to stay in bed. Most times he wil yabba away, flick through a book and fall asleep.

He is still in bed asleep by 8 at the latest (daddy pushes this out) and atm sleeping in til about 7.

Caitlin is 3 1/2 and is the same, always had periods where she wouldn't sleep but always went back to it in the end when I persisted. She can make it through the day without one but it builds up. At the moment she does 4 days of daycare and the three days at home she has a nap of at least 2hrs. She will not nap at daycare as no one else in her room does anymore. But when she's home from daycare or we're on holidays she will have one too. She goes to bed at 730pm without a problem at night.

I apparently had a sleep of some length until I started school.

Will is nearly 4 and half and still naps some days. Last year in the 3 year old room at daycare they still napped (and he tended not to need a nap on his home days as much) and when they moved up to the kinder room he struggled without the sleep for a few weeks (he also went from 2 days to 3 days). One of his friends was similar.

Now he will nap 2 or 3 days a week depending on what he's been doing. He'll usually have one on Wednesday after swimming and one on the weekend (is home Fri/Sat/Sun).

Angus is 2.5 and naps at daycare but is going through a phase where he is not daynapping. Despite not having daysleeps - he has still been awake till 10pm some nights. The day he had a daysleep last night ended up being the earliest he went to sleep at night! I know we went through similar phases with Will but I felt he still needed the chance to nap so we stuck with it and he always went back to having a day sleep.

Raya stopped the day naps before she was 4 - she still needed them for a little bit and if we go in the car for a drive to the shops she sometimes still falls asleep depending on what we have done during the day eg swimming.

Even aged three if I could get her to sleep she would sleep for 2.5 hrs.

We were fortunate that even staying asleep to say 5pm never affected her going back down at 7.30pm or 8pm for bed.

Chelley you ARE lucky indeed! Mine have to up by 3.30pm at the latest or bedtime won't happen until 8.30 - 9pm.

Cate dropped her day sleep the week Seamus came home from hospital so about a week before she turned two. It was annoying BUT it did mean she started going to bed very early (6.30pm) and with zero fuss which was a lovely trade off.

Seamus is 19 months and has days where I can't get a day sleep out of him. He needs a later sleep time of 1 - 2pm...and, like I said above, I have to get him back up by 3.30pm at the latest in order in ensure he's ready for bed again by 6.30pm.

Like Windsor, my mum tells me that we had day sleeps until we went to school...so even in kinder (4 years old) we would still have a day sleep. She had four kids under five so I think she did this to save her sanity She firmly believes all little ones need a day sleep...and wouldn't you know it, my kids sleep with gay abandon when at Granny's (and often do 13 hour stretches overnight too...it astounds me!!). When Cate dropped her day sleep a girlfriend did suggest I persist despite her protests....her theorry was that if you can survive the protesting stage (2 - 3 weeks) you'll get another year or two of day sleeps out of the kids. Two of the girls from my MG did this and their three and a half year olds still day sleep so perhaps there is something to the theory?

My two are still having a day sleep sometimes, although this past week they have had one 5 days in a row (birthday hangover? sugar crash? I'm not complaining! Maybe I've persisted long enough and they will go back to having one again).

I insist on a quiet time everyday and often they will drift off. I don't often let them sleep more than an hour and a half these days but Nick is difficult to get to go to sleep and then he won't wake up! He is also least able to cope without a sleep but more resistant to the idea - Liam will often ask to go to sleep and will cry if Nick won't let him. Up until Christmas time they were having a sleep of around three hours, every single day.

It's hard, this last stage before dropping the day sleep. Nick refused to have a sleep after swimming last week and was such a little a-hole for the rest of the day. He screamed non stop for the last 90 minutes of the day until his dad got home, at which point we punted him straight to bed. Oh how I wish you could reason with an overtired toddler/preschooler!

I must concur!

I do everything I can to get that toddler to nap. That usually means the remaining 3 of us (4 on w'ends) rearrange our entire day to make sure she gets that opportunity to drift off

Both my toddlers view(ed) day sleeps like your Nick seems to. I can get anxious facing an afternoon if she hasn't had it. I was the same with her brother at the same age too. Damn these wretched transitional phases hey

Jack stopped his day nap at 3 and a half. I was so upset! I used to nap with him, but it was suddenly gone. He went from having a 4 hour nap to nothing. No withdrawal, just stopped.

Luke still has his nap. He's just turned 3