I know most children have dropped their naps by Pre-school age, but my daughter has always been a terrible sleeper.
She's now refusing to nap in the day (she's 3 yrs 2 mths). She screams and kicks when I pick her up to take her down to nap, shouting that she's not tired. She refuses to stay in bed. If I sit on the bed with her, she will eventually crawl back in and cover herself up, but I can be sat there an hour and she'll still not be asleep.
The problem is, that by 4pm she's exhausted. She's cranky and cries a lot and often won't eat dinner. Then at bedtime, she plays up and often wanders about saying she can't sleep (overtiredness). But here is the killer, because she doesn't eat dinner due to tiredness, she ends up waking up an hour early too, as well as the lack of nap and later bedtime.
We seem to be stuck in a vicious cycle at the moment, where she is getting less and less sleep, and is becoming more and more tired.
I'm not sure how to progress from here?
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cappyboppy · 06/11/2014 07:17
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