to think there’s something a bit sad about toddlers napping so easily at nursery?

This has made me me giggle more than it's reasonable 😁

I think that the excitement of not being at home and spending the day with lots of other kids their age is much more exhausting than being at home because all of their senses are going to be at maximum.

Your words make it sound like their are scared of being told off or something where as they are more likely to copy their friends.

I'm OK with that. It's a very common error at risk of becoming endemic.

I think they’re more active at nursery than home and consequently more tired.

I think it's very rude to criticise/ridicule how someone else speaks! It makes them feel silly and makes you look rather dislikeable frankly!

Presumably, this means if they nap at nursery they are awake later to spend time with their parents.

If we're being judgemental, maybe they're not napping at home because you're letting them be feral, wild beasts instead

Our parents have told us that their kids can be pissed off at weekends because they can’t go to nursery, and a couple said their kids were sulking during their holidays abroad because they would rather be at nursery with their friends. 😂 So no, I don’t feel sorry for them. I just wish I could have a nap myself because it looks very cosy.

Mine only seldom. The teacher would lay her down 10 times and she would get up and wake up her friends. In the end she learned to at least keep quiet even if she didn´t sleep. She would rather die than nap, even though she may be falling uncouncious with tiredness.

After lunch in a dark room with lullaby music as the practitioner I often want to fall asleep 😴

That's a....take. I guess. I'd be more likely inclined to think it is the daily routine, what other kids are doing and the amount of stimuli they get in the daycare. Obviously the alternative is that they are beaten into submission and institutionalised to the point of compliance without free will.

There’s a trick to getting under 5s to nap whenever you want. It’s not magic or even the child’s decision half the time, it’s taught.

My kids are big on naps wherever they are. It’s lovely.

No, nothing sad about it. Children just respond really well to boundaries and routines-it makes them feel secure.
also my nursery team have magic powers to make children sleep.

Home has you! Why sleep when you can get your parent's attention?

Yes, how dreadful that these young free spirits comply and submit in a nursery setting. Clearly you should stay at home with yours and home ed them so they can stay free spirits and grow up to become trapeze artists rather than boring tax accountants.

I’m a nursery teacher but not in the UK. It’s about routine and also that they are pretty tired by all activities. Our children sleep outside in outdoor sleeping bags all year. They are also outside playing many hours a day, climbing trees and running around, or cycling. They sleep well.

Or they are appropriately stimulated and tired enough for a nap?

First of all you're his mum so much easier to say no to you than another adult. Also, they follow what the others are doing. Even if they don't sleep they lie down and rest.

I work in a pre-school, we take children from 2. We find the opposite. Children will nap at home but not with us. We don’t have a set nap time or area but if a child is tired we have big cushions they can lie on or they often fall asleep on us.

Neither of my kids were any good at napping at nursery either. My older one would try to make all the other kids laugh instead of go to sleep and so they had to keep her out of the room in the end 😬

My 3-year-old clearly still needs his nap. Refuses half the time, both at home and in nursery. Goes to sleep immediate in the car seat. Little rascal. I can't drive around for hours just to let him sleep!

It's more likely a case that yes it is part of the routine, it's quieter/ darker, their friends are lying down. Nursery is also very busy and stimulating so may need a break. However, If they really don't want to then they won't. Speaking as someone who works in a toddler room and as a parent of a toddler who has just refused to sleep in his bed for naps at home.

At nursery it’s all to do with routine, at our nursery the children know it’s lunchtime, quiet time, then nap time. It’s the routine they have followed since they started nursery and it works well.

i think most children just act up for their parents as these routines aren’t necessarily in place at home eg they might have an activity on, their friends aren’t there, they may have a late lunch or visitors at home so lots of distractions but at nursery they know the routine.

I think for mine they were just so busy at nursery. At home there are lots of moments of down time during the day but it is constant playing and interaction at nursery that it zapped them. Neither napped well at home. Eldest still has very happy memories of nursery and youngest loves going.