Toddler naps

[surfingwolf]

When do you know it's time to drop the day time naps?

DC2 (and a half-ish if it makes a difference) still naps but his bedtime has been pushed back by an hour recently. He's happy to nap, doesn't fight it and has a good 1-1.5hours. With bedtime he's happy to go to bed and lays there singing or talking to himself until he drops off.

Recently he's been coming out of nursery still full of beans where as a few months back he was tired and ready for sleep.

I'm thinking it's time to stop the naps but I don't want to get to 4-5o'clock and have to deal with a little terror until bedtime so just wondered what to look for or when is usual for daytime naps to be dropped before I start the trial and error phase.

Hi mine is 22 months and not in nursery yet,he has nap afyer lunch every day,i let him kip only for about 30 mins,any longer than that or if i get him to sleep later on like after 2 pm he is a nightmare to go to sleep at night. So maybe shorten his nap time slowly

For us it was a combination of them refusing to sleep at nap time, meaning it got pushed back later and so I had to cut it short. Or they’d take a long nap and then they wouldn’t go to sleep at night. Once them being awake til 9pm (happy in room, but awake) was a regular thing I knew the naps needed to go. We just moved bedtime forward to compensate and capped naps at 45 min if they did fall asleep. It probably took a few months to transition but both my kids were around 2.5 when they did. Can be a bit challenging around dinner time while they adjust but we just pushed through

My DD is now 3 and basically sleeps 7-7 with no nap

What time is bedtime in the evening?

Ours is about 8pm

We put him down around 7 (although this is becoming more like 7:30 because he's quite happy to be awake) and he's usually asleep between 8:00 and 8:30. He's happy though, if he was crying I would have considered dropping naps before now.

He's never been one to randomly fall asleep where he's playing. Even when he's tired he won't sleep anywhere apart from his bed so unless we take him to bed he will just carry on playing until he's told otherwise. He doesn't tantrum either he's a very chilled, go-with-the-flow child so it's hard to tell when he is actually tired.