To leave my toddler 2.4 years sleeping

[Lucie99]

My DS has been asleep for his afternoon nap for 2.5 hours and still going strong. Just recently he hasn't been taking a nap at all but today I coerced him into napping by allowing him into Mummy's bed. I've had a lovely afternoon catching up on jobs surfing the internet and tonight I'm going on a rare night out with friends to the pub. I therefore know that I won't have to deal with DS being up late tonight . I suspect I am being a little unreasonable as DH will have to cope with a rather lively toddler while I'm out drinking

Never wake a sleeping child is my motto...

If your DH is being left to deal with getting him off later YANBU

It'll be quality bonding time for them

He must need it tbh. Leave him, he'll be fine.

are you mad? Leave him to sleep and all the better that you won't be around when he's up until 10 tonight. If your DH asks just say he had about an hour........

I've left DD to nap for four hours before! She's unusual though in that she'll still go to bed on time after doing it.

I NEVER wake sleeping children because I'm not mad

This is a win-win situation.

Unless you are your DH.

Defiantly leave the sleeping child, but only if your not the one on night duty..thinking about it you will have a sore head in the morning so surely a late night for dc is a lay in for the morning?

Just hope your Ds isn't still awake when you get home from your night out!

i have a toddler about the same age i like him to have a nap if ,i,m on a late shift [am a nurse] cos i i can have a nice little nap with him if dh on a late shift though i dont like him having a nap cos he will go to bed at 7pm as opposed to 9,930 [ with nap] selfish i know!

Ha ha, I wickedly used to do this. I work nights and would rather selfishly leave my DS to nap longer than I should have done so I could rest before a night shift. Of course this meant he settled later but I wasn't home to deal with it, DP was. Shhh, don't tell him!

Brilliant - leave him be or he'll wake up in a strop. Then tell DH he's only been asleep an hour. Win-win!

Some kids (I've heard tell) actually sleep better when they've napped in the afternoon, or is this an urban myth? My kids neither napped nor slept at night, unfortunately, but my friends kids worked on the basis of the more they got, the more they needed iyswim. I'm a bit like that myself

i worked nights for three years so get where your coming from and if have left lo sleeping for rather longer than i should have done i tell dh he has had less than an hour not my problem if i,m at work!

Never nap past 4 pm is my motto!

Aren't we a wicked bunch? My DCs no longer sleep during the day, not so great at night either. I am only home 4 nights out of 7 though. I sleep during the day, when they are at school. I get the better end of the deal (when it isn't school hols anyway).

yabu! wake him up! but after you have done your hair and make up!

I think leaving your toddlers sleeping for 2.4 year is a little excessive.