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

[TawnyHabenero]

Feral wild beasts at home that say NOOOO NEVER to naps.

Compliant little submissive creatures at nursery who will just lay down on a mat and go to sleep.

Is it just me or does it feel a bit sad, like they’re out of their comfort zone/inhibited at nursery that they just lie down and comply?

Or they’re just rascals with their parents and secretly they love to nap

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

Had a full busy morning at nursery playing and outside play…
Full up from lunch & pudding
Laying down comfy on a mat with a blankie in the dark

I struggled to stay awake many times as an adult

Lying down

like they’re out of their comfort zone/inhibited at nursery that they just lie down and comply

Going to hazard a guess that you've never stepped foot in a nursery during naps.

Another post shaming working parents. Okay then.

Eldest never stopped at nursery and needed the nap. Youngest has fomo and never napped. Youngest spent lots of time ‘helping’ with paperwork and doing jigsaws while the rest of the dc napped.

Incidentally eldest could be transferred from the car asleep, and the youngest woke as soon as the engine went off.

Ex nursery manager here.
They like to join in with what others are doing. Nursery staff have more time to devote to it and nursery is more tiring than home.

It's just their nursery routine. Being wild beasts at home is part of their home routine.

The only sad thing when you pick them is them falling asleep twenty minutes before you need to pick them up and you need to wake them. 😭 Then spending the fours hours until 6.30pm trying to placate a raging bull. 20 minute nap today. 😭

Completely off topic, but this feels like a good time for this meme. 😁

I don’t have any experience of this but I imagine part of is that not going to sleep can be a lot to do with not wanting to be separated from the parent or wanting to keep their attention, and at nursery those things are already out of play. I am not saying that is either good or bad, just that it’s a different situation.