Still has daytime nap at 3.3yrs - not that i am not ungrateful

[hebetalbot]

My DD is 3.3yrs and still has a daytime nap from 2ish to 4.30ish. I feel very fortunate to have a break during the day but what i was wandering whether it is normal. She goes to bed at 8pm (so she can spend time with DH). The reason I ask is that alot of my friends have with children of the same age are really suprised that she still sleeps and think it is very unusual.

DS2 is 4 and he has a sleep roughly every other day (sometimes more often if he's tired), for 2 hours. He gets up at 7-8 am and goes to bed 7.30-8pm. If he doesn't have his sleeps he is a horror and will often drift of himself at 4 ish and even 5 minutes that late makes it difficult to get him to sleep at bedtime! I am now trying to 'wean' him off of his sleeps gently as in September he will start afternoon nursery so will have no choice! None of my friends have children who have napped past about age 3 and many have stopped much younger than that.
DS1 was the same when he was smaller and even now I occassionally give DS1 a nap on a Saturday (he's 6.8) as he is always exhausted after a long week at school and he's in a much better mood afterwards!

Sounds wonderful. My ds1 napped until 18mnths and stopped napping everyday just as ds2 came along, but still needed naps every so often. Ds2 on the other hand stopped napping as soon as he turned 18mnths . He realised that big brother had gone to nursery and so he made the most of having mummy around. Sometimes at the weekend though we all still grab a quick lie down together. It's wonderful.

hebetalbot - only restrictive because DS is the same age and doesn't want to nap, and because they stay with us.... quite liberating for you, though - I would imagine! I seem to remember finding reasons to be in the car mid-afternoon for a while after DS stopped napping - he would "power-nap" in the car - even 15 mins made all the difference in stopping him getting grumpy.

I think I would do the same exbury