please advise me should I stop my dd nap in the daytime she will be 2 in jan please please help me.

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I dont know what to do about my daughter she sleeps in the day for 2.5 hours if not more and tonight its 9.00pm and she is crying and banging in her cot ,she shares a room with my son who sleeps in our bed all the time should I stop her daytime naps, so that I can put her to bed at 7pm and him at 8pm back in his room and reawrd him with a star chart he is 4 please advice me.xx

From my experience DD's bedtimes got so much easier when I cut back her nap. The problem was she is an early riser so really needed it so i didn't 't cut it out completely until she was ready to drop it. I would cut it to 1.5 hour. I found that no sleeping after 2PM helped as well. Its a horrible transition phase going from nap to no nap. Hope you get it sorted.

all children are different. DD doesn't need that much sleep (sadly). She is up at around 5.30, goes to bed at 7.30 and doesn't have a nap so she only really needs 10 or sometimes 11 hours. Some of my friend's DC still have a nap and go 12 hours at night.

DD is 2.8 and I have just dropped her nap, as she was shouting til 9.30/10pm often. So far, so good, has been asleep by 8.30 last few nights and not up til 8.20-8.40am!

Am now going to try bringing bedtime forward a bit more and see how it goes - I don't need her to stay in bed that late as A) She is starting some pre school sessions after Christmas, and b) I am up with DS before then anyway so would rather have the peace in the evening

However she is bloody vilepretty horrible from about 4pm til bedtime so I think she is still getting used to it.

I would hang on to that nap for as long as possible! I agree with posters who recommend ealier nap time. Or if she is not tired earlier, then go for an abridged nap - say 45 mins to 1 hour max. That way, if shenaps from say 1 - 2pm then she should be tired enough to go to sleep around 7 (or whatever her usual time is).

We are all singing from the same hymn book - you just need to make it work for you and yours.