When did your DC give up their nap?

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I have DS who is 2.5, and for the last 2 weeks he has been totally refusing a nap. He'll go to bed quite happily but will just lie there singing and generally faffing about. I know the nap can't go on forever sob but he seems to really need it, as he's then really tired and struggling to hold it together by 4pm. Do I just keep persisting in the hope it's a blip?

I remember mine both having these blips. But they came back to napping. Ds only stopped at about 4.5 and dd is 2.9 and sleeping now.

Thank you Iggly-music to my ears

Mine stopped at 22 months and never went back to it!

2.5 - the same week her sister was born, which might've had something to do with it.

Mine both stopped at 18 months and very rarely slept after that. If I was lucky they might have dropped off in the car, but never just napped.

DS is nearly 4 and has 3 naps a week - Mon/Wed/Fri. He just starts to lose it otherwise. Maybe try every other day?

What time are you putting him down?

DS1 gave up at 2.6 at the same time we took the sides off his cotbed. He just wouldn't sleep in the bed during the day. There were a few months of stroppy tiredness but we eventually got over it by making sure we did important stuff in the morning and veg out a bit in the afternoon with a dvd and some toys. If I really needed him to nap a bit (if we needed to be out later for instance) I went for a drive. That sent him to sleep quite quickly for a while. Doesn't work anymore now he's just-4. He doesn't need it now.

Mine were about 4 years old when they stopped the lunchtime nap.

If your DS is 2.5, bear in mind that he will be starting nursery soon (?), which may well tire him out. I would hold on to the nap until he's started nursery just incase.

mine all gave it up around age 2

but for the first few months we had a quiet time after lunch, stuck on a dvd and about 3 days per week they would fall asleep.

dd2 used to get very tired and nothing would make her nap, (aged 2-3 )so i used to stick her in the car and drive, she was gone in less than 5 minutes.

DD - 22 months. Never missed it despite having been a solid two hour napper, and if she does fall asleep in the day, if she has more than half an hour she's up for ages at bedtime causing chaos. She's 26 months now. We actually had to stop them after weeks and weeks of her being up til 9pm every night yelling and waking up DS....we had one bad day when they stopped and that was it. But we do have 'quiet time' every day after lunch and again I'm winding her down at 4.30pm in time for dinner & bath. She'd still be napping and staying up until 9pm at night if she had her way I'm sure.

DS is 15 months and I hope he naps on longer than his sister.

about 2.9. Replaced it with either a DVD or snuggling in my bed with stories. I thought my world had ended when her nap stopped and I resisted it for a while but actually it made things a lot more flexible not having to be home for The Nap.

Started at a new nursery when she was a little over three and it just didn't suit their style, it quickly disappeared at home too.

Thanks all-some good suggestions. filthiestpersonalive, sorry I should've mentioned that we also have DD 3 months, which may be affecting him. Rumbelina I like that idea and might try it. Travelling Toad it was about 1pm, but I think I could maybe try slightly later for a shorter nap. In the end I piled them both into the double buggy and before we'd even got to the end of the road DS was asleep!

My ds is 22mo and I'm going through the same thing . He's always fought his naps anyway but recently I've been not bothering forcing him and he's going to sleep much better at night .

Before I had to force a nap or otherwise he would fall asleep at 5pm then be up til 11pm but now he just powers through and sleeps 7pm-7am . Much better !

About 2.5 but she probably had a nap every other day or it was a bit horrendous really. She started afternoon nursery 2 months after turning 3 so we had to train her up to it really.
Weirdly a "sofa snooze" was way more acceptable than an actual nap in bed. We put DD2 to bed for her Gina prescribed two hours and then DD1 has a quiet story on the sofa in a slightly darkened room. She only slept for about an hour or 45 mins but it was enough to keep her civilised

These days [she's 4] if she's knackered she'll sidle off and put herself to bed in the full knowledge that we won't allow it otherwise she'd be awake until 10pm

2.7 and she still generally has a nap but it's starting to fade. I find if she's not been doing something physical in the morning she's less likely to nap. Also it's pushed back until at least 2ish now. I've started putting the gro-clock on for naptime if I think she might fight it, and that has actually worked - last time she didn't want to sleep she did at least stay in bed (the benefits if still having the cot sides up ) and chat quietly for the better part of an hour.

I'm feeling about short-changed here. DD was about 18 months. She might sleep in the car now, but a sleep in the daytime means very late to bed. On a brighter note at least that means I've got an excuse for no housework on my day off!

DD rarely napped in the day by the time she had turned 2y. Wasn't every day for quite a while before that.

But certainly some children do keep their naps til much later. We have some new EYFS starters at school this year who were still having their afternoon naps until the end of this summer.

DS1 about 12/13 months unless on a long drive in the car. Absolute nightmare.
DS2 slept solidly for two hours every afternoon until about 3. I had learnt my lesson with DS1 however and "trained" him to do this.

Ds is almost 4 and still naps some days given a chance.

4.2 (and starting school) for dd1. Dd2 is still napping most days at 3yo. About once a week she won't sleep, but will play with teddies / look at books on her room until her Groclock sun comes up. Which is better than the days I have to wake her up for the school run, she wakes up very slowly and is incredibly grumpy.