Remind me please- when did your DC give up their nap?

[thefabfour]

DC3 (almost 2yrs) is screaming upstairs as I type. He usually goes for an afternoon nap for 2 hrs but has refused to go to bed for the last hour.

Is this the end of my two hours 'off'?

DD stopped just after her 2nd birthday. My two other DC carried on until they were about 3.

my dd2 is nearly 2 and very rarely naps in the day , Though she does go down at 7 at night cause of my sanity. I look forward to 7 at night. Quite lucky she goes to sleep straight away. Given up trying to put her to bed in the day, she would have no voice left and i think the neighbours would think shes being murdered !!

ds1 - 2.5
ds2 - hes 3.5 now and just nodded off has a nap most days for about an hour. seems to really need it still.

I can't remember with DS.
DD gave up having a nap every day when she was about 2 and a half but has started just recently to have one again every so often(she's just turned 3).

DD just gave hers up at 2yrs 2months. I was gutted! We have 'quiet time' instead - which means she demolishes her room and I sit in the corner with my laptop and ignore the chaos

DD1 about 2 1/2
DD2 just over 2 but she was staying up past 9 every night singing in her cot now she is asleep in about 2 minutes flat.

Can't remember with either DS or DD. Although DS was 22 months when DD was born and I am sure his naps stopped soon afterwards.

DD is 2.6 and hasn't had a regular daytime nap for ages and ages. Probably almost a year.

DS1 nearly 3
DS2 more like 2

dd is 2.3 and not had a daytime sleep for about 3 weeks.when she did sleep in the day, she wouldnt settle to sleep till about 10, so stopped it and now goes to bed at 7 on the dot.
she would only go to sleep in the car in the day, so i made sure we dont go in the car for any amount of time, so she doesnt sleep.

my friends ds, 2.6 still sleeps in the day for over an hour, and goes to bed a 6.30.

each to their own!

Thanks everyone for your quick responses.

Think I might have to accept that this may be the beginning of the end of his nap.

Dd had hers until 3 1/2 or so, but ds couldn't be made to nap for long after his second birthday. 5 years later, he still needs less sleep than her though he is 31/2 years younger.

The good news is, as they grow older they don't take all your time when they're awake, and you aren't not wasting all that time trying to get them to sleep.

before their second birthdays. All of mine have started with 6pm bnedtimes though.

Ds is 3 and still needs nap most days

About 14 months dammit.

ds1 stopped around his second birthday. Only difference it made was that bedtime (as in sleep time) was reliably around 9 instead of sometimes stretching out until 10. He's at kindergarten now and goes to bed between 8 and 9. Will add he has always been a reasonable riser, usually waking between 7 and 8. He just does not seem to need all that much sleep.

DS1 stopped at almost exactly 2 years 6 months I remember because it was 2 weeks after DS2 was born. He did still want to rest though and as we had a new baby in the house we got through a lot of afternoon movies.

DD is 3.10 and still sometimes has a 2 hour nap. It is not all fantastic though because on the other days she can get terribly tired and grumpy.

She is usually pretty bad on a Friday because she is at day nursery Tues-Thurs and does not have a nap there. Then Friday morning she has swimming but I quite often put her down for a nap afterwards. This Friday a friend invited her to soft play in the afternoon so she didn't have a nap. About 5.30 pm I was cooking, and popped through to find DH and DS playing a noisy game of football on the PS2 and DD sat on DH's lap with his arms and controller around her asleep.

And today she fell asleep in the car on the way back from shopping and I carried into the house and put her on the settee with a blanket and I think she probably had about 45 mins. Then tonight I got her ready for bed while DS was at Beavers and left her sat on her bed looking at books while I answered the door when DS was dropped off, went back upstairs and she was curled up asleep before 7.30.

I am toying with taking her to the Drs.

If this is the first time your ds has refused his nap maybe it's just a blip- to go from 2 hrs to nothing at sounds a bit unfair of him . Maybe tomorrow you could try leaving it until an hour later for naptime and only allowing him an hour? (so he wakes at the same time as he would have done from a 2 hr nap iyswim)

DS is 3.4 and will sleep for 2.5 hours if I let him. Bed time is 8pm and he gets up at about 6.30. I prefer to limit naps to an hour if I can because he goes to bed much better.

If he doesn't have a nap at all (or just a really short one) he gets so upset and tired around tea time that it's just unfair on him. We had a really busy day on Sunday and he missed his nap bar 10 minutes in the car, and sobbed and sobbed later on/couldn't eat his tea because he was soooo tired. Was awful.

Would love him to sleep for 1/2 hour more in the morning but I can't justify making him so unhappy for the sake of that 30 mins extra time in bed!

Good luck with your ds xx

DS tried to give up when he turned 2, but I kind of persisted - not in a letting him scream way, just putting him in bed, reading a story etc. After a few days of trying to be all grown-up he was so tired he had a nap. Still having at least 90mins now at 2.10.

Hurrah for nap times!