My boy has been trying to drop his nap for a while now. He will be 3 in a few months and probably for the last 6 months we have been having sleep issues. He completely refuses to go to bed for a day time nap so we totally stopped that as it just caused a lot of stress. I've tried doing quiet time and chilling on the sofa etc and he's probably dropped off on the sofa 2 or 3 times but fights it most of the time. I can tell he's tired because he's rubbing his eyes, doing all his usual telltale signs, and his behaviour goes to crap. Usually though he will just get up and start playing again after a bit of chill time but then his behaviour for the rest of the afternoon is wild. He's like a completely different child and I don't recognise him. He screams, hits, scratches, bites, throws everything and just generally doesn't listen, won't play either on his own or with me, won't eat etc etc. It's absolute hell and has had me in tears a lot. You'd think the upside to him skipping nap is an earlier night but he actually fights bedtime more when he doesn't nap and ends up getting to sleep later than ever. So I think he's definitely over tired. If I take him out in the car he sleeps and stays asleep once I've turned the engine off and will often sleep for 2 hours still, but it's just unsustainable to be doing this every day! I'm at a complete loss what to do for the best. As well if he does skip a nap he's so over tired we are sometimes ending up with split nights which makes the over tiredness worse and we get stuck in a bit of a cycle. He generally will sleep 9-10 hours at night and then if he has a 2 hour nap in the day he's great, a really happy little boy and doesn't really fight bedtime even if it ends up being later than I'd like. I'm at a complete loss of what to do. Getting him out in the car every lunch time and driving about is getting expensive and my back is killing from sitting there for hours on end. But the alternative is no nap and an extremely bad tempered toddler and a crying mum!! Has anyone been through similar and can give any tips? Thank you x