Naps at 3 years and beyond?

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I'm just canvassing for experiences from parents whose children stuck with daytime naps after everyone around them seemed to have stopped. I have 3 year old twins, only one sleeps during the day, but it can easily be for 2 hours at a time. To manage him and my non-sleeper I have to get them both out in the buggy, every day, in all weathers. If he doesn't sleep he is horrible, but "Mr Bouncy" won't give me a chance to settle his brother at home.

I'm considering getting a single buggy and buggy board to cope with their very different requirements, but perhaps one day soon the sleeping will just end?

So how long did your children need a daytime nap?

Blimey, that must be really hard! Would he sleep if you put a DVD on and the other one could just keep watching? Or would your non-sleeper listen to an audio cassette/CD story and sleeper could sleep whilst it played?

No idea really how you'd manage both at once. I have a 3 year old who still has a sleep probably every other day and a 15 month old who sleeps. I make the 3-year old sit quietly on the sofa with audio-cassette stories whilst I'm settling the other one, so even if he doesn't sleep he is still "resting".

My dd1 2.5 has stopped napping during he day unless She is ill or had particularly energetic day. She gets to sit and watch her favourite program on tv whilst I settle dd2 8 months for her two nap times