late daytime naps

[bagpussmice]

dd2 who is nearly 3 has recently taken to having a late nap, 3pm sometimes - I try to resist it, but sometimes she is just too tired. Never sure how long to let her sleep. Do you wake yours up so that they will then (hopefully) go to bed at the normal time?
yesterday she fell asleep at 3.30pm in the car, I woke her up when we got home, she had literally had 10 mins sleep, and she took nearly 1.5 hours to settle when I tried to put her to bed at 7.30 which is a little later than her normal bedtime.
any advice?

My DS1 is just 3 and he usually goes without a sleep, but he oftens tries to nod off about 5pm if I'm not looking!

In my house we have a 4pm rule - no sleeping after that time - and yes I am mean enough to wake offenders up!

Your DD was probably overtired last night; doesn't make sense I know, but that does often mean they play up at bedtime.

Ds (2.9 yrs) will also do this occasionally.
When he first dropped his sleep it didn't make any difference to how he settled at night, but it always does now. He still looks knackered all afternoon for not having a sleep, though, so when he does nod off (once a week, if that) I actually let him sleep. Then when he wakes we'll go to the playground for an hour's running around and I'll put him to bed half an hour later. I do have to be really strict about him staying in bed after I've said goodnight though and tend to hover outside the door stopping any attempts to climb out of bed until he's got the message. On the days he doesn't sleep bedtime is easy-peasy to do.

I have to have a midday rule with my dd (15 months). If she sleeps for even just 15 minutes after midday I can't get her to sleep in the evenings.

We've had this too with dd2. We have no napping after two. Overtiredness is horrible but you might just have to ride it out until she drops her nap altogether. We found on days that dd2 was really overtired it's best to give her an early dinner and bed even if she has had a little nap.

Was just about to ask the same question. ds (2.5) had been going without a daytime nap for a month or so apart from a Sat/Sun, but the past week he has been reverting back to an hour - to an hour and a half. On Sat he slept 1.50 to 5.30! he was still ready for bed at 8.30!
He is at nursery till 2pm and usually sleeps 2.30-3.30 - but he woke today at 3.45 absolutely beside himself with tiredness - so I let him go back to sleep.
I presume its just a phase with the hot weather and all.