My son is 2 years and 8 months.
He's always been an early riser. 5:45 on a good day. He been fighting his nap since he turned 2, he completely refuses to lay in his bed and screams and shouts and messes around the whole time. He won't even do quiet time looking at books anymore, he's just so stubborn about the idea as he knows he might fall asleep. He just wants to play and doesn't want to miss out. I've tried offering the nap earlier and later etc. I've tried rewards, co napping (used to work really well for a 2 months or so).
However, he always falls asleep in the car and by evening is a hot mess, so clearly he is tired.
We put him to bed at 7. With good, consistent 30 min bedtime routine. Some nights he falls asleep fairly promptly but this week he is taking ages (over an hour) to fall asleep. He's singing, thrashing around etc.
He gained a new baby brother 4 months ago which disrupted and disturbed him quite a bit but the last month he seems to have accepted it.
I just don't know what to do. I feel like he's chronically over tired and we could cope with the early mornings when he went to bed well. Sometimes he sleeps through and sometimes he's up 2-3 times.
It's easy to feel like the only person with an almost 3 year old who sleeps so badly.
Anyone else going through similar?