Avoiding nap time

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My toddler is 2yr 4 months and I have recently dropped her nursery hours due to me being on maternity leave.
She naps wonderfully at nursery, but completely avoids nap times for me! Even when I was working, she was avoiding napping at the weekends.

She's becoming extremely over-tired and then becomes grumpy, trying to hit me and my newborn. Naps at nursery are usually at 1pm with no issues.

Any advice on how to encourage nap times at home? Perhaps an idea of a sleeping corner downstairs, etc? It's really draining me at the moment.

Thankyou

At 2y 4m she's probably just dropping it, sorry OP. Dropping that last nap is brutal. If they have it you can't get them to bed, and if they skip it they're feral cats all afternoon.

I'd think about going cold turkey and cutting it completely, might get through it quicker that way. In retrospect we let that phase carry on far too long with eldest and it's torture!

There comes a stage where the afternoon nap is more for the parent's benefit than the child's, and I think this is what's happened here. She's also probably jealous of the baby and thinks she's going to miss something if she sleeps. Maybe designate 1pm-2pm as time to take them to the park? Baby will sleep and toddler will be distracted.