"So do we have the only 2-year old that refuses to nap??"
This shit is MADDENING!! She takes a nap at daycare just fine all week... but on weekends... Nope Nothing it's a battle EVERY Saturday & Sunday. 1+ hours wasted trying to get her to sleep.... ultimately she doesn't then by 5pm she's an absolute monster....
We need a village STAT around these parts.... Shit... just someone to come through for like 2 hours on Saturday & Sunday .....
1. "No, it's not just you." In response to Reply # 0
My friends had this problem. They came to the realization that the kids were so excited to be with them on the weekends that they wouldn't go to sleep. They ended up making them nap by putting them in the car and driving around running errands and stuff for 2 hours after lunch.
14. "yo, THAT'S that buuuullllshit!! for real. SAME thing here..." In response to Reply # 3
Thinking she gonna be down for the count PROPER..... even fill her lil tummy up with some good lunch.....
nope... nothing... it's like she feeds off being sleepy and gets MORE energized somehow...the more she fights it, the wider awake and stronger she gets....
4. "right around 2 is when mine started to rebel against napping" In response to Reply # 0
before that it was a 1-2 hour nap every day around 11am. Then he was like fuck this shit. They became sporadic. Basically when he wanted to nap. 7 days a week turned to 3 days at the most. By age 4 it was once a week if at all.
November 8th, 2005 The greatest night in the history of GD!
33. "you wont get it back until school starts" In response to Reply # 15
me and my wife have a breakfast date every week. Drop him off at school then head to have a coffee and a donut or a big ol murican breakfast. But man its done wonders for our relationship. Things werent bad but we got NO alone time. Now we get a bunch.
November 8th, 2005 The greatest night in the history of GD!
34. ":( Gonna have to try the date thing...it's been crazy at work for both" In response to Reply # 33 Mon Mar-23-15 12:22 PM by FLUIDJ
>me and my wife have a breakfast date every week. Drop him off >at school then head to have a coffee and a donut or a big ol >murican breakfast. But man its done wonders for our >relationship. Things werent bad but we got NO alone time. Now >we get a bunch.
of us lately. Our routine is fcked up from jump anyways...
I start work between 6-6:30am so i'm usually on the bike headed to work by 5:45am M-F. School(daycare) starts at 7:30am so my wife brings the little one in (daycare is here where I work) and the she heads off to work to get there by 8:30am.
Things aren't bad...but the winter has been long and rough being stuck inside all the time because of the weather. It's better in the warm months because we'll go out for walks and stuff in the evenings with the little one in her stroller so we're virtually alone behind her.....ahh...can't wait until warm weather gets here for good!
36. "what was killing us was sports" In response to Reply # 34 Mon Mar-23-15 05:25 PM by RobOne4
hockey was a brutal ass season. 23 weeks. Practice on Tuesday, Friday, and game on Sunday or Saturday. Driving all over SD to the different rinks he played at. On practice days I pick him up from school and we go home to change, stop off at McD's or something else to eat. Then head to the rink to catch open skate at 3pm. Then he skated until 5:15. Practice started at 5:30 and ended at 645. 45 minute drive home, pick up dinner, shower, and right to bed at 830pm. I had to do all that alone because my wife works until 5:30.
Hockey ended and baseball started immediately. We actually had a week over lap. But right now 1 game during the week and 1 on Saturday. Also practice 1 day during the week, depending on game schedule. He also is taking skating classes still to stay sharp until next season. So sports is 4-5 days a week right now.
The days we dont have sports he is doing tons of homework. We get homework packets for the week. So if we have a game or practice on Tuesday we double up on Monday. Or sometimes triple up. This schedule wears me out more than him. He sneaks in power naps in the car. I am drinking coffee like a mad man. So the breakfast date has been amazing for us. Just chill and talk with out no kid for a couple of hours.
November 8th, 2005 The greatest night in the history of GD!
18. "an aside: B-day party for her lil classmate last weekend....." In response to Reply # 7
the parents had the ill spread.... food and drinks and everything.... so... They had this clear glass drink dispenser thing full of Sangria (color fruit inside and everything) RIGHT next to one filled with lemonade.... One of the parents told me she didn't realize it was alcohol until AFTER her daughter took a sip and said it made her nose tingle....
I put my daughter in the bed and tell her nap time and get ready for an hour of crying and I gotta use the potty but eventually she gives in stay strong
9. "RE: So do we have the only 2-year old that refuses to nap??" In response to Reply # 0
LOL!!! No. My almost 3 year old (on Friday) will not go to sleep...unless, you take her for a car ride. That's the ONLY way she will fall asleep. Now, if she plays REALLY hard, then maybe. But, a nap is not a regular occurrence.
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12. "all that does is waste gas for us lol....like..she'll sleep while it's i..." In response to Reply # 9
motion.... but as SOON as the car stops in the driveway...here she go rubbing her eyes n'shit talkin bout "Were are we goin Daadddyy?" and if she don't wake up when the car stops...getting her out of the Ft.Knox of car seats will DEF. get her wide awake with the quickness!
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10. "My one year old fights sleep like a champ." In response to Reply # 0
Even before he was one he would fight sleep. You know how most kids can cry themselves to sleep? Not this negro. This boy will cry himself into new energy. He gets it honestly, though. I like to be awake more than I like to sleep, so he got it from me.
21. "No, she just has incompetent parents" In response to Reply # 0
*jokes*
For real though I've had moments where I wondered if (insert puzzling child rearing issue here) was just me somehow. The truth is that two year olds are vicious opponents who don't play fair.
You'll either develop a technique that works at some point, she'll get on a consistent schedule, or you'll give up.
I never cared too much about naps unless I really needed to do something while she slept and she's always just fallen out on her own at some point. She's more likely to follow my lead if I'm relaxed and we're watching a family movie, she tends to relax too and eventually falls out.
My advice is just that, don't emphasize the nap so much because that's precisely what will drive her to stay awake. Perhaps if you have a family wide quiet/relaxation time
25. "yeah, but that only works if you're ready to drive around for an hour st..." In response to Reply # 24 Mon Mar-23-15 10:21 AM by FLUIDJ
the 'go out for a drive until they fall asleep then double back home and take them out and put them into the crib' routine has never worked on her.. Even when she was an infant.
The crazy thing is she naps just fine at daycare. .
26. "none of my 3 kids napped at home past 2" In response to Reply # 0
and the oldest stoppped napping at day care after about 18 months... they used to send him down to the 4 year olds' room at nap time so he wouldn't bother the rest of the class.
29. "Up to a certain age there's allegedly a heath benefit." In response to Reply # 27
I believe we're at the cusp of that age now at around 30-months in. Basically it's the same for adults...you need X amount of sleep for mental and physical recuperation. Infants and toddlers need more sleep than adults.
>For the benefits of the parents, I'm assuming kids that age >prolly get at 9-10 he's of sleep during their normal sleep >hours.
Typically that's what we aim for....it's hit or miss by a couple of hours depending on how late she actually falls asleep. She wakes up by 6:30am at the LATEST routinely. So if she gets to sleep by say 9pm at the latest then she's good on sleep requirements technically I believe.
>Truly don't kno here, not being snarky
Ahh no doubt....I didn't take it that way at all.
>I love naps but I vaguely recall nap time being >annoying/useless when I was a youngin
What tends to happen is that towards dinner time (6pm or so) if she hasn't napped she is very temperamental and it translates to her not eating like she should, taking even LONGER to go to sleep at bedtime and just all around rough evenings.
30. "Also, a couple things to remember:" In response to Reply # 28
every child is different. there is no magic age at which a child should nap this long or that long.. MOST kids are inconsistent nappers.
you have to keep in mind what is happening inside their bodies also.. during growth spurts they are literally coursing with hormones and evolving rapidly, brains sparking, muscles and bones stretching. at the peak of these cycles, theres often a temporary inability to fall asleep. towards the end of a growth spurt they might fall asleep anywhere in the middle of anything.
consistant routines are super important, but they will not always work. as long as you are consistent with the attempts to keep the routines, let the child's body show you what he/she needs.
unless you need a nap, too. I used to get in those good naps while waiting for my son to fall asleep. we don't even sweat it now, we have things to do. usually he'll fall asleep late afternoon in the car trip to go do something.
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