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Yes! The workspace for children teaches a class on this. On insta or Google that for the blog. Keeping quiet time is totally attainable.

I think shortening nap first is a great idea for kid sanity. For mom sanity I would start thinking about how you can implement quiet independent play. You'll need to start with a small amount of time probably only 10 minutes and then work your way up to an hour. And for what it's worth I had one child who kept napping at home after dropping the nap at school and one child who dropped the nap at home before dropping the nap at school. So you may be able to keep the nap at home for a while if it's not messing up bedtime.

So my oldest dropped her nap by 3, my middle by 2.5...so I'm amazed yours are napping still! I bet you'll get an earlier bedtime

My kids share a room (except for the baby, he's in with us, but soon it will be 3). We actually put LO1 in our spare room during quiet time so that she and her sister are in separate rooms. LO1 naturally likes time to herself to do things, but it's been a looooong learning process for LO2 to do it. One thing we do is have a music playlist on our echo dot that plays during quiet time - when it's done playing they can come out of their rooms.

@meadow: my kids share a room too. I just split them up for quiet time. One in the bedroom, one in the playroom. Then rotate the next day.

@meadow: I will say, I dreaded the drop of nap, but once we were out the other side it was glorious to not be tied to that schedule. Outings (irrelevant now ) were no longer limited!
But also, we worked hard on independent play and quiet reading time, so I can usually get a break when I need one.

@meadow: we also have a 3 bedroom and the “spare room” is an office/guest room/junk room. It is 5 year old childproof right now but we’re about to take it up to 3 year old proof because the baby will move into the kids room and the 5 (almost 6) year old will do quiet time downstairs in her own area and LO2 still needs containment. So it’s going to take some creativity...We’ve also put one of the kids in our own bedroom with an activity for quiet time in a pinch.