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Mine stopped napping at 22 months. It's the worst. She sleeps awesome at night but I needed that nap

Mine starting fighting them around 2, around 2.5 was napping 3-4 times a week, and now at almost 3 she only naps if she had a really rough night.

My oldest napped daily until 4, then it was more sporadic. His daycare/preschool still had him napping (or at least laying down) but by the end of the summer they would try to send him out with the non napping class if there was room.

At 2.5 he is skipping naps 1-2x a week but he needs it. His schedule is off due to 2 parents on summer break and random babysitting a couple times a week at different times.

Three weeks before her third birthday.

Both my boys stopped napping around 2.5 years old. I miss the nap sometimes when I wish I could have downtime in the afternoons, but it's nice to be able to go out and do stuff during the day without having to rush back home for nap time.

Dd went to quiet time at 2.5. Ds has suddenly decided he doesn't want to nap at a little past that. And he was taking like 2-3 hour naps before. I think he's doing better at night now though.

Just after 2 years old and getting quiet time to happen can be a struggle and max quiet time is an hour. I’m apparently not a very authoritative parent.

DD1 napped until about 3.5. Then it was quiet time. DD2 is only 2 and 3mo, and is already dropping her nap. It's killing us. Some days she's fine with no nap, other days she is a complete mess. She used to sleep at day care no matter what and now she's started dropping them there too! This may work out in that we have to move bedtime earlier this summer. DD1 starts kindergarten in August and they share a room. if she's not going to nap, earlier bedtime will be necessary.

My son switched to like every other day around 3.5... and then slowly worked his way out of it. Now he’s 4.25 and I can get him to no once every 10 days or so haha. Today he’s been napping for two hours after spending the last week constantly outside.

He’s sounds asleep by 730 though when he doesn’t nap. And gets up at 7. If he does nap he is wound up and can struggle to fall asleep. Today is Canada day and fireworks are at 10pm so it’s a perfect day for a nap!

I don't remember how old my oldest (now 6) was, but I think it was old-ish...3.5 maybe? It was easier because she's very close in age to DD2, so I just made them both nap, and she didn't really question it. On the flip side, DD2 was definitely pretty done by 3, probably because it was easier for me if she didn't nap so we could go out and do things. DD3 tried to quit at 18 months, but she's now 20 months and I have to wake her up from naps - she can easily take a huge 3 hr + nap if I let her with all the tiring summer activities.

In your shoes I would push on with the quiet time. I know several people who did this from around 2.5 -3, and the kids eventually started sleeping again, and were some of the longest (in terms of how long they held onto the nap) napping kids we knew. @Mrs. Champagne: is so right that at least summer is an easier time to wear them out to try to MAKE nap happen!

He stopped when he started afternoon 4k, so he was 4.25. He still slept every day when he laid down, but it was starting to effect bedtime. I hope #2 keeps napping just as long, she's still going strong at 28 months.

B dropped it at home at 3.5 and a bit - his grandparents were visiting for 10 days, we decided to let him stay up, and that was it. He kept napping at daycare for another few months, though. And he’s 4.5 now and he’ll fall asleep if we’re driving around 1pm or sometimes on the couch watching tv and sleep for a few hours, but it makes bedtime pretty terrible.

@Foodnerd81: The upside to no nap is that early bedtime. For all the frustration I felt when he didn’t nap for whatever reason, I always felt that “ahhhhhhhhhh this isn’t so bad” feeling when he went to bed at like 6:30/7
And now that he’s dropped it entirely he goes to bed at 6:30/7 every night and it feels so different from an 8pm bedtime, it’s crazy!

@Foodnerd81: my 2nd is 4.5 months and they both go down by 7 and the baby started sttn last week. I’m officially in sleep/alone time HEAVEN. I was not enjoying life for a while there. On Sunday I stayed up until 11pm bingeing Netflix and I was so giddy.