And how did you know they were ready? Did they nap a few times a week for a while? Tips? My son just turned 3 and we have a newborn and I think naps are phasing out 
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I answered for my only kiddo who has stopped (2.5), but my 3.5 year-old is still going strong.
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B was about 3.5. He was getting harder and harder to put down, and my in-laws came to visit for a week and we decided to see how heād do without naps while they were visiting, and that was the end of it.
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My daughter stopped napping when she started preschool at 3.5. It was too hard to fit a nap in by the time we got home from school and ate lunch. If she hadnāt been in school, I think she wouldāve kept napping longer. Sheās almost 4 now and there are days I wish she would take a nap because she is obviously tired and very cranky.
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We officially stopped letting my daughter nap at home around 3, because her bedtime was moving later and later (like 10-11 PM late), and she was perfectly fine without it, but she would still sleep at daycare/Pre-K until 4.5-5, which drove us nuts because it completely screwed up bedtime (that's a much longer missive LOL)
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Right around my sons 3rd bday, he would either not fall asleep during nap time and just play around in his crib, or if he napped, wouldnāt be able to fall asleep asleep for 2 hours at bedtime. For a few months after his 3rd birthday we still did quiet time in his crib for about an hour when he used to nap, and now at age 4 he will pass out in the car sometimes mid afternoon, or fall asleep in the couch if itās super hot out.
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My little stopped at 22 months
. It was the worst! She will still sometimes fall asleep in the car mid afternoon and is sometimes a bit grouchy but for the most part just doesn't need the nap. She's now 3
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DD is almost 4 and still napping 2 hours a day.
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Lo1 stopped napping at home around 4 and 3 months but still naps at school most of the time (sheās a few months shy of 5)
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DD is almost 4 and naps 1.5 hours at daycare. If we can manage to get her to nap on the weekend, she will sleep for as much as 3 hours. And she desperately needs it. On the weekend days she doesn't nap, she is quite grouchy.
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DD turned 4 in December and still naps 2-3 hours a day. She sleeps 10.5-11 hours at night. She can push through and skip it if necessary but is generally a mess by mid afternoon. We have gone through multiple stages where I thought she might be dropping it but we pushed through and she always went back to napping.
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DS turned 4 in Nov & we stopped his naps around the beginning of the year. He was taking up to 2 hrs to fall asleep at night, so we thought we'd try it. Now he's out within 20 minutes. He sleeps from about 8pm - 6:30am usually.
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Oldest I made her drop it at 3.5 because bedtime was too late. That made bedtime 7pm and she was fine with no nap! But would definitely have kept going if I let her, she wasnāt fighting it.
Second stopped right around 3. He got too hard to put down (would often only fall asleep at the end of when I wanted him to sleep) and bedtime was a big fight so I stopped trying to nap. He stopped napping at home but continued to nap at 2 day a week preschool or occasional camp and I hated those days because bedtime went so late. However he kind of sort of needs it still (just turned four) and we get by on car naps here and there since school pickups define our schedule. They both have an earlier bedtime still and itās a priority to keep that when I sah and solo a lot.
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DS was 5.5! He stopped napping most weekends this past summer but still napped at daycare. This made bedtime hard during the week. Heād be awake in bed for up to a couple hours. He started kindergarten this fall so no naps at all, although some days he could use them. His bedtime started to be earlier and he generally falls asleep quickly now. For the first couple months he slept quite a bit later as well but now heās pretty consistent 7:30-6:30.
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It's been coming for a while, but I just finally accepted that my recently turned 3 year old doesn't nap. She still does quiet time in her room, but not in the crib, and occasionally falls asleep, but it's rare. She definitely could still use it some days but I try to move bedtime a little earlier if I can.
Leading up to this for the last 6 months or so she's been skipping nap in her crib more often than not. Some days she would happily play with her toys in her crib, some she would scream. So for the last week or so we just let her be in her room for that time and she has an OK to Wake clock, and she fights it a lot less. Big sister is 5 and still does quiet time in her room too. Quiet time alone in their rooms is a life saver for me. Maybe you can do that when he used to nap?
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It was shortly after 3.5. To be exact I think he was 3y8mo. We had many phases where it seemed like he might be done but we stuck to our guns and he went back to it. That happened somewhere between 2.5-3 for sure. We just had to tweak his awake time (he needed a little more time between morning wakeup and nap) and once we adjusted that nap time and made bedtime slightly later, he napped for another 6+ months.
Went from 7am wakeup, 12:30-2.30 nap, 7pm bedtime to 7am wakeup, 1:30-3:30 nap, 8pm bedtime.
Once he dropped the nap all together, bedtime is back to 7pm and I have to say itās glorious. I forgot how good that early bedtime was. -
DS dropped his nap around 3. He was taking over 2 hours (sometimes closer to 3!!) to fall asleep at night. We dropped it and he is now asleep by 7 and sleeps 12 full hours. We just started at a new preschool and he lays down with the nappers for 30 minutes and they let him get up to read quietly with the older kids after his rest time. Heās in a mixed age Montessori school.
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LO1 didn't get the hang of naps until age 3. I remember before that being ready to throw in the towel completely. She napped until age 5. We stopped at 5 because bedtime was getting late and we were a few months away from Kindergarten. Now in K she probably needs naps more than ever but at least bedtime is a cinch
LO2 is 3.5 and still going strong with naps. He is starting to struggle with bedtime though. It's 9pm and I still hear him. -
My 3.5 y/o naps every day at preschool from 1-3 (they said it takes a while for him to fall asleep.) He goes to sleep at 8 and wakes up around 7. The weekend is much more erratic. He either wont nap at all or sleeps for 3 hours. š¤·āāļø
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My DD stopped ALL naps by 7 mos old. (Yup, you read that correctly... It was terrible!!!) She (at nearly 11) will only nap if she is extremely ill. My DS (now 4), on the other hand, still naps anywhere from 1-3 hours daily. Both are sound night sleepers. š¤ It is amazing how different children from the same genetics can have such vastly differing sleep requirements.
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I read somewhere most 3yo nap and most 4yo donāt and that held true for us. Somewhere after 4 naps started getting less and less frequent and now sheāll only nap at school
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DS is 3.5 and he still naps usually 4-5 times a week. He could probably drop napping completely but Iāve noticed if he goes a couple days in a row without a nap then it catches up to him. If he doesnāt nap then he has quiet play time in his room because I stay home and by the afternoon we need a break from each other. I plan on keeping that up for as long as possible.
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DS is 3 and still naps 90 min at school and 3 hours on the weekends. He consistently only sleeps 10 hours overnight so I guess thatās why.
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We forced DS to drop it at 3.5 because it was messing with bedtime and overnight sleep. I'm an early bedtime evangelist so I'd rather have that then a nap.
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We're still going strong at almost 3. I dread the day that naps are gone
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My son is almost 3.5 and naps I would say 40% of the time. He is a wreck by about 4pm with no nap and much happier/easier when he naps. Usually by 5pm he's laying on the floor sobbing asking to go to sleep. He rarely naps at school. At home, it's probably 50/50. I feel like he is constantly sick with a cold so I think he needs it.
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E stopped a few months after he turned 4 because he had afternoon 4k. It was just beginning to impact his nighttime sleep. A is almost 3 and still NEEDS a naps, she loses it by 1 and needs to lay down pronto.
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We just stopped naps over the holidays. My daughter is not quite 3.5. She wasn't napping well at school, plus she was fighting sleep at night. We would put her to bed with her normal routine, but it was taking her up to 2 hours to fall asleep. As an experiement, we tried dropping naps at home while we had some time off over the holidays, and she started going to sleep at night again! We've moved her bedtime up a little to account for no naps, and she has adjusted pretty well. Since a lot of the kids in her daycare class still nap, we do make her do quiet time in bed instead of a nap. Some days at school, she'll fall asleep the last 20-30 minutes of quiet time, so she still naps a tad, but she never does that at home unless we're driving in the car for a while.
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@pachamama: Oh no! my girls are 20 months apart and my oldest is about 28 months old. I just went through a nap strike and it lasted about 1.5 weeks. Still a bit ongoing. I think its separation anxiety. I'm hoping it means her naps aren't over because my only saving grace is when big girl and little baby nap at the same time during the afternoon! Good luck to you!!
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DD is almost 4 and stopped napping on the weekends a couple months ago, we just kept forgetting to put her down. Sheās fine without it most days. During the week she has nap time at school 3 days a week but I donāt know if she sleeps most days. Twice a week she falls asleep in the car on the way home from my parents for about an hour. So sheās still transitioning to no naps. I miss the weekend naps but itās nice not getting stuck at home with dualing naps Between her and the baby.
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LO turned 3 in December. She started preschool in September at 2y9m, and has never napped there (2 days/week). For the last month or so, her naps on non-school days have been getting increasingly erratic. On days when she does nap, bedtime is a fight, but she is exhausted after two days in a row without a nap. At least once a week, she will nap for 3+ hours. Our routines are also not set up for an early bedtime, so I am willing to stick with every-other-day naps for as long as we can swing them.
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Oh man. I'm so jealous of you guys that have 3-4 year olds that nap.
O stopped napping in her bed at 22 months. Complete refusal. Everyone said to keep trying, that it was just a regression. Nope. We have done car naps several days per week ever since (she turned 3 in Nov). We have just gotten used to scheduling our days around her afternoon drive. If we don't go out in the afternoon, she has quiet time at home. She's fallen asleep in quiet time twice, ever. I miss the days of that break in the afternoon.
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@Mrs. Turtle: bless your heart. 22 months ackk!
@lady baltimore: your kid is my kid!!!! And they're a month apart. if he naps, bedtime is a shitshow but 2 days without a nap he is a total exhausted turd. He'll even say,
I'm so tired!!" . He definitely needs a nap still but I don't know how to maneuver bedtime?! ugh! -
@Mrs. Turtle: I feel you! I cried so many days when I realized my kid was done napping before 2. (And both my husband and bil stopped before 2 so likely our second will also)
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I voted before 2 because naps started to disappear at about 22mos. He still napped about half of days until 2.5, then once or twice a week until around 3. In the last 8 months heās probably only napped 4-5x, all during illnesses.
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Like @krispi: we just stopped naps over the holidays, and he turns 3 tmrw (!) He wasn't napping well and he was fighting night sleep - would take 1-2 hours to fall asleep while banging on the walls and yelling, and then multiple night wakings. Now he has consolidated his sleep to basically 12 hours overnight, 7:30p-7:30p. If we go for a drive anytime 2:30 or later, though, he will most likely fall asleep - sometimes in as little as 5 minutes! That sucks. We try to avoid it or I try to sit back there to keep him awake. He's supposed to have at least 45 minutes of quiet time daily alone in his room but I don't think the in-laws (babysitters) really adhere to that very much.
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DD started kindergarten a month after she turned 4 and was still napping. From September to December she and a few other students had a nap at school for 30 minutes. She continued 2 hour naps on the weekends at home. She ended up dropping them over the Xmas holidays at almost 4.5. Our son is just over 2 and also loves his naps. I hope he continues until Kindergarten as well. Heāll be 3 when he starts school with his November birthday.
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DS1 (5 in March!) has preschool during his naptime 2 days a week, but still naps 2+ hours the remaining 5 days!
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