More NAPS - vent

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Just to play devils advocate... my son is almost 3 and has almost fully outgrown his naps. Every day he does about 2 hours of rest time and he is quiet and laying down for that (looking at books, watching a movie) but it is rare that he does actually sleep. He goes to bed at 8:30 most nights (sometimes stretched later) and wakes up whenever he feels like it in the morning which is usually around 8:30. Perhaps if he wasn't given the chance to sleep in he might still nap.

But I also have a almost 3 year old girl whose other provider terminated because the parents wanted her to stop napping or shorten naps to an hour. I tried this for about a week and she was still so tired and groggy I decided to let her sleep until whenever. Sometimes she wakes herself up before an hour, sometimes she sleeps for over 2. I never told her mom this and when I ask how dcg slept last night I hear "oh so great, she went right down! It's been amazing since we switched here".

Sometimes what parents don't know doesn't hurt them