Hello,

I have a child who comes into daycare lately (31/2 yr old boy) very tired as he has been going to bed at midnight... mom says that she is trying to stick with their regular bedtime schedule for 8pm, but he wont go to sleep, he will just get up and run around.

My problem is that she is blaming this on him napping here for two hours during the day (she is not asking me to not let him nap, she just seems frustrated as she thinks if he didnt have a nap at daycare it would solve this problem).

I believe that this behavior is caused due to a lack of routine/consistency in the household as even at pick up time I can see that he gets pretty much anything that he wants... bribes of candy in the car to leave etc..

Can you think of anything else that could be causing this behavior as I would like to address this again with mom tonight at pick up time and would like to have more to say other than 'routine and consistency are really important. blah blah blah...'

Thank you