From two naps to one

[5 Little Monkeys]

By long morning do you mean in length or because of children's behaviour?

I normally put 8-14 month olds down for morning naps IF they need it. I have found if I try to keep them awake until 1230/1, late morning/lunch is a disaster because they are just too tired. I'm not going to put any of us through that just because lol. No one wants cranky kids!

I've never had an issue with a morning nap affecting afternoon nap. Once they start to sleep less in the afternoon though, I transition them out of morning naps as I feel they are now old enough to make it through morning.

I feel that rocking to sleep, bottles at nap etc are habits and ones that I ask parents to wean before group care but I feel that sleep is something different. Young children may not be ready to give up morning naps yet. Group daycare is a lot busier than just staying at home with mom and I feel that the really young ones NEED 2 naps still. Plus like I said, cranky, whiny, tired kids is not something I enjoy....and thankfully those days are few and far between here lol

If a child can make it through the morning without a nap and still be in a happy mood than that is great and morning naps are obviously not needed right now my youngest is 16ish months and it's been about 1.5-2 months since I've stopped putting him down for morning nap but usually 2-3x a week he has a catnap on the playroom floor lol