What this isn't taking into account is that naptime and rest/quiet time are not the same thing. I can keep a child going all day but as soon as that parent puts the child into the carseat to go home the child is going to fall asleep enroute. Also the requirements for sleep say a child should sleep 12 hours overnight but a child that is up at 6 to eat and be at my house for 7 you can be sure was not fed and in bed for 6pm the night before therefore got less than the required overnight sleep so they have to make that up somewhere.

At the same time one of the reasons the child you have sleeps at daycare and goes to bed late is because his schedule is mixed up. Over a long weekend the parents need to work on realigning his day so that he goes to sleep earlier at night and then in theory he will be more rested and need less nap the next day meaning he wakes earlier.

As far as the article goes some of it is one of those in an ideal world sort of thing. My own kids did not nap in the afternoon and 2 out of 4 had given up morning naps by 6 months. But they still spent an hour in the morning in the playpen while I did whatever else with the other kids and I spent mommy and own kid time with them in the afternoon while the daycare napped. The daycare kids thought they were going to their own room to sleep when what we did was curl up on the couch and watch tv while I had a cup of tea etc. This was all because they were put to bed at a reasonable hour and allowed to sleep as long as they needed to in the morning as I didn't need to get them up to go to daycare.

Would make me wonder what info the lady was drawing from to make her statements. Especially given the daycare/government rule is minimum one hour of naptime/rest time.