O/t - What age to children stop napping?

[ksumn1]

My oldest DD napped until she started Kindergarden. My youngest DD (now 4) stopped napping at 2. She is my insomniac. She does not sleep. SHe useually falls asleep around 11:30pm 0r 12:00, if I'm lucky. Some nights she's up until 1:00 am. We've tried everything......Earlier bedtimes, later bedtimes, getting her up early (she's usually up around 7:00-8:00 am), putting on music to help her sleep, a nightlight, no nightlight, sleeping by herself, with her sister, a pallet on our floor.......DMIL said thet my DH was exactly the same way. To this day he can go to bed after 11:00 and is up at 4:30 am on the dot for work.

I'm hoping all the activity in Pre-K, will tire her and she will either take a nap during naptime or actually go to sleep earlier at night.

 

[Hannathy]

Yes honest to God she never napped! My Mom came to see her and stay when she was 2 weeks old and she kept saying over and over "this isn't right, this isn't normal, she should sleep!" She could be awake for 12 hrs straight as an infant. Well gee thanks Mom tell a new Mom her child isn't normal. The only way I could get her to sleep would be take her in the car and as soon as you turned off the car she would wake up. When she was 3 she told the DR she wanted to be a DR and the pediatrician said well you have the no sleep part down pat. It's OK she's a teenager now and is making up for it.

I guess some kids nap some don't. My nephew napped until kindergarten and even came home from kind. and would fall asleep on the couch. good Luck but I think at 4 they are probably over. But there are always Disney Movies! They are good for over an hour of entertainment.

 

[dementia412]

My oldest was like that as a baby. She drove me to tears because she would stay awake for 10 + hours, and she cried all the time. I don't think her doctor ever really believed me when I told her how little sleep the grub got or how long she would stay awake at a time. Now she sleeps a lot... she falls asleep first and takes naps, and durring the school year it is very difficult to get her out of bed.

 

[clori]

mine both stopped napping on the early end. With my oldest by 18 months I gave up trying. My youngest stopped napping at 21 months although she will fall asleep on long rides still. With both kids when they stopped napping they did fine sleeping 9pm to 7am and were not grouchy or anything like that. On the rare occasion my oldest naps I know it is a sign that she is sick. As babies they took naps but 2-3 10-30 minute naps none of those 1-3 hours naps I was told to expect.