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Re: Schedules of 3 year olds....
« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2007, 18:40:55 pm »
I guess your right.  I can't really put her to sleep at noon.  We aim for 1:00 pm  ... today she skipped her nap.  MOst of the time, she falls asleep around 2 pm ... the problem is that when I wake her, she seriously is SO SO SO cranky all night.  It's awful!!!!!  So I really try not to wake her at all.  Oh well at least I'll get an early, quiet night tonight.
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Re: Schedules of 3 year olds....
« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2007, 20:01:00 pm »
Well she skipped today.  She actually doesn't skip often, but more just falls asleep late.  But I've been getting her up by 3:30.  Her bedtime isn't too much of an issue for me.  I put her in at 8-8:30 and I have taught her to entertain herself.  So she really doesn't need me to fall asleep or anything, so its not *that* bad, but it does get annoying as I can sometimes hear her singing, etc.  Tonight she'll be in bed by 7:30-8 and I know she'll fall right asleep, then be up normal time but still that's more sleep than normal.  We'll see. 
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Re: Schedules of 3 year olds....
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2007, 21:35:54 pm »
We have the same situation.  He is 3.5 and is never tired by noon.  He will nap closer to 2 or 3.  I HATE waking him from his nap b/c he is so cranky and is horrible anytime he has to be woken.  These transition times are tricky!
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Re: Schedules of 3 year olds....
« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2007, 11:57:01 am »
Just bumping this one....

I know there are more 3 year olds out there  ;D
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Re: Schedules of 3 year olds....
« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2007, 13:49:01 pm »
Sorry, I'm in the 'surprised that she's still napping' camp, what with being three and having a younger sibling.  Those were both nap-nixers for us.   :(

I stopped pushing for nap when with even a fifteen-minute nap she didn't sleep until 10pm.  Yes, evenings are rough.  If you get her out of her room at, say, 2:00, you have four hours until a 6:00 bedtime.  Shelby watched a little more TV than usual but it's whatever you need to do to get through the stage of transition.  Usually the mind or the body jumps ahead of the other with regard to sleep: wanting to nap but not needing it or desperately needing it but not wanting to.

Shelby sleeps 7-7 now.  She gave up naps in winter.
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Re: Schedules of 3 year olds....
« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2007, 13:53:37 pm »
I actually pushed naps forward to 12:30.  She's usually asleep by 1:00 and sleeps until 3:00 but I put her to bed at 8:00 pm and I still hear her at 9:30/10 somedays :(
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Re: Schedules of 3 year olds....
« Reply #21 on: April 18, 2007, 15:38:03 pm »
That'd be my cue.  Not enough sleep at night so she makes up for it by napping.  Then when she naps she doesn't need in bed at the time she's used to.
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Re: Schedules of 3 year olds....
« Reply #22 on: April 18, 2007, 19:02:40 pm »
I know i already replied to this once but things have changed here .I have cut Ryan's nap out now so he goes to bed at 7.30pm and after a story he is asleep within 10 mins  ;D .We have had cranky times through the day around 1ish and 5pm but we get through them with entertaining .If left to Ryan he would be napping at 5yrs old  ::) .I had to stop the nap as Ryan will start part time school in Sept 5 mornings and 3 days a week will possibly be attending a unit in the afternoons .Cutting the nap hasn't been that bad ,i do miss my 2hrs in the afternoon but gain some extra time in the evening .
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Re: Schedules of 3 year olds....
« Reply #23 on: April 19, 2007, 01:04:32 am »
I thought I would also re-post here since things have changed a little here too.  Dd1 no longer naps at all, and no longer has quiet time in her room (the time was just getting shorter and shorter that she would 'tolerate' it, and I was too scared of her waking dd2).  So now we just have some 'quiet time' downstairs where I 'ignore' her (do BW etc!) while dd1 entertains herself (which she's very good at).  I find it's very important to get her into bed by 6.30pm as often as possible, any later too often and she loses the plot!  So she's sleeping pretty much 11.5hrs overnight, sometimes closer to 12hrs.

Her same-age cousin (who has always been a fantastic sleeper) only gets about 10hrs overnight, but then naps around 1-1.5hrs every day.  Both children will be starting afternoon kindy soon, so I'm glad my dd1 is in the habit already of getting all her sleep overnight.
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Re: Schedules of 3 year olds....
« Reply #24 on: April 19, 2007, 18:55:21 pm »
If she's falling asleep by 1 I'd wake her by 2:30 and aim for 8pm bedtime...
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Re: Schedules of 3 year olds....
« Reply #25 on: April 28, 2007, 19:07:42 pm »
That's what I've been doing.  Now today I fell asleep on accident and she slept until 3:00 pm so we'll see how tonight goes.   ::)  Not looking forward to it!  I've been doing 8:00 bedtime, anything later than that is too late FOR ME!
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