Hello all, I figured I'd join this discussion since DS1 is now 3 and has been refusing his nap more and more recently. He used to be an OT mess on nnd's, but he handles himself pretty well at the end of the day now. We have been getting some EW's on both nap and no-nap days, usually to use the bathroom (though he still wears a diaper at night, so likely it's just an excuse to come out of his room before his light goes on). He's averaging about 3 nnd's a week either at home or at nursery, so there's no real pattern (it could be a few days in a row or just a one off). At home he often sleeps on the couch for his nap, but some days he just won't settle down.
There are some days when DS1 will fall asleep on the couch at around 5:30 (ebt would be 6:45, regular bt is 7:30), I wake him immediately, and he's so unhappy about it, but I'm scared for bt if he sleeps then. We don't always do ebt's on nnd's (if the logistics don't work out), and often if we do have an ebt, he has an ew, so there's no winning. Very rarely he'll sleep in.
I would really love to see him stop the EW's though.
It is almost comical how negative and grumpy he becomes on nnd's (he's usually a happy go lucky boy). When I pick him up from nursery I can usually tell pretty quickly if he didn't nap. (a recent conversation: "did you have fun at your cousin's house this morning?" "no, I didn't", "do you want to go back" "yeah, I do" or another conversation on the way pick up his little siblings at the babysitter: "I don't like 'dd', she ays 'dadadada'" "oh" "I don't like 'ds2', he says 'dadadada'" "ah ha").
