Does your child take an afternoon nap?

My daughter is 2yrs old and 3 months, she naps twice a day... Usually in the morning at around 11, that will take an hour, then in the afternoon around 3 or 4, takes to 2-3 hours... It's really essential to establish a good nap-time routine,works for me and my baby, life is much easier for me as a full time mom, have time to do my household chores, if i still have spare-time when she's asleep, I'm able to earn extra money online like mylot. And she usually wakes up happy, talking and in good mood. yeah i guess when she starts to go to school it will be a different situation. i just hope she won't fall asleep while at class in the afternoon(lol).

Yes my son takes an afternoon nap everyday. Of course he's only 3 months old so it's quite normal for him to take several naps a day. It's very nice when he does take a nap as it gives me a chance to do what I'd like to do. Housework gets done or just time to myself. My friend has a 4 year old daughter and she refuses to take naps. She can't get her to take a nap for anything.

I think my oldest stopped napping around 3. My Middle is still a napper @ almost 5 and the lil guy still naps but he's a toddler so there ya go. I'm hoping though w/ my middle starting Kindy in fall that she can manage to stay awake til bedtime 5-8pm naps aren't much fun but sometimes she'll just crawl back into bed if everyone else is in bed when she wakes up. I just wish they'd all take a nap at the same time so MOM can take a nap!

Hi, grkelly. Yes, my kids take naps. Especially my three year old daughter. She will take a nap for about 4 hour sometimes. I know that it is long but it is usually in the earlier day time. My son may take a three hour nap too. My oldest daughter will take a nap for about an hour then she will wake back up. I think that a child may be tired when they come home from school. By that time that are so tired out from being in school. Not taking a nap, helps them to sleep more longer once they go to sleep for bed time at night.

i really want my child to take a nap in the afternoons, yes it is really a break time and we can also relax but most of the times for me it is the time to finish all my housework as whole day i am busy with the kids and have a lot of pending work and also cooking. usually when the child grows up they dont sleep and it is the case with me also but i always try as much as i can to put them sleep. and now my elder son is going to his school and need to get up early in the morning so i put him asleep afternoons as he would be tired and my younger one also i make him sleep at the sametime i know sometimes its not going to happen that both sleep at the same time but i always try to do so.

My child does sleep around noon but at first she slept 2-3 hours and now only 1 hour, which I really have to get used to myself. She is 18 months old by the way

We generally ensure that our kid takes an afternoon nap. It is good for him else around 7:00 in the evening he starts feeling sleepy and is a bit irritated till he goes to the bed. Of course, off late he does not want to take the afternoon nap and instead play around the house, but we still make him sleep. Cheers! Ram

My daughter stopped taking naps before she turned 2. Sometimes if I laid down with her I could get her to fall asleep but not very often. If she was sick she would take naps. My sons the same way. He wont take a nap if his sisters home to play with or if I was babysitting and any other kids were here. If the house was silent and he knew he wasent missing anything he would take a nap. But now that my daughters home from school for the summer I dont even bother trying to get him down for a nap because I know it just wont happen. Oh well if he doesnt take a nap then he sleeps longer at night. I really do miss that break I got while he was napping though. I could clean or nap as well.

I do not have a toddler, my son has school now. When my children were toddlers, I also always wanted my kids nap, so I can break or finish the job, but sometimes very difficult to make my child take a nap. Sometimes I also go to sleep when my child to sleep. I think all mothers experience the same thing.

All my kids, ages, 11, 9,3 years old and 3 months old, are very active. Whether they like it or not, they all feel sleepy during the afternoon. Maybe, all the activities during the day make their body exhausted. Even those who go to school and it takes a lot of effort in their part to stay awake4 w1hile classes are going on. However, my 3 year old daughter would not want to go to bed without me.She'd rather not sleep (fighting the urge to doze off by playing any sort of stuff) than sleep all by herself. This is sometimes difficult for me because I've to do other things while she and her baby sister take a nap. Thing is, she and the baby are both suckling.;-)

My 2 1/2 year old daughter regularly has a sleep in the afternoons between a 1 to 2 hour sleep though this is not every day. I know some parents who go out and insist on being home in time for their childs nap though I feel you can not live like that. If my daughter doesnt have a sleep either she gets grumpy by about 4.00 or she simply falls asleep earlier than her usual bedtime. When she wakes from her nap she is much happier and therefore so am I and it gives me time to get on with things I need to do though I take it from my daughter if she looks tired. Some days she is fine though.

Good day Grkelly, I am not yet a mother but, I usually take cares my nephew and niece. Just like you, I always see to it that they will take an afternoon nap. It is not a big deal if they are going to school now a days since their school timings is on the morning. And still they have a time for a nap in the afternoon. Aside from that, having a nap at least an hour is quite different because it promotes a revitalise healthy body.

My little man is almost 16 months old now, and he is in a routine where he will have his nap between 10 and 11... depending on how early he wakes up in the morning. Generally though he wakes around 7am from his nights sleep and then goes down for his nap at around 10-10.30am (ish). He will then sleep for maybe 1 and 1/2 hours to 2 hours. In that time I either do the housework, or come here and have my time to spend here on My Lot LOL! It is just nice to have some quiet time for me, as he is very active, and after he has had this morning nap, he will then be on the go all day, until 7.00pm, which is when I put him down for his night-time sleep. I find it nice because he will then sleep right through the night, as he is completely tired out from all the running around he has done throughout the day, and I can relax, and have a good sleep also at night. I think that routine is extremely important from the start of the life of a new born baby, and it is routine that my little man knows and is used to, so I find it a blessing. If a child is not routines, I think they become confused, and then that leads to having problems with sleep patterns.