do you require your children to sleep during afternoon?

hi, as i have seen to my sister and brother that already have kids,they required their kids to sleep in the afternoon even for an hour and above,and their reason is to make their child grow up faster.its so really nice to sleep in the afternoon because it will refresh us,especially to the adults.

I have experience that since I was a child, my parents were forcing me to take a nap or sleep during afternoon but you were right, I am not really sleepy. In order to follow my peers, I do pretend that I'm already sleeping but then when it was time to wake up and my parents called up that's the time that I really felt sleepy and I felt awful because of that, now that I am already a parent I think I should not be doing that since I know how it feels..

When my sister and I were little (under the age of five) sometimes we needed naps. For me, I stopped needing naps around age three, but in the case of my sister, she'd come home from kindergarten, and take a nap. It is different with every child. I don't have children, but if I did, I would make the decision, based on the child.

I am still single, but i remember when we were growing up we were required to take a nap after school so that we can rest and will have enough energy to do our homework and to be able to wake up early the following day.

When our child was still a kid, i do not push her to sleep in the afternoon. It naturally comes to her, after she has played a lot, and will be exhausted from it. It is because, as i have just read in a health journal, that we have two innate sleep pattern ; before 12 am to 7 am and 1 pm to 2 pm. So now i know, why i get so sleepy after lunch.

For me its fine to push kids to sleep in the afternoon.I was trained that way during my childhood.The reasons was too freshen' our mind before the time we make our assignments.then by 7pm in the evening we need to take a sleep because we need to wake up early by the next morning for school. I salute for those parents who trained their kid in that way...;)

In order to make the children get up early in the mornings, it is better to make them go to bed early every night rather than pushing them to sleep during weekend afternoons, which will not help them to get up early during weekdays. Every child wants to be free on weekends as they study whole week. So let the children be free at least on weekends. As a child I never used to sleep in the afternoons. But during hot summer my parents and grand parents used to push me to chill out at home.

My parents used to do this to me and my siblings when we were children. They would require us to sleep on afternoons that we had no class and they frequently would check on us. On most times, we would be pretending to be asleep. I guess, children are very energetic almost every time and the only time they would want to sleep is if they already have drained all their energies.

My kid always sleeps in the afternoon...his 1 yr. old...its because he gets tired during the morning so he sleeps in the afternoon, which is a relief cause they say that its good for kids to sleep in the afternoon. I don't really force him to sleep though.

Sometimes it's necessary but sometimes for me it's not really clever to force the child to sleep during afternoon as there is a chance that he or she will sleep later during the night just like my nephew,he sleeps during afternoon like about 5 hours,he sleep 1 pm and wake up 5 pm and sleep somewhere 11 to 12 midnight and my sister is having a problem with it since the sleeping routine for a kid is not that really normal.When I'm a kid,my mom don't force me to sleep during afternoon as I will get tired around five then I can sleep earlier like somewhere 7 or eight.

Hello Airasheila, I remember my parents used to force us (me and my brother) to sleep during afternoon. We couldn't get asleep because we were children and we would have liked to play all the time. But we didn't want to upset our parents so we were pretending we were sleeping when they took a glance into our room. I don't think it is a good idea to force children to sleep during afternoon. I would rather make them go to sleep early in the evening.

I have two kids of almost 1 and 2 they both sleep in the afternoon. In my opinion they both need it. The youngest, okay he is 1 that is just normal. The oldest is 2, when he does not go to sleep for 2 hours in the afternoon. He is just whiney and crying when something very small occurs. My mother in law babysits him every once in a while and she told me "he was not tired at all, so he did not sleep in the afternoon". Well when home I realised he has to go to sleep if he looks/acts tired or not. He has been whiney two days in a row because of one day of no napping. He just needs it. It does not always seem like he is tired but when I put him to bed he always sleeps within 5 minuted. When he is not really tired, he sleeps a little and then just starts playing in bed. He NEVER cries he wants out of bed. Not in the morning, afternoon ever! I think it is just better for them, they told me that small kids grow when they sleel and are rested. If it is true I don't know but in my opinion it is better for small kids to take a nap. At least untill they are about 3.