How old was your child when they gave up their nap?

Well, whats wrong with an afternoon nap? I'm a Great Grandad and I love an afternoon nap. It makes my day! I'm wondering if I'd like a stroller too? The good news is- I don't think I'd like wearing nappies. But perhaps the time will come!

I am one of those persons who thinks that naps should last as long as the mother likes, because as longas the child is put to bed, there is a good chance that he will actually manage to nap a bit in the afternoon. It all depends on the amount of physical exertion he was exposed to in the morning though. If you feel that he is not feeling tired enough at night, then I would suggest that you do not put him to sleep in the afternoon at all.

you don't say what age your child is but my kids both napped until they were 4 but i know women whose children are only are around 2 years of age and they are not napping anymore or seldom anyways so the mom's generally make a quiet time in their rooms for their children for an hour or so. that gives both the child and the parent have a bit of a rest.

Hello Cutepenguin, I´m glad to read you again. Well my eldest girl quitted snaps at the age of 4, and my smallest one at the age of 3. However I enjoyed taking them to the park when they were 7 and 9, and if they had too much activity they felt tired early. Or even they got asleep on the way home. I´d suggest you always take the stroller with you at least for 6 more months. Good luck and blessings Cutepenguin... dainy

I do not have kids because i am unable to but my niece stopped taking naps when she was 5 and started school. My nephew is 4 and still takes them. I think he needs them because when he doesn't have a nap he gets really tired and cranky. So it just depends on the parent and the kid and how the reacts without a nap or if the parents thinks the kid is ready to be without a nap. But i do think once they are in school they don't need a nap because you can't really nap in school anyway just send them to bed early at night.

Both of my children gave up their last naps of the day when they were between two and three years old. I think that the reason that they gave up napping at such an early age is because of the fact that we didn't have a strict schedule that we had to keep during the day so they were able to sleep in in the mornings until they felt like getting up as opposed to having to be awakened early in the mornings during the week. For them, their quitting naps at a pretty early age was actually a good thing because it did mean that we were able to do more enrichment activities when they were very young.

i think my daughter was 3 and a half when she stopped napping. she had quiet time in her room though for a month or so just to see if she would fall asleep.

As far as I can remember, my youngest son gave up on his afternoon naps when he was 6 years old. That was the time where he would be playing longer with his cousins and also exert more effort in doing his school work.

As children grow older there is a change in their sleeping pattern .My grand daughter was just 4 months old and we had planned for an outing in the evening and that day she did not take her afternoon nap but once when we had all setteled in the car she dozed off and we all joked that perhaps she thought that we,d leave her all alone so she kept herself awake at noon ,could be never know what goes on in their little minds .I think anychange (guests or parties) disturbs their sleeping routine and it takes awhile to set it on track once again .

Oh naps! My son was about one when he decided he no longer needed naps! Get a schedule for naps. You don't have to call it a nap and he may not sleep. Some kids just need quite time, like I said he may or may not sleep!