“It’s not necessarily because their physical bodies have decided they don’t need it, it’s their cognitive capacity to want more autonomy and power in the relationship, to fight for stuff when they aren’t allowed to fight for almost anything,” she says. When Gabrielle skips it, she’ll either fall asleep in the car when they’re out and about in Dartmouth, NS, or start “crying at the drop of a hat” around dinnertime.Īccording to Isabela Granic, a developmental psychology professor and co-author of Bed Timing, toddlers like Gabrielle are typical: Major cognitive changes occurring around age 18 to 24 months, and again at 36 to 42 months, can prompt some children to fight napping. Lyne Grimes’s daughter was two when she started protesting her nap. Monitor how your child handles days without a snooze: “If she’s cantankerous and unmanageable, then probably the nap is still needed,” says Witmans.
If your child skips a nap, then nods off on late-afternoon walks or drives, she probably still needs her rest. “It might be for a few weeks they’re only napping three out of seven days, and then it might be two out of seven days,” she said. Expect some inconsistency during the transition. While most children give up naps between ages three and five, it can be normal for kids as young as two to stop, while 10 to 12 percent of children still nap at age five, according to Manisha Witmans, director of the pediatric sleep program at Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton.
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Here’s how to cope when it’s time to lose the snooze. “Stay-at-home moms, we get nap time.” Sadly, not forever. “Working parents, they get lunch, they get coffee breaks,” says Sturtevant. But let’s be frank: That’s not why parents lament the day when kids outgrow naps. “Sleep is important for learning, memory and growth,” says Alyson Shaw, a paediatric consultant at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.
Naps serve a key function for young kids. “After two hours, I was so flustered that I spent the rest of the day just angry that she hadn’t slept.” “I would spend the entire time running up trying to get her to fall asleep or yelling at her for getting out of bed,” said the 32-year-old Calgary mom of two. But the rambunctious 2½-year-old refused to nod off. She’d lie with her, read another story, sing yet another song. Kelly Sturtevant tried everything to get daughter Keira to nap.
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