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Napping for Preschoolers
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Parents of preschoolers the world over are grateful for the respite that comes with an afternoon nap. Enjoy it while it lasts! At the age of 3, 75% of children are still napping; by age 4, that number has dropped to 25%.
"Then you enter the gray zone," says sleep expert Jodi Mindell, Ph.D., associate director of the Sleep Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "These are the transitional months when a child still needs a nap, but napping interferes with bedtime."
Mindell claims that parents have two options when this phase begins. One is to take away the nap and implement an earlier bedtime, which will probably cause some pre-bedtime crankiness. Or, you can continue with an...
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If your child naps at preschool, make sure the nap schedule doesn't go too late into the afternoon. Often times, a late nap means bedtime is going to be a fight and if late naps continue it really begins to alter a child's bedtime. Talk to your preschool teacher about making naptime earlier in the afternoon or see if they will work on ways to create either shorter nap times for your child.
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August 26, 2007
To nap or not to nap, that is the question
We are right there in the transitional phase. It's split 50-50. If our 3yo naps then she's up until 10PM. If she doesn't, she's tired and cranky until she absolutely gives up and passes out at 6.30PM.... read more
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