Toddler refusing naps

I could have written this post myself! If she's having a hard time sleeping on days that she naps, that's a sign that she's not tired enough in the evenings. It sounds like she's about ready to be done with naps.

I also have a 1 year old and SAVOR naptime so I can have a tiny break. I've been trying to enforce "quiet time" with my older one instead of naps. During her normal naptime, I'll still put her in her room with a couple quiet toys and the expectation is that she "rests" or "plays quietly". We can usually get about 45 minutes before she starts crying for me, but I'll take what I can get!

I was just gonna say the same thing as Kelly- literally also in the same boat, my almost 3 year-old wants to never take a nap but always falls asleep. We have a Montessori bed for him when he was little and now he is in a bunk bed we made a little bins and attach them to the wall next to his bed that has just some pop it's, toys, busy book, wonder markers, tools, dinosaurs, all that you could think of it, and I just tell him that he needs to lay down and rest and he can play with his toys in bed and nine times out of 10 he falls asleep. I usually put him in his room around 11 he'll play for 30 ish mins and fall asleep. I never let him sleep past one so that way he's tired by 8!

Wow I’m happy to read you girls and realize I’m not the only one going through this. I have a 3 year old and a 2 month old. I don’t believe my oldest is ready to drop the naps although she really would love to. She protests a lot and ends up crying in her bed the whole time she would have napped when we insist she goes in her bed to nap. Last weekend, we ended up going for a car ride and she fell asleep almost immediately. I got a 30 minute and a 60 minute hourglass. I plan on putting it beside her bedside and telling her she needs to stay in bed and rest for 30 or 60 minutes. Hoping it’l work.

Sorry, no tips to provide here. Still trying to navigate through this phase!