Does this annoy you?

my daughter was really difficult with sleep and if she was tired she would just scream and scream, i couldn’t work my day around her because she would only nap in her cot, in pitch black with a sound machine, so i totally get it

It’s annoying to me but that probably because I’ve never had a schedule🫪 I tend to just go with the flow. My kids naps don’t dictated my day but they also will nap wherever no problems

I just didn't make plans around nap time. My entire family knew from 12-2 I was at home lmao. My kids regulate their emotions better rested. Missing that nap means they cry from 6pm - 8pm. I'm glad those days are behind me!

Welp, sometimes the nap is for everyone’s sanity.

You’re lucky if you can plan naps around your day. Not all little ones are as adaptable. My first hated the car until closer to 2 years old so I couldn’t plan for him to nap in it. On many occasions he would just fight his naps too so if I’d planned to go out I would delay. When it’s taken sooo long to get him to sleep, there was no way I was going to wake him! My second is a little more adaptable but still has his off days

I would much rather someone ask to shift our plans by half hour or so than fully cancel. Sometimes a nap is so so needed and protecting that sleep is important, but also, either plan your day better if your child has 1 nap roughly the same time, or if they’re in the baby stage where the nap lots, you just gotta get on with your day as you’ll always be trapped!!!

I don’t really agree. If my son passes out right before I leave I’m gonna let him sleep. I don’t plan out his naps. But if he’s barely falling asleep I’m gonna let him sleep and then maybe transfer him once he’s asleep. Maybe it’s cause your second time mom, but you gotta give moms some type of slack. We all aren’t naturals at here

This is very much kid dependent and it’s often not the parent being inflexible because they want to be. I have two kids and one would MAYBE nap in the car if the timing was exactly right. And that would be after he screamed and cried for 20-30 minutes and I’d have to try to “rock” him while holding his hand and singing to him since I couldn’t nurse him to sleep.

My younger child will fall asleep in her stroller at an event with tons of people and amusement rides with music, etc if she’s tired. They’re just completely different kids.

The opposite is actually what annoys me. “Oh I just made sure even if it was nap time we still went to Target if we needed to, and they just had to nap at Target.” Yeah, no, that’s actually just because that worked for your child - you didn’t *make* that happen. Some of us really wish we had kids who we could be more flexible with, but that’s not the luck of the draw for everyone.

That being said, I don’t cancel plans very often at all

I said it’s annoying because either -

1. They don’t have a schedule at which point naps should be flexible enough to work around their plans

2. They’re on a nap schedule so should be planning plans around naps in the first place

It’s just silly to me when this happens like what are you even doing get it together 🫠

(I’ll be ok with a one off but if it happens more than once)

I usually don't make plans around nap time so I don't bother by cancelling or delaying. So it's annoying yes because you usually know how things go with your kid. Of course if it's something exceptional I don't think it's an issue bit when it's repetitive I think it's an organization issue more than. A nap time issue honestly