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We cautiously skipped the nap yesterday and while there were no meltdowns, by the end of the day she was running from room to room babbling to herself and fell asleep within 20 seconds of laying down.
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We can't get our son to nap anymore at 2.5 so that's every weekend day for us. He gets progressively more crazed until bedtime and is asleep within minutes
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Jul 5, 2023 14:56
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Our kid is at 27 months, and she doesn’t really nap any more. At least not most days. We still put her in her room for quiet time when we used to have naps scheduled, and she usually just stays in her bed and entertains herself, or gets up and looks through books. It may not be a nap, but she seems to enjoy it and still gets us a break in the middle of the day so complaints here.
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Jul 5, 2023 15:26
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nesbit37 posted:Our kid is at 27 months, and she doesn’t really nap any more. At least not most days. We still put her in her room for quiet time when we used to have naps scheduled, and she usually just stays in her bed and entertains herself, or gets up and looks through books. It may not be a nap, but she seems to enjoy it and still gets us a break in the middle of the day so complaints here. this is what we do as well with a 3 year old. two hours in his room, sometimes he sleeps, usually he plays with his toys.
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Jul 5, 2023 16:17
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Mine stopped napping shortly after 2. She’ll still fall asleep in the car sometimes though, and then good luck getting her to sleep at night. 😬
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Jul 5, 2023 16:34
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I am feeling like I hit the jackpot. My 2.5 year old naps for like 45 minutes at daycare and 2 hours for us on the weekends. I am sure that will change any day now!
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Jul 5, 2023 16:42
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We kept the kids out late last night to see fireworks. They're older now and deal with tiredness better, and they actually sleep in when they stay up too late which is nice. But not today. Nope. Today, the person who owns the condemned house behind us finally decided to start demolition. So at 7AM, I wake up to the sounds of giant machinery tearing down a house. gently caress. Guess whose kids aren't having a great morning so far because they stayed up late and didn't get to sleep in?
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Jul 5, 2023 16:56
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Our first kid stopped napping at 2. Our second kid will be 5 in a month and still loves hours long naps after lunch.
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Jul 5, 2023 16:58
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Sometime over the weekend ours skipped a nap for the first time in months and months and I guess that broke the seal; Monday she wouldn't nap at all  She's also started waking up at like 6am, probably gonna instruct daycare to switch her from 2hrs down to 45min-1
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Jul 5, 2023 17:55
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What’s a nap?
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Jul 5, 2023 17:56
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I'm beginning to suspect our daughter might need glasses. For like the fourth time in as many months she's walked head first into a pole at the preschool playground. Am surprised she didn't dent the pole with her hard noggin.
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Jul 5, 2023 20:58
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My almost-3-year-old steadfastly refuses to call a burp a burp, and proudly announces "I did a fart in my mouth"
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Jul 5, 2023 21:44
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Mine somehow did skip her nap today coincidentally but now she's screaming that she wants to go to sleep at ... 5:30pm 
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Jul 5, 2023 22:24
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Jumpsuit posted:My almost-3-year-old steadfastly refuses to call a burp a burp, and proudly announces "I did a fart in my mouth" That's awesome. Our daughter was sitting on the couch next to me and turns to say I can smell you from over here. I've trained her well.
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Jul 6, 2023 00:40
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Wanted to see people's opinions on a technology/presence question. If your kid were 3 and solidly asleep and you had a remote monitor installed (so video on your phone, motion alerts) would you be comfortable taking a walk? Just around the neighborhood, not more than 10 minutes stroll away. We always used to take a walk together in the evening and we really are missing being able to do that together.
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Jul 6, 2023 01:39
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My son also skipped a nap today and now he's screaming at the top of his lungs in the bath
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Jul 6, 2023 01:55
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Shifty Pony posted:Wanted to see people's opinions on a technology/presence question. Nope. Just one off the top of my head example...would the kid know what to do in case of emergency (fire in the house, something else). This is a hard no from me, and I'm a pretty free range parent. When my kiddo was in the 3+ range we actually had one of his daycare teachers come once a week for an hour so we could walk/bike/do something together. It was a nice break every week and we kept doing it right up until COVID.
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Jul 6, 2023 02:08
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Yeah I knew I wasn't thinking it through. There's a girl who lives half a block away who babysits so having her come over and hang for an hour would probably work really well...
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Jul 6, 2023 02:50
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When my kid misses a nap I'm pretty much guaranteed to have a nightmarishly bad night of biblical proportions
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Jul 6, 2023 11:49
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My kid is 3.5 and naps perfectly at school / not at all at home. The home part isnt bad because she's out like a light at a decent time although we basically can't do anything outdoors once she starts melting down around 5-6pm. On weekdays she typically falls asleep around 930-10pm and it's horrendous. We ask them to shorten / eliminate the nap but it only sometimes gets through.
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Jul 6, 2023 15:59
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Jumpsuit posted:My almost-3-year-old steadfastly refuses to call a burp a burp, and proudly announces "I did a fart in my mouth" this is cute. It's interesting to hear the variations on day naps with these little folks from the thread. It's truly a tapestry of diversity when it comes to that 2-3 yr old phase and giving in to beautiful beautiful sleep. It's like...parenting just means, you cannot expect or hope for any sleep again, you can just appreciate it when it comes and do you even need that gray-matter anyways? Our eldest takes a 3 hr nap in the afternoon and sleeps through the night starting at 8:30 and finishing by 6. He's pretty easy, except for the whole "my personality includes toddler." He naps and sleeps through the night -- a true victory. His baby brother is 9 months and refuses to sleep for more than at most a two hour stretch through the night, so we're still going through that sleepless night phase of frequent wake-ups and nursing and cuddles and sleeping and waking and nursing and cuddles and sleep and -- hey it's 6 and the toddler is screaming "PA-PAAAH," from across the hall? Two short 40min-1hr. during the day for that little one, one at 10 and another at 4. What's up with that? The tapestry of humanity?
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Jul 6, 2023 16:11
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My 4.5yo still takes naps. He skips them often but then he’s a mess in the afternoon. He mostly refuses to nap for mom because FOMO but I’m boring enough he naps for me. His new camp/preschool is all outdoors and they don’t even try to do naps so we will see how he goes.
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Jul 6, 2023 16:25
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It's the timeless trap that helps our species continue to reproduce: an easy sleeping elder kid followed by the difficult sleeping younger kid
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Jul 6, 2023 16:26
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hallo spacedog posted:It's the timeless trap that helps our species continue to reproduce: an easy sleeping elder kid followed by the difficult sleeping younger kid Wouldn't this halt reproduction at 2? What does a third contribute toward this dynamic? 
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Jul 6, 2023 16:33
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A Bad King posted:Wouldn't this halt reproduction at 2? What does a third contribute toward this dynamic? 
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Jul 6, 2023 16:38
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From what I've observed, the third one is either the chillest one, or the devil incarnate. Nothing in between. e:f;b.
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Jul 6, 2023 16:39
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nachos posted:My kid is 3.5 and naps perfectly at school / not at all at home. The home part isnt bad because she's out like a light at a decent time although we basically can't do anything outdoors once she starts melting down around 5-6pm. On weekdays she typically falls asleep around 930-10pm and it's horrendous. We ask them to shorten / eliminate the nap but it only sometimes gets through. It's wild. My 3.5 doesn't nap, and hasn't napped for almost a year. He'll have the occasional one if he's in the car or at school and particularly tired from a busy day but it's not the norm. He's the only one in his class that doesn't nap. Last time I picked him up from school around nap time, he was sitting there by himself playing with Legos while surrounded by his entire class passed out.
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Jul 6, 2023 16:45
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The best thing I can find is to sit him next to me and turn on Star Trek. Perfect blend of fascinating and boring to get him to doze off.
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Jul 6, 2023 16:48
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Jul 6, 2023 16:52
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Jumpsuit posted:My almost-3-year-old steadfastly refuses to call a burp a burp, and proudly announces "I did a fart in my mouth" when my brother was a little kid he called farts "poopy burps"
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Jul 6, 2023 16:54
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5 yo sat on the toilet, farted, "That's my poop alarm!" 
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Jul 6, 2023 17:08
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hallo spacedog posted:It's the timeless trap that helps our species continue to reproduce: an easy sleeping elder kid followed by the difficult sleeping younger kid I simply choose to only have the one kid that sleeps good and doesn’t ruin the good thing I have with him. (I’ll get back to this in 2 years and see where I’m at)
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Jul 6, 2023 17:51
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Skeezy posted:I simply choose to only have the one kid that sleeps good and doesn’t ruin the good thing I have with him. I only have one also but she sucks at sleeping so it skipped us
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Jul 6, 2023 18:23
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i was out of town for a few days and apparently my kiddo didn't nap the whole time I was gone, whoops
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Jul 6, 2023 19:31
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What's up with Peppa Pig Tales, the voices are all wrong and the charm is severely lacking
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Jul 6, 2023 20:05
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Welp. Time to vent. My boyfriend and I are on our first vacation ever a plane ride away. Just four days to celebrate our anniversary and see a couple of our favorite bands. Kiddo’s mom was asked months ago if she would take her for these days and was reminded as it approached. (My boyfriend told me that it is part of their custody agreement that in the cases he can ask and she can refuse, so she obviously accepted) Well this morning he was on his phone texting for a long time looking chagrined. Turns out she has forgotten she has plans to be out of town this weekend and dealt with this by going off on my boyfriend for “leaving his kid” and informing him that she would be bringing kiddo with her meaning that bf will not see his son until Monday, when originally he was supposed to pick him up on Saturday when we get back. This is already the longest he’s been away from his kid in a long time, so he is understandably pretty upset. And no it is NOT part of their custody agreement for her to just say “I’m keeping your child for the weekend, deal with it.” He obviously does not want to get lawyers/police involved, but holy poo poo I am livid for him. If we were like going all over god’s green earth and dumping the kid on her constantly that would be one thing, but this is literally the first time in a calendar year. So anyway, now I officially understand why he is so aggravated at her all the time because apparently she consistently uses their son as a pawn to hurt him. I’m baffled at the idea of saying “how dare you make me have my child with me for four days…so to get back at you I will keep him from you for two additional days.” The actual gently caress.
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Getting an answer out of my daughter is like pulling teeth Me: are you hungry? Her: neither of us kids have had breakfast yet Me: that's why I'm asking. Are you hungry? Her: (silence) Me: ...are you hungry? Her: (yelling) YES I'M HUNGRY Me: please don't yell at me. What do you want? Her: (silence) Me: You know what we have: bagels, cereal, yogurt... Her: Yogurt. Me: Alright. Her: (a minute later) NO, BAGEL Me: Not toasted? Her: Not toasted. Me: Cream cheese, butter? Plain? Her: (silence) Me: okay, I'm making it plain Her: (hollering angrily) NO, CREAM CHEESE
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Jul 7, 2023 14:58
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Just left my kid off for 1 hr to visit the daycare she is starting 2x a week next week. Full of some crazy feelings right now. Hope they're ready for her honestly
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Jul 7, 2023 15:31
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Today I learned that walking on tiptoes and speech delay are both signs of autism. My 2yo has both. Anyone have good resources for watching out for autism warning signs so I can get intervention if needed?
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Slaan posted:Today I learned that walking on tiptoes and speech delay are both signs of autism. My 2yo has both. Anyone have good resources for watching out for autism warning signs so I can get intervention if needed? Honestly I wouldn’t wait if you have the slightest suspicion—schedule an evaluation now. It depends where you are of course but it can take a long time to get one (it took us 6 months) and the sooner you start intervention the better the outcome. Even if it turns up nothing better safe than sorry. We were extremely lucky and got our kiddo diagnosed with ASD at 18mo—he wasn’t able to start intensive services until right before he turned 2 (again because of wait lists) and a year later he’s still significantly behind his peers but doing MUCH better. If we had waited I think he’d be in a much worse spot.
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