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“It is important to remember that nap patterns are not predictive of any issues in the future, as long as the child is getting enough sleep overall.” “It can be frustrating for parents when their child drops their nap or takes only short naps, whereas their neighbor’s child takes a daily three-hour nap,” said Sarah Honaker, Ph.D., a psychologist at Indiana University who studies sleep difficulties in children. Daytime sleep is also much more likely to be disrupted (by picking up an older sibling at preschool, for example). It’s hard to predict the ideal nap timing and frequency, because every kid has a different version of normal.

It wasn’t until he started walking, around 13 months, that he started taking luxuriant two-hour naps. The afternoon was a long, slog in which we would rock, carry, feed and fail to mollify him from midafternoon until bedtime. However, his daytime naps were short, fussy affairs that did not improve his mood (or ours).

We sleep trained him at 4 months old, after which he was a champion sleeper at night. As someone whose whole job is helping children sleep, perhaps I shouldn’t be writing this, but my older boy was a terrible napper when he was an infant. The irritability, whining and tantrums pile up during a nap-free afternoon, which can upturn a household.īut getting some kids to nap is hard.

We don’t need medical journals to explain what happens when a kid misses a nap. Scientists tell us that naps improve children’s moods, help them learn better and even reduce their risk of injury. But being locked in a house with a grumpy, screaming toddler during a lockdown or social distancing is torture. Having a child who won’t nap is frustrating during the best of times.