#1. My 2 and 3 year olds DO still need a nap. Without one, they start disintegrating into screaming zombies around 5pm, and bedtime is not until 730pm.
#2. Mommy needs them to have a nap. My little monkeys get up right about 6, if not sooner. Have you ever spent six straight hours with a toddler and preschooler? In addition to all the other tasks going on around here? It's exhausting. So yes, I absolutely admit that I need that time too- to clean, do schoolwork or just BE for a few.
#3. They have a set nap time. It is the same every!day! When the time changes, we change the nap one hour in whichever direction it needs to go. We have a routine as well. They are allowed one small toy {a car, a doll, etc} to take with them, they have calming music, we turn their fan on, we do kisses and hugs and then it's time.
Yet still, it is SUCH a battle about 4/7 days of the week. The other day, I sat up by their bedroom for two hours and kept going in, laying them back down, going in, over and over and over until I wanted to pull my hair out. I can't do that everyday or even 4 days. I can't.
We have tried splitting them up to nap, it's that much harder. I have tried staggering their nap times separately however then I end up with one falling asleep just as the other wakes, and that just plain 'ol stinks.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS? I WOULD KISS YOU! WHAT WORKS FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE TWO KIDS TRYING TO NAP AT THE SAME TIME IN THE SAME ROOM? ANY TRICKS UP MY READERS' SLEEVES TO MAKE MY KIDS DO THIS REGULARLY?
The lady who is losing her mind
2 comments:
I don't know about two kids in one room but when my kids stopped napping, I instituted "rest time". Quiet in their room time - listening to books on CD, playing with legos - something like that. Occasionally I'd go in and my little one would be passed out on the rug. When they tried to come out I'd just explain it's mommy's rest time to and my room was the living room. If there's any way you can have them in different areas that might help. Good luck!
I do both boys, at the same time in the same room. Now Cash fights, but Caleb doesn't yet. So this is how I do it. I make the oldest lay and rest somewhere quiet, away from the other while he goes to sleep and then I bring the other one in and tell him his brother is sleeping and he needs to be quiet, close his eyes and take his rest so he doesn't wake up brother. It works for us! lol I feel your pain!
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