[winterlove]

My 3y/o goes to bed at 7.30pm, we read for about 20mins and he is normally asleep by 8pm. He is awake at about 6am and has about a 2 hour nap from 1 to 3pm. He did go through a stage of not napping at daycare and would then be really tired by 7pm and would then sleep in to around 7am.

[Angelina Balleri...]

DS is almost 3.
He goes to bed at night at 7pm. Sometimes he's asleep straight away other nights he carries on for quite a while. Either way he stays in bed.

He only has a day nap about 50% of the time now. Its exhausting (for me).

He wakes up around 6:30 on good days.

We bought a Gro Clock for him. The sun comes up on the clock when they are allowed to get out of bed. It has stars when they are meant to be sleeping.
It helps. But sometimes DS will open the blinds, point outside and insist the sun is up!

[aluminium]

DD dropped her day nap not long after her third birthday, at which time we started putting her to bed at 5:30pm. She'd then sleep 5:30pm - 6am.

Now that she is closer to turning four, we put her to bed at 6:30/7pm and she sleeps till 6am. Once a week she stays up till 9/9:30pm when we go out for dinner with our church, and she still only sleeps till 6am and is mighty grumpy the following day.

[Kay1]

My 3 year old is in the process of giving up the daytime sleep. He probably has one every 3 days. On the days he has one he will be up til 9-9.30pm. Fortunately he stays in bed and just chats, sings and plays with his teddies. He also wakes at 6am at the latest.

I have always been very strict with bedtime though. We have lots of stories, cuddles, songs etc but when I leave I leave and if he yells or carries on his door is closed. We have only ever had to close it a few times (for about 5 minutes) and he now knows not to make a fuss. I don't know if that helped or we are just blessed with kids who go to sleep on their own!

If he doesn't sleep he's a rotten mess by 6pm and in bed fast asleep by 6.30pm. Doesn't affect his wake up time though.

[k10]

Gosh, this is us too atm. DS (about to turn 3) has gone from self settling to needing us to lay with him and has dropped the day sleep in the last 2 weeks. As with PPs if he has the day sleep we are up till 9pm with him, without the day sleep he is back to 7pm bedtime but wants one of us in there with him doing a story and cuddle. Seems to have coincided with an imagination burst too and a bit of a fear of the dark (night light doesn't help though). I too am hoping it will just pass. Although I do quite like the lay down with him but won't be able to maintain it once no 2 arrives in a few months!

[lynnemine]

DD1 is 3.6. She hasn't had a daytime nap for nearly a year, except for at daycare, which I have vented about before.

It's currently 10pm and I am still fighting to get her to sleep, because daycare gave her a nap today. Funnily enough, her sheet just said "rest" but she was like, "oh no Mummy, I had a big sleep!" .....

no sh1t sherlock - 10pm and counting to get her to sleep..... and now she will be tired tomorrow, so they will give her a sleep at daycare..... grrrr. Gotta love that they give her a 30min nap, which means she misses out on 3+ hours of sleep at night.

On days she doesn't have a nap, she is asleep between 7.30-8 and sleeps until 8-8.30am.

so much for last minute cramming for my exam tomorrow.... sigh. New daycare time.

[Spotted Giraffe]

My 3yo goes to bed at around 7:30pm. If he has a sleep (pretty much only when he goes to child care now) we keep him up to around 8-8:30pm.

We have very little problem putting him to bed. If we ever leave it too late he goes hypo and then will carry on at bedtime, but this is pretty rare. He has 2 stories at bed and then likes listening to a music CD. Occassionally he asks for some pats, but he is happy with 1 minutes worth. He has a gro clock and wakes just before 7am every morning.

We have always had a bedtime routine and when he does carry on, we are consistent around doing the same thing. My first child was often a nightmare to put to bed, but DS is not a lot of bother at all.

[Working_Mummy]

Ds has only just gone 3.

He is in bed by 6:30, asleep well before 7.
His day sleeps are close to 3 hours except kindy days where he gets woken after 2 & bit.
Mornings on kinDy days are 7 am, non kindy days can be 9 or 10.

[**Xena**]

6:30pm- no day sleep usually.

[CheriDeMomie]

7.30 and still has an arvo nap otherwise she is feral !!!