did daycare mess up your kiddos naps???

[tzs]

so here's where i'm coming from.
#1) sleep for my kiddo is super important to me. i know it's crucial for development and having worked at daycare/schools and seen how kids sleep less than they do at home, i often wonder what damage this is doing to our kids. sleep deprivation has the same symptoms as ADD and if we are depriving our kids of a little bit of sleep everyday then what is it doing long-term?

#2) i was SAH but it was kind of driving me nuts and i felt like working part-time out of the home would be better for both of us...that we would have a better and more productive afternoon if i worked a little bit in the mornings. i didn't financially have to go back to work. i really don't make that much money.

so anyway, i now teach preschool in the mornings and dd (13 months) is at the same school that i teach at. it really is a great situation in that regard.
however, while at home she takes a morning and afternoon nap, at school they don't take the morning nap.
i was already feeling a little guilty about this but now i'm really starting to wonder since this weekend she's had a really tough time going down for her morning nap. she could just be outgrowing it but she is also screaming tired so i don't think this is the case.

it could just be an off weekend or could daycare be "training" that morning nap out of her????
a friend of mine is having a similar issue with her son but he is closer to 18 months so he might have just naturally dropped the am nap.

ugh. the momma guilt is mounting.

[CrunchyChristianMama]

I'm with you on the sleep thing!

My DD dropped her morning nap around 13-14 months old. It's certainly not out of the realm to not take one at that age IF your child doesn't need it anymore.

I would guess that if your DD gets in the habit of not taking a morning nap all week long, you kiss that nap goodbye on the weekends too. She may simply get into a habit of taking an earlier and longer afternoon nap instead.

[Pookietooth]

I know my dd tends to resist sleep if she is overtired. But also they do start to resist sleep in general starting at around one year (or even earlier).

[redvlagrl]

DD dropped her 2nd nap at 10 months but slept 12 hours overnight and then 2-3 hours in the middle of the day. She began daycare a couple of days a week at 1 year.

Currently (just tyurned 2) she naps at daycare but is erratic at home - she sleeps better at daycare than here.

I don't worry if she gets enough sleep anymore (and I am a total sleep freak - I think enough sleep is extremely important) because she gets 12 hours overnight and then another 2-3 most days.