@geranium 2 year old here. He wakes up around 8. Naps SOME days for 1-2 hours around 1-2 pm. Never let him sleep later than 3 pm. In bed by 7 and asleep by 7:30. He doesn’t nap every day but he does get at least an hour of quiet time every day.
@geranium She’s 3
I feel like our schedule is kind of chaos lol
She wakes up about 7:45-8:30 AM
We’re mostly nap free unless we do a big activity during the day like going to the playground or beach so nap time would between 3:00-4:00PM
Goes to bed around 9PM
She does not want to nap as early at home, and it's been an ongoing issue, so we don't push it quite as hard as we used to because she just doesn't seem sleepy enough. The magic of school's peer pressure and playing hard in the morning I guess makes it easier!
Wake up around 8/9
Nap time 1:30 (strict 4-5 hour window based on ATTITUDE lol) - 3:30 / 4
Bedtime 9:30
I’m pretty flexible with wake up and bedtime but she sticks to her routine more often then not. This is entirely based off of how she operates on a day to day though. It took me months after 2 to relearn her “cues” and we settled into this routine. If u were to drop her nap as many suggest she would be off the walls and when we did try it with an early bedtime she was up at 5 which doesn’t work for the household schedule. When she’s ready to drop a nap (aka staying up during the entire thing) then we can.
Bed time is between 7:30-8. She generally falls asleep within 30 minutes of us leaving the room.
If she naps after a long morning or in the car, bedtime moves to 9:30 ish. I try not to let her nap longer than an hour and a half because it’ll mess us allll up. The other day she passed out on the couch at 5:45 and slept until 6:45 am though.
@geranium Almost 3.5 year old. We noticed her bedtime kept pushing later and later despite our best efforts. We chalked it up to transitioning to a 'big girl bed' (we started at 3y1m) but even after that settled a bit, she wasn't falling asleep until 9:30-10:30. Not cool. We cut weekend naps and at daycare asked them to cut back on her nap time to about an hour at daycare. On weekends she's exhausted and asleep by 8:30. On week days, around 9 is pretty common.
She's a hot mess from 3-5 on weekends but we push through with fun home activities like baking or a calm craft.