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Should preschoolers be forced to nap?
How about lay still and quiet for an hour and a half?!
Well, Carrie turns 3 in two weeks.
She has not napped on a regular basis in well over a year.
She can at least play by herself for long periods of time, and that is helpful. She started going to Christ Church Mother's Day out/preschool (more like a pre-preschool) and this was her third day.
I am feeling like such a basket case today.
Should I force my daughter to lay still for an entire 90 minutes at rest time?
Last week it was dark and she had a hard time. I suggested giving her a book.
Today, she did have a book, and she still had such a hard time, my defiant little girl, that she cried and the director had to come in and calm her down and tell her lovingly and firmly to lay down, be still and go to sleep.
So okay, she cried herself to sleep. Therefore she took a nap.
Naps and my daughter don't work very well. An hour nap today -maybe- and she was up until 10 o'clock. And the only way to get her to sleep was to lay beside her.
AND, not to forget the possibility of restless legs. I have it, and she seems to need to move her legs a lot when trying to get to sleep.
Or is it just little kid squirms?
Am I feeling over anxious and being an overly concerned and over protecting mom when I don't want my daughter to be so miserable every day at preschool for so long?
And it's the last part of her day - the part that she'll remember.
I prayed that God would open the door for her and that she would get a slot if this is what He wills for her. And it's SO hard to know what to do! So let the kids who fall asleep after 30 minutes sleep, and then let the kids who don't watch a movie or something. That's my theory on it, but I don't have a degree in early childhood, but I am very experienced in my daughter. And I love her, and I don't want to force her to do things that seem unnecessary to me. She doesn't need a nap.
This girl has more stamina than a marathon runner. I know, I am one! So what to do? |
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