{"id":5671,"date":"2014-08-14T08:01:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2014-08-22T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T18:56:08","slug":"no-longer-napping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/no-longer-napping\/","title":{"rendered":"No Longer Napping"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"SONY<\/a>The day I\u2019ve been dreading since I had Honeybun over 6 years ago finally arrived: we\u2019ve ditched the nap.\u00a0 While she genuinely needed to continue napping through her kindergarten year (you can read more on why in \u201cThe Needed Nap\u201d<\/a>), she recently started having trouble sleeping at night.\u00a0 Hubby and I would lay down hours after putting the girls to bed and we would hear quite sobbing on the other side of the house.\u00a0 I decided to let her try skipping the nap for a few days to see if it helped her at night and sure enough, she\u2019s back to easily falling asleep without too much drama or trauma.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s a major milestone for her and a big deal to her \u201cbig girl\u201d status, it\u2019s not the best news for me.<\/p>\n

Nap time has always been MY rest time.\u00a0 My time to sit quietly, watch TV, relax, get things done that I can\u2019t do while managing three kids.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0That time is crucial to my existence and sanity and I held onto it as long as I could but frankly, I\u2019m still not ready to give it up, even if she is.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think it\u2019s something one can understand unless they are a stay at home parent who spends every waking moment being \u201con\u201d.\u00a0 Of course, that means the moments when the kids are the kids are awake as well.\u00a0 The only time a stay at home parent can turn really \u201coff\u201d is when ALL of their little ones are snugly tucked in their beds.\u00a0 Those moments are golden and essential.<\/p>\n

Logistically, it\u2019s also hard having one child that doesn\u2019t nap for many reasons.<\/p>\n

Poor Doodle cannot get a solid morning nap in to save his life unless I make the girls go swimming for the ENTIRE time he naps.\u00a0 So having one kid up jeopardizes the entire napping system.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the issue of the wanna-be-big-girl who, despite being two years younger, who thinks<\/i> she should be able to do exactly what the elder does.\u00a0 Many things I do let them do the same but there are things that six year olds get to do that four year olds don\u2019t, skipping nap definitely falls into that category!<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s me.\u00a0 MY time, MY needs, MY routine which is turned completely topsy-turvy by the addition of a child that is actually AWAKE!\u00a0 So, what\u2019s the solution?<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>\u00a0Stick her in a room by herself.\u00a0 For us this has become our room which is right off the living room where I spend the majority of nap time and which is also the farthest point from the nappers.\u00a0 She has a stack of books to read, puzzles to do and school work which she can complete.\u00a0 She is also welcome to lounge\/rest on my bed if she wants.\u00a0 I turn the TV on to classical music to drown out the sound of my TV shows which I save for nap time specifically because they\u2019re not child appropriate (because what is these days?) and generally she manages herself very well while her brother and sister sleep which gives me the time, space and quiet I need to recouperate and recover before taking on the rest of the day!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The day I\u2019ve been dreading since I had Honeybun over 6 years ago finally arrived: we\u2019ve ditched the nap.\u00a0 While she genuinely needed to continue napping through her kindergarten year (you can read more on why in \u201cThe Needed Nap\u201d), she recently started having trouble sleeping at night.\u00a0 Hubby and I would lay down hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,5],"tags":[44,297,298,45],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-family-life","category-mommy-time","tag-bedtime","tag-nap-time","tag-resting","tag-sleeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}