My almost-3 year old daughter is a total night owl, and there seems to be nothing we can do to change that. On a normal day she'll wake up between 8-9 am, take a 90 minute nap sometime between 2-4 pm, and then she'll be up until at least 10. Doesn't matter if we shorten the nap or if it happens earlier, even with a 15 minute nap in the car she'll still be wide awake in the evening. Even if we lie down in bed with her with the lights off at 8, she'll talk and sing to herself for 2 hours before finally falling asleep.
The only thing that will make her fall asleep before 10 is if she gets no nap, but that's a hard gamble. With no nap if we can keep her awake until at least 7 pm, then she'll sleep the whole night. But most times she'll pass out around 5-6 and wake up 90 minutes later, then we get a wide awake toddler until 1 am. The good thing is when she finally is asleep for the night, she's out. No midnight wandering or worrying about making too much noise, she won't get out of bed until 8
I'd rather have this than my buddy's situation though. His two year old goes to bed like clockwork every night at 7, but then awakes like clockwork again at 5 am. He says it's fine since he's a morning person anyway, but anytime I'm awake before 7 am I'm a miserable SOB
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