I think my youngest daughter has outgrown naps. The last couple of nights, she has been wide awake come bedtime. I remember this struggle with my oldest daughter. She would fight naps so I stopped making her take one, but then she would fall asleep late in the afternoon, wake up at her regular bedtime, and be wide awake until 10 or 11 pm, robbing my husband and me of our "wind-down" time before we hit the hay ourselves, and making her very tired the next day from getting to bed so late. Although it felt wrong, and probably was, I would come up with ways to keep her awake in the afternnon so she would be exhausted enough to go to sleep early at night. Selfish, I know. Many pediatric sleep experts have dispelled myths that keeping a tired child awake is beneficial (see Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child by Dr. Marc Weissbluth http://www.familysleep.com ).
So now I find myself struggling with the same issue I did 3 years ago with daugher #1. You'd think I'd learned from experience how
