Power Play
No nap again for Kenny today. That is, no nap until I’d endured an hour of “quite time” (after the half hour he ran wild during the attempted enforced nap) which involved him standing at the top of the stairs the whole time, shouting down, “Mama? My quiet time all done yet?” and I finally gave up, strapping him into the stroller and taking him and Dudley for a walk. He was asleep in ten minutes. The exact same scenario played out yesterday. So he obviously still needs a nap, he just doesn’t want to lay down in his bed and take one.
Can you force a kid to nap? I don’t want to strap him into his bed, but there’s got to be a happy middle, right? I’m thinking of just walking at naptime for the next three or four days – the way I first started getting him to nap last year – then going back to the normal routine. Something about almost two-and-a-half year old boys and the word “quiet” don’t seem to gel…
