long nap advice please

[malphy]

DD (3.5)still takes a nap but it is loooong. She will sleep 2-3 hours. If I waker her she is a mess. She is in camp til 1pm and sleeps from 1:30 or so to 4:30 or so. The whole day is shot and now she is having trouble going to bed at 8pm.

I tried eliminating the nap but that did not help, she was cranky and still went to sleep late.

Any advice on how to handle this?

[SnuggleBuggles]

2-3 hours is totally normal, imo. There's a lot to recharge for a busy preschooler!! If bedtime can be inched back a little bit you might want to try it.

Beth

[malphy]

Thanks, I thought maybe I was doing soemthing wrong. It just destroys what avtivities we can do during the day.

[SnuggleBuggles]

Hopefully camp will be done soon. Our nap time is 2pm and after that the day is pretty much shot. I just cram as much as possible in before 2.

Beth