The Daddy Thread

What age did ye cut out the daytime naps lads? For clarity, your kids’ naps.

I’m not sure if it’s been from Divisional Weekend over stimulation but junior has been jumping on the bed reciting the alphabet for 2 hours now (10.20pm). For reference, he is 104 weeks.

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Birthday boy? We’re nearing that time , she’s 2.4 years … Probably get another couple of months out of it max. I’d say he’s just pumped seeing Rodgers fall short again.

It’s tomorrow. He hardly knows? Maybe that’s why he’s buzzin. Pile of toys and cake a matter of hours away.

He’s fucking with you…

Ours is 2 and 4 months; had a 3 hour nap yesterday and then just about an hour on Saturday. The days she’s in creche she might not get any. Still gets a solid 11 hours at night. So my advice is stay offering it as long as you can.

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Yeah this is good advice. Ours is 2 now and still goes for a 2 -3 hour nap most days. If she doesn’t get that she’ll be in foul form and overtired when it comes to putting her down later that night. The 2 or 3 hrs during the day is great and allows time to throw on the spuds, do a bit of DIY or watch a bit of sport. Congrats @Fat_Pox . Great news. You’ll be well looked after. While the honeymoon period may end with the wife it never ends with a daughter.

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Our 18 month old is on 2/2.5 hours a day. About two months doing that. Crèche drove the change to a one stop strategy

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About 2 and a half our wan went out of them. Two is young to give it up. The naps are key to life.

You might consider shortening them though. As in waking them up after an hour or something.

Also fuck off to mumsnet

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They’re all different

But we stopped the maps before 2 and a half, made the mistake beninga much easier for us

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A Twitter response -
Our lady won’t go down for her nap until she has had her croissant, babychino and a flick through the days newspapers. We usually debate a topic from the news as a family, each taking a counter argument, before putting her down. We feel the intellectual stimulation really knocks her out.

Reality - she has bate something off her brothers head and fucked her snack all over the floor. Threats of Santa coming back to take her toys or Granny being upset with her are met with disinterest and demands for her crayons so she can write on the walls.

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Our lad is gone 3.
If they let him nap in crèche we can’t get the fucker to go to bed or sleep before 10pm.

Cut the Naps out as early as possible @Chucks_Nwoko ( like at 30 months or so )

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Our one won’t sleep in creche. We’ve had her home sick for over a week now. They sent her home sick last Monday and she had a few horrendous nappies for a day after. We just throw the clothes in the bin with the nappy. 3 hours nap every day though. She does sleep better at night after creche but they’re all different.

Sick again yesterday and more of the same nappies. Like porridge. Probably lucky she’s not puking it up. She fucked her fruit on the floor there this mornin. I let a roar at her so she ran to Mammy for cover while I cleaned up. ‘Bed now’ says I so she grabbed Panda and came over to me with the head down. Not a peep out of her since. In since 11.

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cc @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy fast fashion etc

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Different for everyone. Our wan stopped napping just before she turned 2. She’d think she’s missing out on something if she did :rofl:

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i only became a green zealot recently but i think disposable nappies are a scourge, i have no doubt that if i had awoken 10 years ago I would have used cloth nappies on my baby kids & would have had no problem convincing @thebrisbanelion to do so as well.

any body who uses disposable nappies these days is a cunt

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A plastic nappy sack for each nappy and item of poo stained clothes.

You sure you not a closet Bohs fan

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:face_with_symbols_over_mouth: :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

Lads, I don’t know how ye do it…. Nap times, shitty nappies, Readybrek or Frosties, school/crèche or not, thieving crèche owners, tantrums, early risings, Fragglerock, fuck me I don’t know how we reared our hooligans…

Here’s your breakfast, come back before dark, the calves will need feeding…

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You’d be arrested today for that carryon. Local ‘mummy’ groups and Facebook parenting groups would have images of you up all over the place for neglect.

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