No nappers

[sympkin]

Depends on how early she is losing her shit. Half-hour early? Just put her to bed. A couple hours early? I try to push it a bit so she doesn't throw off her sleep cycle for the next day.

[daffy2k]

SS - if she's losing it,I usually send her to bed. Normal bedtime here is between 6:30 and 7. With no nap she has gone down as early as 5:45 if she's really losing it. I find when she's that tired though she tends to wake up more often. I Rarely have to actually go in to her room, but she seems to wake up every 45 min or so and cry for 2-3 min then go back to sleep. Usually 2-3 times and then we don't hear from her until morning

[amv]

Bedtime is 830, I bump it though if needed.
Can't deal with the crankiness some days.

[musicalsilver]

Bedtime is already a little flexible - at sometime between 7:30 and 8:30. The couple days when LO has had only a 20 min snooze (or otherwise eschewed a proper nap), we aim for the earlier timepoint. Generally though we remain very flexible and play things by LO's cues on a normal day. If he's totally melting down, bed it is, pretty much regardless of time.

[vasc]

Bedtime is between 6-7. When she doesn't nap, it's closer to 6:00.

[subliminalrabbit]

I try not to move it up more than 30 minutes, because otherwise E will wake up hellaciously early. If he's a total nightmare, I'll let him watch some Sesame Street to calm down before bed. We don't do much tv so it's a big treat and he'll usually chill out and watch.

[lioness13]

I move it up, well she does. When she doesn't nap she is too tired and miserable on the drive home from daycare that she falls asleep. Sometimes she won't wake up. Maximum is about an hour earlier.

[mufflerlove]

I think my LO is trying to drop naps. Last week we had 3 or 4 no nap days. Typically we start bedtime at 8:00-8:30. When it's no nap it's more like 7:15-7:30. Actually two of the days last week she wasn't even that cranky after not napping but other times she is. She goes to bed so much easier with no nap. I still think she should be napping though. This mama has to work while she naps.

[michelin82]

When Brady naps, he still wants to be in bed by 6:30. Kid likes his sleep! If/when he skips his nap, he's SO tired by 5:30. I try to get dinner in him as quickly as possible and put him down as soon as he's done eating.

I voted yes, change bedtime. But we don't change it by much (it's hard to when his normal bedtime is 6:30 and we both work full time!).