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Between 2 and 3 years of age, children need to sleep between 9 and 13 hours a day. The most common is that they take a nap for 2-3 hours after eating and the rest at night. Some children hate naps. If you still do not nap your child is not irritable or apathetic, do not worry or force him to sleep. If very long naps and at night you trouble sleeping, try to reduce the hours of siesta. Some children between 2 and 3 years are very rigid with respect to the rituals of sleep. Sleep rituals help children overcome the fears of the dark, night, solitude … fears that often arise between the first and second year and that are common to bedtime. Once purchased the right habits of sleep, ideally dispense with the rituals to sleep.

Although, in general, between 2 and 3 years, children tend to sleep without difficulty, it is not uncommon for some children resist going to bed or that, once in bed, gets up or cries. Many times, despite being sleepy, the children’s desire to continue with the elderly, or anxiety that causes them to think of separating from them, shall be liable to fatigue. Some children from 2 to 3 years and have fear of the dark, relatively common after 4 years and which has been said that, at bottom, is nothing to fear of abandonment. In these cases, put a light socket in the room or leave the door ajar can be very helpful for the child to overcome his fear. When all is said and done, it is only a transitional stage and within the ordinary.

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