3 hour naps?!? I wish I had experienced that one at least once. Even as an infant my child never napped and if on those rare occasions where she finally did collapse, it was never for more than an hour/hour and half tops. Now DD will be turning 4 and has been going to a school that has a required nap time. Bhaha ... good luck with that. Once in a blue moon DD will actually take a nap at school and this is with the teacher sitting on the floor patting her back. The funny/strange thing is I just picked her up from school and on the way home she exclaimed that she wants to go to the public school by our house. I questioned why and the response was because she won't have to nap. I think she is out of luck on that one. Might be time for me to feel out the teacher and see if they are pressuring her to nap. I made it abundantly clear that DD is not a napper but she has moved up in class over the summer and the new teacher might not have that information.
Oh and the positive side for the non-napper ... yes I actually said positive side ... is they have a longer night time sleep pattern. Not saying DD's is extreme but we have always had a full night time sleep pattern from her from age 4 months on. We even get an early night out of it all since her bedtime is 7:30. I'm not completely convinced she sleeps all the way through the night because on the few occasions that I've had to sleep with her when on trips she would sit up in bed around 2 am and quietly play for about an hour before going back to sleep, but the saving grace is she has always been able to entertain herself for long periods of time and has never gotten out of bed looking for someone else to entertain her. Knock on wood that stays the same.
