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My daughter just got a toddler bed because she was trying to crawl out of her crib at night. She goes to sleep in it just fine at night, we tell her it is bedtime the first time she gets up and then after that if she gets up we just put her back in bed. She usually only gets up once or twice at bedtime. The problem I am having is getting her to sleep in it at nap time. She is 18 months and still needs naps during the day,  but since she got the toddler bed she just won't sleep during the day. She is up and playing with her toys every chance she gets. Does anyone have advice on how I can get her to take a nap? I need her to sleep so I can get stuff done during the day and so she won't be so crabby by dinner time

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Do you have another space in your house for her toys? We have a playroom and their bedroom. Their bedroom for sleeping so they always knew if they were in their bedroom they were to be sleeping. I never allowed them to have toys in bed only one stuffed animal (if they wanted one most the time they didn't). This is something that helped us. Good luck.
Miranda

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I wish we had another place for toys! Our house is pretty tiny, there's not really any extra room for anything. I ended up putting her in her playpen yesterday, but that is kind of a last resort because she can climb out of it if she tries, she just doesn't know it yet  

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For such tiny people kids sure take up a lot of space I am sure probably three adults could live in your house but add a child and your house shrinks! Before we moved to the house that we live in now we lived in a house that had two bedrooms both close to the front door and the street upstairs with the master bedroom and family/tv room downstairs. We had to take up half our living room for a nursery area because I didn't want the baby so far away and by the front door. One idea that I have seen is to get one of the cube shelves with the baskets and place it in a area as kind of a room divider like in a small area behind a couch then fill the baskets with toys your little girl will have her owe little place and toys are out of her room. Otherwise with no other option to take her toys out of her room how important is it for her to take a nap as long as she is in her room so you have a little time to get things done. I fought my oldest to take naps until I realized one day that I was spending the time I needed to get things done just trying to get him to sleep. I finally found that if he missed a nap once in awhile that just meant that he would go to bed earlier and still got my time. Now this wasn't always the best solution because then he was cranky or fell asleep right before dinner but I didn't spend time fighting or wasting time trying to get him to sleep. Sorry I don't have any better ideas just a couple things that helped survive this. My oldest is 6 now and for the most part doesn't take naps and my three year old is getting to the point where he doesn't nap everyday so that is a new stage for my how to get things done when the sweet lil' monsters follow you around ALL DAY long Good luck hope you find something that works.
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Thank you for the advice Miranda I think you're definitely right about how much of a waste of time it is to fight over naps and I can still get things done with her in her bedroom. I never had a problem with my older girl so I probably should have expected it since they are polar opposites in every other way too.