This too shall pass, I hope.

Zach has decided that naps are no longer something that he needs and it’s killing me. Ever since he was an infant I have looked forward to his nap time. When he was really young and not sleeping through the night I used his nap time to take a short nap myself. As he got older and started sleeping through the night I used that time to cook or clean up the house or even to catch an uninterrupted hour of reading or watching TV. So the first time Zach skipped his nap I mourned the loss of my quiet time and hoped that it wouldn’t become a habit. Now after a week in which he has napped a grand total of one time, for less than an hour, I’m finding that there is a bigger problem than loosing my quiet time. Zach without his daily nap is a total terror. After 6pm he starts getting cranky and whiny, he wont listen to anyone and all he does is yells no, no, no, to anything that we say. He doesn’t want to eat his dinner, fights me the whole time that I brush his teeth, and then he is so overly tired that he fights going to bed.
I just don’t know what to do with him anymore. I’ve tried everything to get him to nap and nothing works but obviously he still needs the extra sleep each day. I’m at the end of my rope and I can only hope that this is just a phase and that he will start napping again soon before I go completely insane.