Here's another post from our friends at Circle of Moms! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and motherhood stories from our partners at Circle of Moms, including this post from Kim Westerman about giving up your toddler's nap. It's one o'clock in the afternoon — do you know where your toddler is? All his friends are fast asleep, napping soundly after lunch. But your little one is Read more

Sleep deprivation is just part of the newborn process, but Mommy Chelsea seems to have found a solution. Nap Time comes from the Mommies blog at OnSugar. The best part about being a mother? Nap time! Especially during that first year, and if you can afford to be a stay at home mom! Whether you're breastfeeding or using formula, taking care of your little one is a lot of hard work. I've found that Read more

Let them sleep on it! Here's some more incentive for getting your lil one down for a nap. A new study by researchers at the University of Arizona in Tucson has found that infants learn better when they nap within four hours of learning new information. According to the findings, tots who received daytime naps soon after learning a new lesson exhibited abstraction, an advanced level of learning Read more

I hated it when my preschool and kindergarten teacher cued us to take out our nap mats — why nap when there was coloring to be done? Before I blame them for ruining my chance at becoming the next Picasso, it looks like they might have been on to something: a new study suggests that an afternoon nap might make you smarter. Pitting nappers against non-nappers, researchers gave a group of 39 Read more

Mommy Dearest, When is it time to give up or cut down on a nap? My three-year-old son has always been a great snoozer and stills takes a two-to-three hour nap every day. My issue is that every evening he fights us so hard when it is time to go to bed that he ends up staying up well-past a reasonable bedtime. On the one or two occasions that we have had to skip his nap (due to birthday parties Read more