day sleep nightmares!

Just adding this in to see if anyone else shares my dilemma or has been through it...

G & T are just about old enough to go without their day sleeps, usually in the weekend if it's been a quiet day they don't have one and then sleep from 6-7pm. However when they do have an active day they get really tired and do need one, they will usually sleep for about 1.5-2 hours. The only thing is that after this sleep they are up until 9 or 10 at night! We still put them to bed at around 8:30 (latest) but they are awake for yonks! I went to bed before they were asleep last night... at 9:30!

We have been in this stage for at least 6 months now...

Is this normal? Is there something I can do??

Flag the daysleep. Seriously, it is not worth it. Plan some quiet time, reading books, something low key at their usual nap time.

I battled this for a few months before I finally gave in and dropped the day sleep. The first week or so I had to actively keep DD awake - I kept her busy with activities over the time when she would have otherwise been asleep. After that she just got into a rythm where she was having enough sleep at night (from falling asleep so much earlier) so didn't need sleep during the day. It was so much easier than what I had imagined and I wondered why I battled for so long to get DD to sleep at night instead of just cutting out the day sleep when she clearly didn't need it.

we are the same here - if eden has a day nap then she is up really late. It wont to have an earlier bed time if they are really tired.