No more naps ?

Question

My 2.5 year old son has been fighting naps for the last 3 months. Now if he actually does nap during the day he won’t sleep until after midnight, and even that’s a struggle to get him down. If he doesn’t nap he usually goes to bed very easily around 9pm, but he’s extremely grumpy all day, rubbing his eyes, etc. 
Anyone else? I thought toddlers were supposed to nap for their development so I’m a little concerned about this. Also, it’s driving me insane to be stuck at home with a grumpy toddler all day lol.

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Mine started fighting naps in August.
First it was equally about expressing her will and a very curious nature - she's interested in everything.
I stuck to naps because I know that, while there are exceptions, toddlers need their naptime.
Half a year later, here's what I learned:
Usually she wakes up on her own between 7-7:30 but some days she's ready to sleep until 9. If I let her do that she'll definitely skip her nap.
It's a lot easier for her to nap if she gets at least an hour of outside playtime during the morning. Running around on fresh air, open sky, chilly weather will tire her out differently than anything we can do inside. Even if it's just half hour after lunch, it's worth it. (We're lucky enough to have a yard, I really appreciate it a lot in this lockdown.)
If it's one of those days, there's nothing I can do about it, she'll skip her nap and be impossible to handle from early evening, but she will be able to go to sleep an hour earlier than usual and still sleep until the usual time in the morning.
She only ever gets night terror after she skips a nap. Thankfully it's rare even then. She skips a nap about one a week on average but only has night terrors once in every two or three months.
If she skips her maps twice in a row, she'll purposefully try the third time. That's a horrible battle of wills, when she's exhausted but visibly sticking to her decision.
It's very clear when she's about to skip her nap - no matter what I do, she does not look like she's about sleep, just waiting for naptime to be over. As opposed to the times when she wants to skip, when she's blinking long blinks, yawns, looks somewhat doozy if I manage to get her to lie down. In those cases, I'll keep her in bed for as long as it takes her to fall asleep. If she's not at all tired, I'll keep her in bed for a while, and when she's after some rest, it's behaving patiently, I'll let her go play.
Limiting screen time to be max 1 hour and be long before naptime seems to help.
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I hope these above are at least somewhat helpful.
♥

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My daughter stopped napping at 2 i thought she wasnt ready to drop her nap and i definitely wasnt 😂 but she refused and if we did manage to get her down she wouldnt go to bed until late so decided it wasnt worth the fight! So she hasnt been napping since september, pretty used to it now and she sleeps very well at night plus got a 15 month old that still naps so i get some quality 1 on 1 with her now 😁

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Mine is 2.5 and hasn't napped in a month or two. He was super grumpy at first but it was worth it over spending hours at night getting him in bed. He is used to it now and isnt grumpy anymore. Some days he doesn't feel good or didn't sleep well so he'll try to nap I'll let him sleep around an hour.

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My almost 3 year old has never really napped. When she does want to it is around 4pm and too late to nap. When I would try earlier she would never sleep. By evening she can be unbearable at times but we just never could work out a nap schedule.

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My son is still taking naps daily. He usually naps for 2 to 3 hours and goes to bed at 8pm. He has skipped his nap once and he was a complete nightmare. He has only fought his nap once or twice when we put him down too late. I just make him stay in his bed until naptime is over if he is fighting it.

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