I noticed with my son when he hit 2 years old he was done with naps. He would refuse to take them and get up, come back into the living room and resume what he was doing before. Now the only time he will take a nap is if I completely wear him out. Even then he sometimes won't nap. He's 3 now.
I guess some kids grow out of the napping stage earlier than others. I know this isn't much in the way of advice...
I hope you're able to find something that helps :)

I agree... when my daughter was about 24 months she went from getting sleepy after being awake for 4 hours, to getting sleepy after 5 or six hours. Sometimes a little adjustment like that is needed.

Good luck :)

Maybe you can try putting on some soft music and make sure the rooms is really dark. You could also look into crib tents. It's just a mesh type fabric that you attach to the crib and it zips open and closed. My son stopped napping at 2 1/2. He is 3 now. So he just goes to bed by 7:30-8 o'clock. Hope that helps. Good luck :)

Thanks for all the great advice. This week I have putting my son (the instigator) down for a nap first. Then after about 10 minutes, I will lay my daughter down in her bed. It has worked this week for me so I'm crossing my fingers we can keep it up!

You sound like you have hopefully found a solution, which I do hope is still working. When my twins were about 15 months, they decided, well my daughter more than my son, that they just weren't going to sleep. My girl would climb out of her crib and bring toys to my boy (who couldn't climb out of his crib yet) and they would just be playing.

I was very pregnant with my 3 baby by then, so I needed the break. I would take what ever toy they were playing with and take it out of the room, and they wouldn't be allowed to have that toy back until the next day, and I put my daughter back in her crib and said they had to take a nap or they wouldn't get the toy back for longer. I had to do this several times, and add a crib tent to my daughters crib, but eventually they got that naps weren't an option.

Now they just turned 2 and naps are a breeze.

Oh my. this just happened to me with my 23 month old girls and it has been a nightmare. My sanity depends on nap time. H climbed out first and then taught M to do the same. The cribs came down that day. Crib tents have been recalled which is what we had planned to use. So i put their crib mattresses on the floor and was amazed that they did fine at night. Nap time was another story and they went days with no nap. I tried to convince them of "quiet time" but they start fighting if left awake in a room too long together. M really does much better without a nap but H absolutely needs a nap. I tried to put H in the room alone and she freaked out as her sister was not in with her. Yesterday I told H that she was going to take a nap and M would take a nap on the sofa.. My husband watched M while I stayed with H who had a tantrum for about 40 minutes. But I did not leave her alone. I held her and made her stay on the mattress. She fought and fought and I just held and loved her until she wore herself out and finally slept. Today I gave H the warning that she would sleep in her bed and M would sleep on the sofa. When I put her in her room she cried for about 20 minutes and went to sleep. i sat with M and read to her and amazingly she fell asleep too. I just laid her down on the sofa and both girls slept. It will be easier for H every day as she adjusts to her new routine and once in a while we might get a nap out of M as well. Halellula. Good luck.

Thanks for all the advice! My twins are now 2 1/2 and things are so much better. When they were first climbing out, I was desperate for naps. I had a 3 month old to take care of as well and was both emotionally and physically drained. It was a nightmare for about 2 weeks. Finally I decided they did not have the option to not nap.

My twins are like little monkeys and climb on everything including the kitchen table. Because of this, we were still using high chairs with belts to lock them in. After lunch, I would turn on a movie in the family room which can be seen from the kitchen. I would take the baby to my bedroom and make them stay in their high chairs until they fell asleep. Once asleep, I was able to move them to their beds on most days. After a week, they got used to that routine and it worked for about 4 or 5 months. Now that my baby is older, we needed to get him out of our room so he is sharing with my daughter and her twin brother is now in a room with his older brother. They had a difficult week being separated but now things are so much easier. They can nap in separate rooms and usually will go down for a nap easily since they don't have someone to play with.

Separating them was the best thing for us. Life is a lot more pleasant these days now that naps are regular again.

Good luck to anyone just entering this phase of climbing out. It is awful, but just remember it is only temporary.