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⌈ Secret Post #5186 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"Do healthy 7 year olds usually take 2 hour naps in the middle of the day?" isn't exactly "what's the best way to discipline my child?" You're not going to get a philosophical debate, because the answer is clearly no. You're acting like children are some kind of magical creature where no records exist on how to find or keep one.

[(Anonymous)]

Except some kids do. It's not USUAL, but it can happen. Kids sleeping patterns are very individual. My kid was sleeping through the night by 9 weeks, unusual but not unheard of. My friend's kid only sleeps 5 hours a day and has done since the age of 3 - again weird but not unheard of. My other friend's kid would happily nap for 2 hours in the middle of the day and they're 10.

Kids are variable. It's only through having one and interacting with other parents that you really get a feel for what's normal and unusual. And the problem with normal is there are so few kids that actually fit it.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, I agree with AYRT. When you're writing a child character in fiction, aim to represent the norm unless you have a specific reason not to. Like, if you specifically want to signal that the kid is unusually advanced in an area, then sure, write them as unusually advanced in that area. But if you write your child character as routinely taking two hour naps in the middle of the day, it will come across like you're infantilizing them and don't have much concept of what is developmentally typical for a child of that age.

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Not the point I was making. Of course you represent the 'norm', it's just that's hard to divine unless you're actually a parent.

[(Anonymous)]

Da but it’s also such a specific assumption to make that it seems possible they wouldn’t have read anything contrary? Like people write “I put my kid down for a nap” but they don’t note an exact timing and someone figures “well my naps are an hour and kids sleep more, right” and writes that in. It’s a bit silly blind spot to not check it but I can see how it got assumed. (Or they had a bad sense of their own naps as kids - I was shocked as a kid when I was told that our nap time at school was only 15 minutes, I thought we had been sleeping for at least 30-45 minutes each time and would probably have believed it to this day.)