do you force your child/kids to sleep during afternoon?

hi, as i observed to my sister she force her child to sleep during afternoon,because she wanted her child to grow taller because sleeping can help the body of human to make it grow tall faster.

I was a kid who did not know *how* to sleep, and as a result, my mother often got criticized as if it was somehow her fault for being too easy on me or not being "soothing" enough or something silly like that. (We later found out that my brain doesn't produce enough melatonin, and so I have taken sleeping pills ever since I got to be a certain age - otherwise I would never go to sleep unless I am just whooped from exhaustion and goodness knows when that will happen!) My mother almost forbade me to nap in the afternoon. I always such an active kid that hated sleeping, so it was never something that I did unless I was exceptionally worn out, but if I ever did happen to accidentally fall asleep in the afternoon, I would be up all night because afternoon naps would throw off my sleeping pattern. I've never been a particularly heavy sleeper either. If I was awaken, that was it, even if I'd only been asleep for several minutes. When I would sleep over with friends, they could just fall right asleep at a certain time of night like clockwork. I still to this day don't know how they did it as I still cannot just relax myself right to sleep like that - I need a sleeping pill and even that takes a while to start working. I won't even begin to elaborate on how much trouble a sleeping problem plus several anxiety disorders has caused me - it's a whole other story - but long story short, when you're just a kid you're between a rock and a hard place because you don't mean to make your parents' lives so difficult yet at the same time you feel like you're being held responsible for something you can't help when all your peers get to do things later at night all because "they'll fall asleep when they're supposed to." So to answer your question, I do not have any kids, but my mother would never force me to nap in the afternoon, and did not like me doing it on the extremely rare occasions that I did. You have to understand, though, I was one of those exceptional cases because I had melatonin and serotonin imbalances (and no, I am not self-diagnosed), so this likely won't apply to most children.

My mother says it depends on the baby. When my sister was in Kindergarten (age five) she still needed a nap in the afternoon, so she would come home from school and take a name. As for me, did not need afternoon naps, once I was over three years old, so I just stayed up all day. If a child needs a nap, let them have it. If a child does not need a nap, don't force it.

my kids napped until they were 4 in the afternoon for an hour or so but many kids that i know of didnt need a nap from the age of 2 on. i guess it depends on how the child is. some just dont need that extra nap in the afternoon.

Come to think about it, I think my mom made me sleep during afternoons to keep me from ruining her day, kinda like a day off or something. Although maybe it's healthy to sleep during afternoons. I think I heard it from some news. I'm not sure.