If you were to believe all that you read about naps, you would spend the first years life doing nothing but carefully orchestrating them.
We like to parent on intuition, but it can be hard not to get caught up in all of the advice out there, but apparently all the advice out there is for people who are content to never leave their home after a baby.
I was perplexed by the whole thing. What do you mean they should nap primarily in their cribs? They nap all the time. No thank you!
So like a lot of parenting advice out there we ignored it. West has napped for hundreds of hours on trails and in the car. At times his preference for naps on the move may have made it harder to get him down in the crib, it was worth every mile spent outdoors. Kids are really pretty adaptable.
I find myself pondering about how people have raised kids over time. It was often on the move. No internet to tell you one right way of doing things. Again, instinct.
I like to stay closer to my gut if I can, I hope it will encourage West to trust his. It’s easy to be pretty disconnected from that these days. Naps are also a microcosm for a lot of things related to rearing kids on the move and in the wild. Follow your compass. Follow theirs.
