Naps. Your life revolves around them in the same way that it does around diapers. It's just as important in its own way, but in another, more horrible, way... naps are worse. Yes, you think, naps sound awesome. My kid is sleeping and quiet. I get to do things like answer emails, take showers and change out of that spit-stained sweatshirt. But the nap is a cruel mistress. Because it's essentially sleep-training that's happening here. A kid who naps well, sleeps well. A kid who gets his nap is well-rested and generally happy. But there's a catch... always a catch.

Suppose you are out and about with your kid, maybe with family, maybe with friends... and it's getting late in the day. You are always thinking, "He's missing his nap, but we don't want to just leave, we've only been at this park/party/house for an hour!" So you stay. And he falls asleep in the car on the way home at 5pm. Cue the horror movie music, because your evening is now destroyed.

You forgot about this, didn't you? The missed nap? The HORROR of the missed nap? Falling asleep in the car too late in the afternoon, waking up at, like 7, and no effin' way is he going back to sleep till 11pm. Then he will sleep too late in the am, and be unable to fall asleep for his next scheduled nap... you remember now, don't you.

Yes. You do.