Should my child switch to one nap when he goes to daycare?

Should my child switch to one nap when he goes to daycare?

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If your child is in daycare for part of the week and at home the rest; the napping schedule will be different. It probably would be better and easier to actually intergrate the daycare routine into your home routine. Because in the daycare, all the children are going to sleep and so the child is modeling other children's behavior and sees that this is the routine. It might be easier to use the interia of that situation, specifically if your child spends more days in the daycare than at home to just adopt the daycare routine. Because it will make the return to transitioning easier when they go to daycare because daycare is less flexible than at home.