Every day since has been hell.

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Every day since has been hell.

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BeneficialType6789@reddit

Born in ‘82. In kindergarten we napped on these foam/plastic mats that we also used in gym. They were red or blue and could Velcro together. I loved naps then and still do.

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Several-Till2592@reddit

Ahh…remember those.

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ComprehensiveRead435@reddit

We had carpet samples being from the carpet capital of the world. There was only one blue one in the stack and we would try to get that one at nap time.

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PriorRelative6012@reddit

Yep. Kindergarten plastic covered foam mats

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SuspiciousClub8382@reddit

It was the only time Mrs. Steven’s could drink alcohol and by the time nap time came around she was needing a drink!!!

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Ashlynne42@reddit

Yep. One nap-time, though, our teacher called us up one-by-one to give us a quick color test. I felt so stupid not being able to see the difference between blue and purple while the lights were dimmed.

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Prodiuus@reddit

In kindergarten. Everyone fought over the dark blue rug square. All the rest were that shitty brown or speckled grey.

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Exotic_Page4196@reddit

Absolutely. Damn I miss it

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Whole_Engineer_3757@reddit

Yeah it was pretty good.

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

Born 1981. A carpet sample swatch, was a part of our kindergarten school supplies. I remember mine was an atrocious burgundy and was upset everyone else had more neutral colors. Also…how TF did we fit on a carpet sample?

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vabello@reddit

We had padded mats that folded up. I think they were in three or four connected rectangles.

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit

Tri fold foam nap pad with the vinyl cover here too. In my memory they were all royal blue. Every single one. Surely they came in different colors?

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AccomplishedTap3267@reddit

We had some blue and some red I believe.

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Ltimbo@reddit

Yup. That’s what I remember, tri-fold, all blue.

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Late_Can6807@reddit

Southerner here. Tri-fold. Blue on one side, red on the other. I couldn’t STFU 😂

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South_Tea5210@reddit

Yes they were all blue! Cold and vinyl that you stuck to once it got warm.

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fidgetypenguin123@reddit

Lucky lol. We had these hard white plastic cot bed things.

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PistolGrace@reddit

Easy to wipe down. No pillow. I don't think I ever napped unless I wasn't feeling good.

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goforsamford@reddit

The carpet square was for circle. Naps were on something more like a gym mat, or just your blanket.

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AdComprehensive7939@reddit

Memory unlocked, holy moly! We had these for story time though, not naps.

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butterednoodlelovers@reddit

We had pillows. They were made out of superhero fabric, batman, superman and spider man. There was only one damn wonderwoman pillow. Us little girls would line up early to try to get that pillow. I remember thinking the rule should be if you are first in line then you get that pillow. But it was a free-for-all fight once the door was unlocked. If I was first in line I'd fight like a feral, savage biting, hair pulling and so on to get it. If I missed being first I'd grab a superman pillow. And I napped, I've always loved sleep.

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WallStreetAnus@reddit

We used small rugs. I want to say it was slightly longer than a large bath mat but who knows the exact size. It was woven with different colors something very 70s style.

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itslonelyinthevoid@reddit

That’s what I had in Kindergarten 85, my younger brother had a padded long roll up mat in 90

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attgig@reddit

My parents bought me a bathroom mat. It was soft and fluffy and loved it...

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mikeumm@reddit

You had your own carpet square? They just busted out a whole bunch and you hoped you got a decent one.

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Baelgul@reddit

We brought a towel from home for it when I was in preschool.

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

Maybe to curtail spread of lice? No idea. I assume there were community use squares available. My mom, being a teacher, always followed the rules given by other teachers.

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CypressRootsMe@reddit

I just remember a towel. Maybe there was something under it but I don’t remember anything

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HRShovenstuff1@reddit

Yep, and when I was in Pre-K and daycare before that my mom worked there so usually her or one of her coworkers would put me to sleep by running their fingers through my hair, and I love that to this day.

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Bay-Area-Tanners@reddit

I never napped at naptime - I did spend a lot of that time kicking my legs in the air and looking at my shoes. But if my work would enact a naptime, I would take full advantage of it.

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Teddy-Buddy-7413@reddit

Me too. Hated nap time.

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friendlynbhdwitch@reddit

How are you all remembering this? I have like 3 memories from kindergarten and they are all awful.

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vabello@reddit

I have many memories of my preschool before kindergarten.

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friendlynbhdwitch@reddit

Is that normal? Do most people remember that far back? I need to do some googling.

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kristosnikos@reddit

I have memories from being 2 years old. Hell, I remember dreams I had when I was around 3.

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InterestingTry5190@reddit

I have clear memories from preschool and before.

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cRaZyDaVe23@reddit

Believe it or not, I remember deciding that walking was superior to crawling... memory works weird with my umm...creatively wired brain.

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Ltimbo@reddit

I remember putting on a shirt for the first time by myself. I showed my mom and she just didn’t give a shit.

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Lucky-Remote-5842@reddit

I clearly remember standing up in my crib on Christmas Eve and seeing the red light from Rudolph's nose go across my window and hearing a jingling bell. Later in life my dad got a kick out of me bringing this up. He said he didn't think there was any way I would remember that. I couldn't have been more than 2.5. But he confirmed that I wasn't making it up. 😉😉

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Kryptin206@reddit

I have memories of my uncle who died of cystic fibrosis a few months before I turned 3.

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shankthedog@reddit

I have memories of before turning one. My mom didn’t believe me. I told her to lay out of the apartment which we moved from right when I turned one and she didn’t have any pictures of the apartment.

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noblewind@reddit

Same! Funny it took describing the layout to be believed.

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cortesoft@reddit

Memories are strange. Often times, our memories from our early life is actually remembering the remembering… if we think about our childhood memories often, you are more likely to retain the memory.

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noblewind@reddit

But also the more you think about a memory the more likely it corrupted by the remembering. Like my first memory was as a baby in a house we moved out of before I was 6 months, and I can remember what I wore, what my mom said, and the house layout but I cannot remember it without a more current version of my mom arguing I didn't remember then relenting that I did because my details were too accurate.

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tamale@reddit

This doesn't seem strange at all to me. The act of remembering clearly can strengthen the neural pathways

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cortesoft@reddit

Right, but it explains why some people have memories of that age and some don’t. Also, it means the memories can be surprisingly inaccurate, even though we might feel like the memory is vivid. The memory is shaped by how we remember it, and what narrative we give as we are remembering it. I know I had a few pretty vivid memories as a young child, but then doing some research on what actually happened (checking dates, looking at pictures, etc) shows that a lot of the vivid details are not true (or are combined from other memories at different times)

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tamale@reddit

Yeah totally agree

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noblewind@reddit

I have a memory of a house we didn't live in after I was 6 months old. My mom didn't believe me but I described the whole house layout. Granted it was a 30 second snapshot then my next memory is closer to 2-3 years.

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Alijony@reddit

Born 84, I remember my first day of kindergarten. I remember preschool even.

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cRaZyDaVe23@reddit

I remember coming home and being pretty pissed that no it wasn't just for that day.

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

Me too. I can still remember conversations I had with classmates and incidents on the playground. Excellent long-term memory, but my short term memory has become crap, hehe.

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rootbeersmom@reddit

What is your earliest memory and how old were you? If you don’t t mind me asking

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madsci@reddit

Preschool, and before I started preschool. I have several clear memories of the construction of a room addition that I know started when I was about two years and three months old, and I have a couple of memories that I know were from before construction started. Kindergarten memories are a little sparse but I have several clear ones.

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AwkwardFactor84@reddit

It wasn't that far back. I had nap time in grade school in the 80's.

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0_Tim-_-Bob_0@reddit

40+ years is a long time outside Rivendale.

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AwkwardFactor84@reddit

*Erebor. Check the beard bro

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BoringExperience5345@reddit

That’s really interesting. I definitely remember preschool.

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit

I have vivid and complete memories from around 3 and up.

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Bahariasaurus@reddit

Yeah I just cant remember what happened last week.

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9fingerjeff@reddit

I remember going to 2 different preschools and I remember daycare before that.

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TappyMauvendaise@reddit

Me too. Since age 4.

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Ltimbo@reddit

I know that people who grew up in unstable environments have fewer childhood memories than those who didn’t so if that’s your case then I’m sorry to hear. But yes, it’s normal to have a lot of memories from as far back as kindergarten. Speaking for myself I remember holidays, parties with friends, many of the kids I went to grade school with. That’s all normal. I don’t remember EVERY event but enough to put together a basic history of my life.

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Mysterious_Fennel459@reddit

Ya my two memories of kindergarten is walking by a fire alarm right when it went off, scaring the living hell out of me. It was my first fire drill and I was by myself with no idea what to do so I ran around and got lost in the building and someone had to come find me hiding under some stairs. The 2nd memory was probably the end of the first day, getting on the bus, and the driver didnt know my address and neither did I so I gave him some random number and street name and he drove me to some abandoned looking shack in an alley. It sounds a lot more sketch than it really was now that I'm typing that out.

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violetrose223@reddit

Same but one of em is having to sleep on the floor like a dog lol. And then snack time and an annoying kid I didnt like

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violetrose223@reddit

Oh this was pre k though

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coffeeplzme@reddit

I don't remember anything. Maybe some images, but I can't be sure if they were real or when they took place.

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Temporary-Warning883@reddit

I remember in preschool I came back from the bathroom and I overheard the other girls saying they were gonna pretend not to be friends with me when I came back. So I didn’t go back. Also I remember in kindergarten I didn’t get a sticker one time at the end of class because I was talking (and I was very shy, not a talker type, idk why I was talking that time). Anyway those are my main preschool/kindergarten memories 😭

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ProjectMomager@reddit

I have maybe 1, and I think it’s because of a picture that “jogged” it…then I read down through the comments and am in complete shock at how much people remember. I just thought my husband had a great memory and I had a terrible one like a lot of other people…no, turns out lots and lots of people have vivid memories. Not me, boo.

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Echterspieler@reddit

I have plenty of memories from preschool too. I remember the names of some of the kids I went there with, the stuff we used to do, field trips we'd go on...

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FionaGoodeEnough@reddit

I have a couple memories from when I was not yet three, and I remember kindergarten.

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friendlynbhdwitch@reddit

Apparently, it’s normal for people to remember as far back as age 3. Though there’s some evidence that some may remember as young as 2.5 I remember the stories I was told about myself as a baby and toddler. And my brain does that thing where it makes me feel like I’m remembering the thing happening rather than remembering being told about it. And I remember smells and music.

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CypressRootsMe@reddit

I remember laying on my towel staring at the other kids and stuff in the room. I still rarely nap, but I would take a work mandate nap

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fidgetypenguin123@reddit

I'm wondering if the towel would be comfortable than this hard plastic cot type thing we had to lay on. Can't even remember if we had a blanket. Both aren't ideal but I'm curious lol.

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missLPS@reddit

Yes in kindergarten and we had mats to sleep on. Sometimes I wasn’t sleepy so I would just lay there until it was time to get up.

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DasKittySmoosh@reddit

we had mats to use, and I remember lying there with. my eyes open and getting into trouble for not napping I still don't nap unless I'm sick or incredibly exhausted (like kiddo woke up vomiting in the wee hours and I had to get up and do laundry instead of sleep), but I think a nap at work would do me wonders... even if I don't sleep

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CypressRootsMe@reddit

I don’t remember it being uncomfortable just boring

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blue_suavitel@reddit

Yeah we had to bring a towel to put over one of those folding mats

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I_Dream_Of_Oranges@reddit

Yeah I stopped napping at like age 2 (much to my mom’s dismay). So these kindergarten ‘naps’ were just me staring into space for half an hour. I just diagnosed with ADHD last year and I still don’t nap well now unless I’m sick, but if we had like a mandatory lie-down in the middle of the day for work I’d be all for it lol.

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ambercrayon@reddit

I was allowed to read instead and I always did

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Local_Debate_8920@reddit

They read to us. I remember listening to Charlotte's Web during nap time.

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AquaValentin@reddit

Same here. Both in pre-school and kindergarten. Never once had a second of sleep

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Ultimatesims@reddit

I had the same problem as a kid. But I went to bed at 8:00 and woke up between 5:00-6:00. No I am not tired after 10 hours of solid sleep. I had one kindergarten teacher help me write a poem during nap time. It got published in a collection our school put together.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

We could do absolutely nothing but think for an hour back then and be okay with it.

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tessathemurdervilles@reddit

One naptime i was bored and there was a plastic bead on the carpet next to my mat. Stuck that bad boy right up my nose. Teachers couldn’t get it out so they called the fire department and a fireman pinched the other nostril closed and had me blow. It was a pretty exciting day!

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Famous_Election_2024@reddit

I was sequestered in another room for being restless and was instructed to twiddle my thumbs in silence, since I wouldn’t cooperate. I remember this being the standard for me for that year. I was 4. But I remember the fruit punch was pretty awesome, and the erector set jungle gyms outside were equal parts thrilling and terrifying.

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FrequencyHigher@reddit

Same. Kindergarten nap time was like torture to my young ADHD brain.

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histprofdave@reddit

I have small memories of nap time from preschool and kindergarten. I always interpreted it as a punishment for some reason in my little kid psyche, so I usually cried.

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fidgetypenguin123@reddit

To me the whole experience of preschool was a punishment lol. I would cry at it all because I did not want to be there. My mom would pick me up half way through naptime and it was like getting bailed out of jail.

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lushico@reddit

I was the same. But I still can’t nap!

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bugorama_original@reddit

I too remember lying there awake. It’s wild to think this was ever a reasonable expectation of 5 year olds

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Silly_Relative_3761@reddit

Lol

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lizc40@reddit

Yes

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

We had half day kindergarten. I went home at noon.

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SeaMyLifeVest@reddit

Why are they all laying on their stomachs? That looks so uncomfortable.

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ms_sid_d@reddit

We had to bring a blanket to kindergarten and preschool, or a sleeping bag. I do remember napping most days. Little bodies need to grow fast hence the necessary naps. Still love napping to this day! 😉

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Illustrious_Mix8554@reddit

Yes and I wasn’t a fan of it. I could Never fall asleep.

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KeyWeek446@reddit

Kindergarten everyday. The nuns would step over us and we’d all look to see if they wore underwear.

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General_Mousse_861@reddit

After a small paper cup of grape juice and two graham crackers. But we got cots!

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exqvisitely@reddit

We had nap time in my Kindergarten class. I'm all for naps now, but I could never fall asleep in the middle of the day at that age. The teacher allowed me to read books at the book corner in our classroom as long as I was quiet as a mouse (which is my default setting), which I loved.

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AdSpiritual2594@reddit

We had to get a mat off the wall and then lay down. Idk why they did away with nap time, I feel like we’d all be better off if we still had a dedicated nap time.

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scotgekko@reddit

I never napped at nap time in kindergarten. I could kick my 5 year old self. 🤣

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MetaVulture@reddit

I miss nap time. Can we please have a standardized nap time again please

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bikeonychus@reddit

They do this in Quebec. My kid stopped naps completely at about 3 years old (normal for where I grew up), but they make them nap midday until age 5. Needless to say, it was a difficult time.

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Tripl3Dee@reddit

Kids napped in 1st grade? Kindergarten, sure.

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SaveusJebus@reddit

I vaguely remember nap time. I know my kids' school still has it bc they want parents to send in a small blanket or towel for them to lay on.

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TheCreatorGus@reddit

I was allowed to sit quietly and read a book. Otherwise Noone was having a nap.

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DottyDotz33@reddit

Yes and as soon as you finally fell asleep you have to get up lol

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missLPS@reddit

Yes in kindergarten and we had mats to sleep on. Sometimes I wasn’t sleepy so I would just lay there until it was time to get up.

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Kryptin206@reddit

I remember having to do it in pre-school, but not kindergarten.

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Coomstress@reddit

Yes but they gave us cots!

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s0_spoiled@reddit

My daughter was born in 2012. They did naps in kindergarten

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noblewind@reddit

I remember we had to bring a towel with our name on it. Absolutely no mats, because that isn't fair, and after nap was indoor playtime where we had a whole pretend house. I'm sure if I saw the classroom as an adult it was a pretend stove and a kid couch but as a kid it was a-mazing.

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nixter187@reddit

Man I hated having to take naps and now i wish we had nap time at work

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theoneandonly78@reddit

Yep, still remember my Kindergarten teacher Mrs Whitton would play the Nutcracker record during nap time.

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lisafer664@reddit

I always thought it was weird - napping in (pre)school. My mom told me I'd miss it once I got older. She was right. :|

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jesskeeding@reddit

Yes, ‘84 baby here, and I remember nap time in kindergarten being the first time I was violated by boys… some boys lied down below me, looked up my dress and laughed together while looking up my dress. I couldn’t make them stop. I don’t miss nap time

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RedDawnWlvrines@reddit

I remember in kindergarten being embarrassed because all the kids in class had foldable plastic sleeping mats while I had a homemade quilt my grandma made. One day I asked a friend if I could try his mat and it didn’t come close to the comfort of that quilt. It was an early lesson in quality.

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IamAhabTx@reddit

Took that time for granted. I wish I had that now as an adult at work.

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GuitarNerd_@reddit

No! I’ve heard so much about this concept from other people around my age, and my kids actually had nap time at that age as well. Guess my elementary school was different. I sure could use nap time nowadays though lol

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imlookingatthefjord@reddit

We didn’t have all day kindergarten so no. Half the kids went in the morning and half in the afternoon.

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Maleficent_Finger642@reddit

I hated nap time. Fought about it with teachers. But I'd always fall asleep quickly.

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joshhupp@reddit

We had little cots in preschool. I can still remember the blissful feeling of the teacher scratching my back as I slipped away

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Alarmed_Drop7162@reddit

The school teacher ordered the kids to nap. I never could. They ended up giving me more math work while the other children slept.

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SuperTerram@reddit

Yes. Did anyone else get folding cots?

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Cocoonthem00n@reddit

They had little cots for us in pre school!

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AncientMatter1042@reddit

Kindergarten.

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i--make--lists@reddit

Kindergarten was half-day. First grade was full-day. Neither had naps.

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KnucklesG-Roy@reddit

No, but “nap time” was a thing at a Montessori school I attended infrequently. I remember thinking that it was strange. It was very awkward and I never slept. And really, what good would do they do expect to come of this? If you have kids, you know that a child that only gets a 15 minute nap wakes up groggy and with an attitude not to be trifled with.

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CottageGrove81@reddit

Our naptime was right after noon recess. I remember waking up at 2:30 with lines in my face and everyone else at their desks. Teacher says "There he is!" I was so damn confused.

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Any-Internet-7796@reddit

I think we did in preschool I also recall in preschool getting all worked up every time they'd ask who needed to use "the rest room", because I thought they were taking naps in there. I'd refuse to go, and then ask to go to the bathroom later

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revdon@reddit

It looks like the aftermath of a cult.

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pinchenombre@reddit

Yep

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AquaValentin@reddit

I had nap time in kindergarten. None of us ever slept. I think it was an excuse for the teacher and her aid to take an hour break after lunch

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evolutionxtinct@reddit

Yup those worth days!

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_NoleFan6@reddit

We had Nap Time in Pre K and Kindergarten. In 1st and 2nd grade, they called it “Quiet Time” where we would lay our heads on the desk with the lights off lol. I believe naps in kindergarten stopped after 84 & 85 borns.

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OneManLost@reddit

I think I was in a fancy kindergarten, we slept on cots.

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MountainProduct5203@reddit

1979 here. 1st grade teacher - so 1985ish, used to have us put our heads down on our desk so she could have a cigarette in the back of the classroom

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_NoleFan6@reddit

Ha! My 1st grade teacher did the same shit. This was 1989ish. She called it “Quiet time” lol.

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tMoneyMoney@reddit

I’m convinced the whole naptime charade was just a way to give teachers a break. Kindergartners don’t need a nap in the middle of a 5 hour stretch. My daughters that age now and does fine without it. The only way she gets to lie down in the class is if she has a 102° fever and is waiting for me to pick her up.

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LittleWhiteBoots@reddit

Oh 100%. I taught kindergarten for many years up until recently. Our kinder was full day and I had up to 28 students and no aide. After lunch, I put on a PBS show like Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood or Curious George and turn the lights out. They have to lay down. They can sleep, or watch the show, but it’s 25 minutes of mandatory quiet. I would usually sit at my desk and take a little breather.

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GearJunkie82@reddit

We didn't know what we had until it was gone...

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ElizRaff@reddit

Yes! I hated nap time. I didn’t nap at home, why would I nap at school?

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andthrewaway1@reddit

they would make us and I was very hyperactive so it sucked for me

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Wooden_Gift3489@reddit

I am a 50 year old GenX'er. I still remember the weird little matts we used at nap time in kindergarten. I don't recall it in first grade, but possible.

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Capt_Vindaloo@reddit

Nursery nap time was my favourite. Everyone fought to get a beanbag otherwise you just had to share the big carpet.

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Teavangelion@reddit

It's so funny now that they made us do this when we would have benefited much more from having extra "run around screaming outside" time instead. 😂

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DetroitsGoingToWin@reddit

I remember very little about preschool but one thing they did that I recall is release us into an area with toys and cots. If you got a toy, you could play with it on your own quietly. If you didn’t get a toy, you had to lay in a cot. I remember the Sesame Street playhouse was the grand prize, but sometimes you’d run and grab a toy cow just so you didn’t get stuck on the cot.

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johnvalley86@reddit

Got a graham cracker and a box of chocolate milk right beforehand. Those were the days

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T-Bombie@reddit

I was gonna say yup! And right after lunch! Wasn't easy to fall asleep right after slamming some Ecto cooler and a little Debbie starcrunch...lol

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scrotanimus@reddit

I remember naps in preschool/daycare. I remember getting in trouble for talking because I wasn’t tired.

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HelicopterExact4621@reddit

No nap, but I remember that record player.

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Allrojin@reddit

Sure did, it was weird. I don't remember ever sleeping, but who knows.

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teachmamax2@reddit

I started teaching in 2000 and we still had nap time

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BlueBomber13@reddit

I was just thinking about this the other day too lol

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PineappleZest@reddit

I have vague memories of naptime in kindergarten, on some sort of coloured mats, but that's about it. No JK, so i would have been 4/5, and this would have been the late 80s. Wild that we (in Ontario, Canada) now have JK and some littles are 3 when they start (if they're Sept-Dec babies). There should definitely be nap time for them.

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djmagicio@reddit

Yes. And it was glorious.

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al_m1101@reddit

There are 2 kinds of kids, lol. I absolutely haaaated it!

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tevta_@reddit

I love it when I have something to brag about since I was born in socialist times in ex-Yugoslavia and we craved all the stuff that you were born with across the ocean. One thing that socialism was really good about (besides free and good healthcare) was free kindergarten with high standards of care. They designed beds for us to sleep on and they were so good and so well made that some kindergartens still have them https://rex-kralj.com/product/rex-small-daybed/ nowadays they cost an arm and a leg.

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MetalMonkey939@reddit

Yep!

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karaloveskate@reddit

Are they being made to lay face down like that? Or is it just a weird coincidence that all these kids sleep like that?

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MojoHighway@reddit

I guess I'm just old now, but I'm looking at all these kids and feeling remarkably grossed out on their behalf that they're all lying on mats on floors and said mats and floors are likely disgusting as fuck. I mean, I guess it was cool and all to be unafraid of germs at 5 and 6 and certainly great to have the opportunity to have a nap at school, but wow...I have 100% turned into such a germophobe in my adult years and this ain't happening for me on any level at 47. So, before you come in my house to listen to me yell out the window at clouds AND at kids on my lawn, take your shoes off.

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Post_Tenebras_Lux77@reddit

I take a nap after lunch in my car

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LoFi_Inspirasi@reddit

I loved it.

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cellrdoor2@reddit

We just had to sit at a table and put our heads down after saying a prayer. Stupid Catholic kindergarten, they were so mean. My preschool was just a few hours at the local Y and they didn’t have nap time. I have a quite a few memories starting in preschool. My earliest memories are still pictures from October of 81, I was born in 80. My sister being born and also getting a bad cut behind my ear and all the blood.

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Oldpuzzlehead@reddit

Only in pre-school, never in kindergarten or after.

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01kickassius10@reddit

Me too. I remember not sleeping, but staying quiet unlike the naughty boy who wouldn’t stay still.

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CatAnxiety@reddit

Yes I remember napping in preschool specifically and I remember first grade and there is no way we had nap time at that age. This would have been late 80’s though…maybe it was true for some early Xennials.

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Slydiad-Ross@reddit

Yep, me too. I am a fairly tame person, but I was apparently a wild rebel of a two year old, because I got my daycare staff to let me be the one who could quietly stay awake and play instead of napping. I have no idea why they allowed this to happen. I only remember it because I was deeply, truly outraged one day when a substitute didn’t know about my special exemption and tried to make me sleep on my blanket. My mom remembers it too, but just in a vague way where they told her me being the only kid not to nap was a good idea and she said sure.

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jugdeesh@reddit

Also only in preschool for me and in daycare after kindergarten for about half an hour

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Mail_Order_Lutefisk@reddit

Same. The county ran the daycare center M-F and they had a bunch of army surplus cots that we slept on.

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InterestingTry5190@reddit

We didn’t even have nap-time in preschool.

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shooter6684@reddit

Yeah - Kindergarten was 1971 for me in Iowa

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thatotherguy57@reddit

We did this in kindergarten. I think the only time I ever did sleep during naptime was when I got hit in the head and knocked out (concussion on the playground). I still seldom nap, it throws my already poor sleep off even further than it already is.

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sal101010@reddit

Strangely, we Brits didn't do nap time in school, maybe because back when I started in the early 80s, we started in the term we turned 5, so were a little older than some Kindergarteners. I had a half-arsed teacher, who took us for half a term, mornings only, and then I went up to what would now be called year 1. Therefore my year 1 was one year and half a term long, which is why I remembered going back to the same teacher and classroom after the long summer holiday. It took me years of my adult life to reconcile the memory with logic!

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phdpinup@reddit

Man I miss nap time. I distinctly remember it in kindergarten and rarely I’d actually nap. I’d love for mandatory nap time to be a thing as an adult.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

Kindergarten was half a day and had a half hour nap time. Yet our generation became the most intelligent.

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boggmarley@reddit

We need this as adults at work

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Snugglebunny1983@reddit

Definitely remember taking naps in Kindergarten. That should be an option for everyone, no matter what their age is. Kids and teenagers especially could use the chance to rest.

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AmericanWanderlust@reddit

OMG. Montessori School. 1989.

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Agreeable_Mouse6000@reddit

Even in the 80s, with the record and everything. I don’t think I ever actually slept a single one of those days.

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jessielou23@reddit

I was constantly in trouble for disturbing the kids around me.

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Seattle_Lucky@reddit

Preschool and maybe kindergarten. We had mats to roll out and sleep on at my Indy preschool.

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GenX_Leo@reddit

🙋🏾‍♂️

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DistributeQuickly559@reddit

I got to repair the computers software issues during naptime and when repaired I could play Oregon Trail while others watched.

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therealRustyZA@reddit

I will always be mad at myself for fighting those nap times. Now I would give so much for an afternoon nappy nap in the week...

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TMFPB@reddit

We had to lie in the dark on a carpet while relaxing music played. I never slept but I enjoyed the quiet time.

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Shaojack@reddit

We layed on the floor and used brown paper towels as a pillow =D No music, just quiet, the lights dimmed down. I always zonked out but some people would stay away and try whispering and always get in trouble.

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blooobolt@reddit

Yes, in kindergarten. It suuuuuuicked. I was sooooooo bored. I never napped. Never fell asleep. Still don't nap today in my late 40s.

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EverydayIsAGift-423@reddit

Kindergarten

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DDrewit@reddit

Preschool for sure. Not sure about Kindergarten.

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GringosTaqueria@reddit

“Have to”? No, dumb dumb, we GOT to, and I still feel like I’ve been cheated out of something as an adult that I no longer get to.

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Intelligent-Invite79@reddit

Yep! I remember we had our own mats, teach would kill the lights and sit at her desk with a little desk lamp. We were on half days at the time too lol.

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Alternative-Host-467@reddit

That's what I remember. There was a morning class, and an afternoon class. I think I was the morning class. Taking naps at school just seems weird to me now, but maybe it shouldn't.

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Intelligent-Invite79@reddit

Same here, morning class.

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AllyBeetle@reddit

Does the amber glow of that desk lamp in the darkened room have a nostalgic feeling to it?

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butterednoodlelovers@reddit

You just reminded me that kindergarten was half days for me too. And we absolutely had nap time.

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Mjmax420@reddit

Our school supply list includes’nap mats’

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stormlova@reddit

I never had to nap in kindergarten. Maybe because we only had half days? I think my mom made me nap when I got home though.

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AdvancedDay7854@reddit

Kinder- gave us these tiny blue mats to lay on. Put a sheet or cover over it. That was it. Pretty close to after lunch time. Teacher would walk by to check to make sure we were napping.

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cRaZyDaVe23@reddit

OMG, it looks like she's about to take the next shot of THE off brand kool aid... lol...

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wpotman@reddit

Yep. I hadn’t napped in two years and hated it. The teacher eventually told me I could read quietly.

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rootbeersmom@reddit

Yes and it was torture.

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firstlight777@reddit

'78 here yes I vaguely remember it.

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Charming-Insurance@reddit

I never slept during kindergarten nap time. I’m an attorney and take every nap I can (on my office couch.)

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redbeardscrazy@reddit

We had cots. But because I had an Oscar the Grouch book that I loved in which it said Oscar slept with his head off the bed on the floor to put him in a grouchy mood I tried to do that all the time. One of many reasons teachers have worried about me though the years.

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DifficultMinute@reddit

I remember having to sit at a desk in the hallway during nap time because I refused to nap, and I’d talk to the people around me. Of course, at that age, they had this cut up cardboard box they’d put around me, so I could see the teacher, but not the people next to me, to avoid talking as well.

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rajalove09@reddit

I could NEVER nap

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frecklemimus79@reddit

This is one of those “Last Class to” memories. Mine was the last class to have kindergarten naps.

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lsp2005@reddit

I had naps in class (did not nap) but both of my kids also had naps in kindergarten. They still do this. You were not the last at this.

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frecklemimus79@reddit

I didn’t mean to imply that mine was the last class to have naps period. I meant that in my school district, class of ‘97 was the last to have naps built into school schedule. Just like we were the last class in my school district to have freshman initiation.

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fidgetypenguin123@reddit

I work in education and maybe there's an exception where you live but most kinder classes have cut nap time for a long time now. And it's even full day kindergarten as well.

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tMoneyMoney@reddit

Mine don’t do this and make it until 9pm without it. Kids over 3yo don’t require a daytime nap to get through the day.

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clutzycook@reddit

Never in first grade, and we only had half-day kindergarten for most of the year. The last month or so, however, they had us go for the full day to prepare us for the next year, and on those days, we would have to put our heads down on our class tables for 15-20 minutes or so after lunch.

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ihatecatboys@reddit

Half-day kindergarten here as well, was looking to see if anyone else had this, we too had the long haul of the final month. I also remember my class didn't have AC and the only way you'd cool off was when they had you put your head down because the top of the desk was cold.

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clutzycook@reddit

I never had AC in any of the schools I attended. At least once every year or two towards the beginning of the year, we'd be dismissed early because of the heat.

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HeywoodJaBlessMe@reddit

We did at my Christian Daycare but not at public school kindergarten or 1st.

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Msdmachine@reddit

We been conditioned to nap. What the fuck

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KW5625@reddit

We did in pre-K

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fidgetypenguin123@reddit

Same here. Not sure how they expected kids to sleep in those.

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stratusmonkey@reddit

Naps in preschool, and day care during the summers. But I was rarely ever able to sleep. So, after a while, they'd let me quietly draw or play with blocks in the dark. In preschool, when I couldn't be quiet enough, they'd send me to chill in the office or the kitchen. (I was eventually diagnosed at 37!) I finally got into napping when I had my own kids!

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit

Yep. We laid down on these folding blue mats that were super thin. Not exactly comfortable.

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fidgetypenguin123@reddit

Any kind of mat sounds better than these hard plastic cot bed things we had though.

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101violations@reddit

Nap time in the gym followed by lunch, then recess. Kindergarten freakin rocked.

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moderndayathena@reddit

I'd sometimes be near the play area and try to play with whatever toys were nearby

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ZookeepergameUpset62@reddit

Kindergarten yes, 1st grade no

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Specialist_Action_85@reddit

Yea but idk that I ever napped. I do know we did bot have nearly enough art time for my tastes

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L_wanderlust@reddit

No naps but we only had half day kindergarten back then so maybe that’s why

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L_wanderlust@reddit

Omg CREEPY how they’re all laying the same like they’re dead or something. WT actual F?!

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AlienDelarge@reddit

I don't remember there being any naptime at school. I do remember hating grandma making me nap at her house. As an adult I'm still not much of a napper but if I'm running a lot I do tend to do a 10 minute or so nap in the afternoon.

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4maceface@reddit

Yes. I hated it.

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shadowlarx@reddit

In my school, we didn’t have nap time. We had half days. I was in the morning class. Of course, my mother made me take a nap after lunch when I got home. I was cool with it, though, because I would always watch *Muppet Babies* and *The Real Ghostbusters* when I woke up.

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tedsmitts@reddit

I used to nap by the bookshelf and read a book but got caught a number of times by the assistant teacher.

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ASCENDKIDS@reddit

We all pretended to be asleep and looked up skirts. You silly

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RoxyLA95@reddit

I had to do this in preschool. I hated it, my mom went to the preschool and told them she didn’t want me napping. I wish I could nap but once I’m up, I don’t go to sleep until bed time and even then it’s difficult.

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LetWaltCook@reddit

That's turn the lights down and have is put our heads down on our desks for 15 of silence when we got out of control. That's all I remember from the 90s.

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ace32183@reddit

Kindergarten in 88 and just slept with our heads down on the desks... when I was in the 4th grade I saw the kindergarteners with mats...I was jealous

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inabighat@reddit

JK. That was the shit. We got our towels out of our cubbies, laid down on the floor, and the teacher put on a Raffi record and turned the lights down for 15 minutes. I want to resurrect that practice at work

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Tosajinx@reddit

Yep but never actually slept

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UptownJunk802@reddit

We didn't have nap time in kindergarten it was only a half day.

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_ism_@reddit

not at real school but at this weird daycare and sunday school place my mom left me at when she worked and i have always been good at pretending to sleep

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BoringExperience5345@reddit

Yes, why do kids not do that now?

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Love_for_2@reddit

Yes, I still remember my little cot and my bunny sheets. Little blue bunnies with orange carrots. I loved those sheets.

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Miz_momo82@reddit

In kindergarten we had nap time and we laid on puffy mats.

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PetuniaPicklePepper@reddit

Only at daycare. We put our heads down on the desks in kinder. So boring.

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fentl00z3r@reddit

Only in pre-kinder

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shankthedog@reddit

I could never nap during nap time and had fidget and supposedly distract the other kids so they put me in the closet during nap time.

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statuesqueandshy@reddit

I remember nap time in preschool, this was probably around age 5. Kindergarten in my area was split into half days, there were morning kinds and afternoon kids. I was an afternoon kid. I also started kindergarten at age 6 because my birthday was just past the cutoff date….

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surlyse@reddit

I remember lots of kids actually did sleep in kindergarten. I think I did on occasion. We used to wake up soo early though. And played for hours before school and had already been awake from about 5am.

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perdy_mama@reddit

I work in a Montessori preschool and the kids get to nap every day. I’m jealous af.

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oyster1216@reddit

Kindergarten and I don't think I ever napped

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surlyse@reddit

I remember having naps on gymnastics mats. I say naps loosely because I was reading my way through every book I could get my hands on instead of sleeping. I still remember the pokey little puppy was my favourite. I also remember that we had a really cool play table that you could fill with water.

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HannabethHaliwelle@reddit

Yes. After lunch.

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AdComprehensive7939@reddit

Definitely remember this in preschool. I don't recall it in kindergarten but we had a three hour day. Nor 1st. But we did do swish. Everyone remembers the fluoride swish, right?

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osddelerious@reddit

No, I thought this was an urban legend. Born in 79.

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farfanseaweevil@reddit

I ate the yellow foam from my mat.

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no_clever_name_yet@reddit

I hated it since I hadn't napped during the day on purpose since I had been a toddler.

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Affectionate_Hornet7@reddit

For a whole year?

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jones_qc@reddit

Legit question, is 5 not still a toddler?

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Happy_Confection90@reddit

No, toddler is 1 to around your 3rd birthday. By 3, you aren't toddling but walking well without danger of faceplanting every day.

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jones_qc@reddit

I never thought about the meaning behind the word prior to this. Makes perfect sense.

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ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit

I’d say four is about the upper limit for toddler. There might be a formal definition

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jones_qc@reddit

Thanks for the info. I did not know there was a more formal age range definition.

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mog_knight@reddit

Nah that's a child. Specifically a school aged child.

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sesimie@reddit

I was and still Hyperactive. And we got cracked with a ruler (wood) here in the Caribbean. I used to hide a ball to roll around while I fake slept.

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BalrogRuthenburg11@reddit

I fucking hated nap time

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CritterBoiFancy@reddit

I used to get in so much trouble at nap time. I viewed the nap as optional and thought it was better suited for a social hour. I would get up from my mat, go visit other mats, chat about the day until my teacher would so rudely scold me and tell me to go back to my mat. That worked… for a minute or two. Then I’d be right back up

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JamMaster420@reddit

Kindergarten nap time. Where I learned curse words

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Impressive-Length656@reddit

I remember nap time and we had to supply our own mat. Born in 84.

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LStarfish@reddit

Pre-K. I would wait for the teacher to leave for the bathroom (after we were “asleep”) and take off into the hall and hide in the cabinets.

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Boring_Energy_4817@reddit

They did this to us in preschool. Had to bring an old towel from home to put on the hard floor and lay on. I could not sleep in public and wasn't good at quiet meditation yet, so it felt like torture.

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Maximum-Injury-8735@reddit

Yep hated it. Now I regret all that rest I missed.

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SackofBawbags@reddit

Our moms had to go to the carpet store and ask for a leftover piece of random carpet big enough to sleep on. Kids now special naptime sleeping bags and up to three stuffies to take with them. That’s a super sweet pic though. I like the idea of the teacher sitting there and personally DJing your naptjme

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ken830@reddit

Not in kindergarten or 1st grade... but in day care pre-school age. We were required to sleep on blue cots. I hated it. We must keep our eyes closed the entire time. It was torture.

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South_Tea5210@reddit

I remember we had these thin blue mats with the really thick, cold texture. Sometimes I fell asleep, other times I didn’t. I remember it being nice waking up to a quick, gentle hand rubbing my back telling me it was time to wake up. Much better than my dad just turning on my bedroom light at 6am telling me to get up.

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tbr6742@reddit

Of course. Can still smell that rubbery smell of my red and blue fold up mat.

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SoSoOhWell@reddit

Preschool yes, but kindergarten was half day, so no chance for a nap. 1st grade was balls to the wall learning, so no nap there.

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TxEagleDeathclaw81@reddit

Yes, in kindergarten we had a short nap time. I think the teacher read or played some cassette with nap time music on it.

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TylerBenson@reddit

Yes, and we used to complain about it. Our teacher would scoff and say, "One day you'll wish you got nap time every day." She was right.

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Ninjafrogg@reddit

Yes

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fubo@reddit

We had cots. I stretched to tuck my hands and feet into the holes at the corners of the cot, and imagined that I was tied down there by my wrists and ankles. Weirdly, this did not develop into any particular bondage fetish as an adult.

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grim_f@reddit

I remember we each had mats in kindergarten and I would try to stay awake but inevitably sleep. I don't think we napped in First Grade. What a travesty.

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cmh_ender@reddit

carpet squares.. go find your favorite remnant. hell yes we did this. I may have to bring that back in my office.

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kumatank@reddit

I couldn't sleep, I found it hard to sleep in public as a kid. But really easy as a teenager.

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Illustrious-Group-99@reddit

I could never do napping, even in summer camps YMCA had us do it. The only time is if I was really sick or I was really sleep deprived for some reason

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MrsSamT82@reddit

I wish I could impart wisdom onto my younger self that naps are awesome. I really took them for granted.

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exitcode137@reddit

Yes, and we had little green cots to nap on. Good times.

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OskeyBug@reddit

We had to lay on carpet samples

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ThePuduInsideYou@reddit

One time the fabric of my cot tore off the frame on on side and the staff was like…mmmm just try to deal with it. I spent that nap time trying to hold the fabric onto the bar so my body wouldn’t fall through to the floor.

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Obsidianrunner@reddit

Yep. At La Petite. We had these plastic beds.

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vintage82-@reddit

I had half day kindergarten and yes they had nap time.

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SomewhatCharmedLife@reddit

Yep, every day. We were in cots and I don’t think I ever actually napped, lol.

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three9@reddit

Yes but we had cots and it didn't look like we were all just poisoned.

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ArachnidPitiful8913@reddit

Nursery school yes. Always been a light sleeper even as a little kid I could never sleep. I would just lay there.

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Lucky_Louch@reddit

yeah I was a bit of a little shit in preschool so they let me listen to my walkman during nap time and the only tape I had and played was the soundtrack to "Stand by Me" What a banger from start to end.

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sastrugiwiz@reddit

the first time i took a yoga class I felt like i was back in kindergarten

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Ckn-bns-jns@reddit

We brought beach towels to lay on in kindergarten, I still remember the brown and blue horse unicorn towel I got stuck with. Pretty sure that towel was with us on yearly river trips until I was over 18.

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Opie045@reddit

Ha! I went to kindergarten half day. Did anybody else do that?

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Various-Side-1305@reddit

I worked in a middle school in southeast Asia, and EVERYONE naps after lunch, even the staff

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olduglysweater@reddit

Yes, we had plastic covered foam mats with our names on them.

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nvmls@reddit

I would daydream. All I had was a blanket on a hard floor, sleeping wasn't going to happen.

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Sudden_Airport_7469@reddit

We sure did. On mats that resembled the ones in the picture here. Uncomfortable and hard mats.

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gravteck@reddit

My son stopped taking naps at 3. It's been double hell all over again for the past few years.

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DumpsterFolk@reddit

Not at school but I remember nap time in pre-school because during summer they would choose a couple of kids to skip it and swim in the swimming pool (the daycare was attached to a family home). There’s no way that would fly now lol.

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teriKatty@reddit

Yea I had a blue towel I used for a nap mat in kindergarten.

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Overall-Ask-8305@reddit

Yep, we actually had to bring our own beach towels to use to sleep on. I also remember the plastic cots in preschool. First grade we just put our heads on the desk. Now, at 41 I wish we had nap time at work. 😎

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Mjmax420@reddit

Sigh, yeah..chance of head lice everyday and pretending to be asleep while the girl that was terrified of the dark cried the entire ‘nap’ session..

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abbiemood@reddit

I totally forgot we napped in kindergarten!

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Lethave@reddit

Yup. Went to Montessori the swapped to public school for first grade and had naps and assigned mats both places.

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mookpa2@reddit

Every day in grade prep

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MegaRadCoolDad@reddit

Yes. Kindergarten 1981. Part of the school supplies we had to bring was a sleeping mat. Most people had the red/blue mat.

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Spirited_Storage3956@reddit

Yes and I refused to nap. They made me lay down still. Now I wish I could nap 🫩

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Fabulous_Paper_8802@reddit

That was torture. Especially when I got to like 1st & 2nd and I was forced to lay down with younger kids at day care. I still hold grudges about this.

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VinceAmonte@reddit

We didn’t nap in kindergarten, at least not that I remember, but vaguely remember napping on cots in preschool.

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Gator_Tail@reddit

I remember being kicked out of my kindergarten class for refusing to nap. She sent me to another teachers class (my brothers 4th grade class). I remember crying all the way down the hallway alone, and having to knock on the teacher’s door knowing my brother was gonna tell my mom.

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SonofaImmigrant@reddit

Omg YES! First grade. We had a mat that was blue on one side and red on the other. If you slept red side up, you were definitely going to hell. Collectively, we need more nap times.

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meggsovereasy@reddit

Yes and we had to have a mat (that my mom made me a cover for). I remember one nap time distinctly, I never napped, and I replayed over and over getting stitches and was terrified my leg would split open. I had stitches on my knee that summer.

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Original_Mix9255@reddit

I had my own towel that I would lay out and then after nap time we would get a tiny cup of grape juice and two saltine crackers. I swear I was perpetually hungry until in my late 20s.

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krissym99@reddit

I never could actually fall asleep, but I remember they'd put on records. They had a Sesame Street one with Ladybug Picnic on it.

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SilntNfrno@reddit

We did this shit in my 9th grade theater class. I had a male teacher and at least one day every week he’d dim the lights, thrown on an Enya CD, and call it relaxation time. Pretty sure he was just hungover those days.

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JenninMiami@reddit

I’m 47 years old. I can’t remember a single thing about kindergarten. 😆

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kristosnikos@reddit

I never, not once, slept during nap time in kindergarten. Once I got to about 4th grade, I longed for nap time.

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lonely_nipple@reddit

Why are they all face down? Is this a kid thing I just forgot about? I've never been able to sleep that way.

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FI-Engineer@reddit

This brings back the very particular way those gym mats smell. Not bad, not good, just very specific.

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Secret-Ice260@reddit

And we didn’t appreciate it.

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Illustrious-Sea-2078@reddit

Yep, I went straight kindergarten, we had naps. We brought in our own cots, we would lay head, feet, head, feet lol I had a crush on a boy and laid next to him...he kicked my mouth and my first tooth came out, fun times!!

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FerretAgreeable2520@reddit

1954…naptime at “Auntie Gail’s” started with a spoonful of Father John’s tonic. Not sure what kind of dope was involved there.

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Alternative-Light514@reddit

We had those vinyl covered tri-fold mats in kindergarten. I remember this kid Chad didn’t have one and got to just put his head down and nap at his desk. My teacher wouldn’t let me when I asked, so I started tearing my mat up a little each day until it was deemed unusable and then I got to sleep at my desk, which I immediately regretted

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Aeronor@reddit

Every single day in kindergarten we had nap time. It took me forever to fall asleep every day, to the point where I was convinced I would lay awake for the whole nap time. I would stare at the number line posted around the top of the wallpaper and try to add every number up in sequence (I guess like counting sheep in factorial, though I didn't know what that was at the time). The first person to wake up when nap time was over was given a little fuzzy wand from the teacher to gently tap everyone else awake. I desperately wanted to do that, and every day I was sure it would be me, because I was convinced I was never going to fall asleep anyway. And every damn day I got tapped awake by some random kid, so obviously my factorial number counting worked on some level. Incidentally, my kindergartner brain could never seem to get above 6! or 7!.

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unbalancedcentrifuge@reddit

I didnt get a naptime until college.

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TheFoxandTheSandor@reddit

Yep and we listened to Enya

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sator-2D-rotas@reddit

I still remember the hard white cots we were supposed to use. I think they were molded plastic.

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lnc_5103@reddit

We had nap time in Kinder. I *hated* it and didn't sleep even once. I wish I knew then what I knew now. I'd have happily napped every day.

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Happy_Confection90@reddit

Not in kindergarten, possibly because it was only a half day. In preschool we had naptime, but I never slept.

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cmgww@reddit

Yeah we didn’t do this. But we also had a.m. and p.m. kindergarten back in my day… I was p.m. due to my mom’s work schedule. I remember learning how to tie my shoelaces, the ABCs, etc. I had never gone to preschool because that wasn’t a thing at least where I was from. It’s insane now what kids are expected to know entering kindergarten. All of my children knew their ABCs and then some, they could do basic math, the shoelace thing is still a sticking point but there are lots of slip on these days.

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ConcentricSD@reddit

I remember kids with badass sleep setups, and here I come with my lower middle class/poor setup having never slept at school The beginning of a long trail of times where I was out of place “underdressed” 😂

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Skate_faced@reddit

Yup. I remember there was this one handicapped girl, and from day one in kindergarten, to when she moved in grade one, every day she would nap super close to me. I could never and always had to pee. Made me so nervous. But I guess I looked like her brother and it was comforting. She always had the best snacks.

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chadork@reddit

We had a substitute in kindergarten and she asked us where we sleep during nap time. Our regular teacher made boys sleep on one side and girls on the other. Well, before any other kid could pipe up, I said "we can just sleep where we want!" - Nobody challenged it. I wanted to sleep next to my little girlfriend. This girl kept going Ooooooo while we just laid on our sides staring at each other's faces for all of nap time.

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SouthernYankee80@reddit

Yes kindergarten on the carpet square. I kinda hated it. When kindergarten was optional. I went Monday, Wednesday, and half day on Friday.

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PokesBo@reddit

I can still remember asking when naptime was on the first day of 1st grade and was shocked that there was no nap time. Lunch should be two hours paid. To eat and a nap.

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moles-on-parade@reddit

I was too literate at age 4 so they made me skip kindergarten. I missed out on naptime and playtime and snacktime to instead land with the first grade kids and take reading with the second graders. Then I didn't get my license until October of my senior year, I couldn't drink until four months before I graduated from college... I've been bitter about it ever since. But today my cohort had to go through colonoscopy prep and progressive lenses before I did. HAH FINALLY VINDICATION AT LAST

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shrimpcreole@reddit

Yes. Naps on our little floor mats while we listened to classical records. It was a wonderful time of day.

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bryanna_leigh@reddit

Yes

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AssortedGourds@reddit

I HATED this in preK. I have never been into napping so compulsory nap time was just me being forced to lie wide awake in a mat on the floor and getting scolded if I moved too much.

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No_Kaleidoscope9901@reddit

I’m a 1980 kid. We moved states my kindergarten year. First school had nap time, second school did not.

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three-sense@reddit

Only in Kindergarten. Brought our own mats too

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rayray1927@reddit

I got to skip nap in daycare and play Light Bright. I think they knew it was a losing battle to try to get me to nap. I was paid back by my oldest child who never napper after 2 yo.

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threebeansalads@reddit

Grade one on the floor on a gym mat

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anythingspossible45@reddit

I did it loved it and still try to do it to this day. Heck, I took a two hour nap today. And I work for the school board so I just go the kindergarten classrooms take one of the kids mats and nap wherever I want, I mean the kids get mad when they can’t find their mats but not my problem.

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GravyPainter@reddit

We didn't have naps in first grade. Only pre-school and it was on cota that would pull your hair out when you tried to get up

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snarkwithfae@reddit

I remember having to “nap” for a bit in preschool in the late 80s

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Icculus80@reddit

Have to? You mean “got to”.

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PrincessSarahHippo@reddit

Yes. And in afterschool we played the 'quiet game' where everyone laid down and had to remain silent. We were all military kids (dod foreign school) so when an adult said quiet, we obeyed. We were rewarded with movies. The most memorable being The Last Unicorn.

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GlowersConstrue@reddit

Bring back nap time! I also wish that once a week that nice music teacher with the cart would come round my office for 30minutes where I get to bang on wood blocks (pinnacle of my music career too!) or play with the recorder. Instead... I will settle for coffee and that period of the day where i pretend to care about all those emails I never pay attention to.

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Wild-Obligation-2093@reddit

In preschool. Each had a gym mat. I could never sleep. Hated it.

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ThirstyHank@reddit

It was good practice

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NYGiants181@reddit

Yep so random in pre k

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

I believe the only year we had naps was the 2-year old class in preschool.

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