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Well they are still not finished with my basement, but we are surviving! I am reading this awesome book by Lawrence Cohen called Playful Parenting and that has helped. Basically it encouraged me to spend time playing with my daughter every day and that would help her have the desire to do quiet time. It has helped immensely. I highly recommend that book to anyone and everyone, it is an amazing parenting book and has some really neat concepts. The other thing that has helped is that I researched how to do quiet time (we decided nap time is over:) and decided that I need to build up to an hour (today we did 35 minutes) and I also started some quiet time boxes. Basically I put special activities that are only for quiet time in a box and I have one for each day of the week. I get it out about lunch time and put it on the fridge so she can see it and be excited for it. Then I put her down about 2. It has worked wonderfully every day except Wed. (I don't think he activities I put in for Wed. were that cool). I am so grateful that my mom suggested to me to research quiet time online and that I found this amazing idea!!!