The Struggle with Nap Time

Oh my gosh, Matthew is so frustrating...and I pick on Matthew because he is the instigator to the nightmare which I call nap time.

When Matthew and Kayla are at my parents' house while I work, they go upstairs for a nap and are asleep instantly.  No lies.  I've witnessed it myself.  They go to their separate rooms, are lifted into their play pens, lay down, and are instantly asleep.

When they have to nap at home, well, that's a completely different story.

They eagerly go upstairs, so that's the same...but they go to the same room, and climb into their beds, which are not cages.  Within seconds of me leaving the room they are jumping from one bed to the next, doing somersaults over the end rails, and playing up a storm.  So frustrating.  So frustrating that I want to separate them into separate rooms permanently, but I know that once they are separated, the chance of them ever sharing a room again is practically zero.

As I just typed that Matthew, who was jumping and talking up a storm while Kayla slept on her bed, woke Kayla up.  Sigh.  So I've taken Kayla out of her room and 'rewarded' her for sleeping by bringing her to my room with me (where I was monitoring their naptime, not napping myself!), and left a crying Matthew in his room because he hasn't slept yet so he can't come out.  And I've brought him back to his room over 100 times.  Sigh.  And now I've closed the door to his room so he can't get out.  Is that bad?  I'm at a loss for what to do with this child.  He doesn't listen, unless he wants to, and you can threaten/punish him all you want and he could care less.  At least with Kayla, if you threaten or punish her her feelings are hurt and she corrects her ways.  Matthew doesn't care.  And I know he's not ready to give up his nap yet because on the days that he doesn't nap, he falls asleep during dinner.

We've got two months (the Lord willing) to figure out this nap time issue...