I claim a victory in the Battle of the Bedtime. I confess I cheated, but I still won. At 7 pm I took all four of my kids on a walk. I was the only one walking, everyone else had wheeled vehicles, but they were muscle powered an thus still tiring. Only Patches rolled in effortless splendor in his stroller. It was a long walk. They were all glad to get back home and put the bikes away. When I put Gleek to bed I checked back in 10 minutes and she was out. This is a major improvement over last night where she was awake for 90 minutes after I put her to bed. Link went to sleep quickly. Patches struggled a little bit. He really wanted to go sleep in my bed, but Howard had already crashed for the night. Besides Patches needs to be sleeping in his own bed, that’s why we have it. This only leaves Kiki awake, she’s next on my list.
Then I need to go to bed too. Because I can’t win tomorrow night’s Battle of the Bedtime unless I make all the kids get up at a reasonable hour.
Good for you!
I have less trouble now. I only have to get one of them to bed… Liz is old enough to make her own choices as to when to go to bed and she understands the correlation between sleeping enough and school grades… and what those grades mean to her future. I think she stayed up all night last night but since she slept the lion’s share of yesterday, that’s not really a problem. I don’t intervene unless her grades suffer.
Good for you!
I have less trouble now. I only have to get one of them to bed… Liz is old enough to make her own choices as to when to go to bed and she understands the correlation between sleeping enough and school grades… and what those grades mean to her future. I think she stayed up all night last night but since she slept the lion’s share of yesterday, that’s not really a problem. I don’t intervene unless her grades suffer.
We started to have a family walk every evening. Around the block once is 1/2 mile and twice around is 1 mile. We all need the excercise, it’s nice to hold hands with Ross while we walk and if we are all tired, we all have the same goal- going to bed. (except for the ploy of “I’m so tired I can’t walk or get myself dressed for bed”… sheesh)
Okay, so it petered out when school started and my tiredness spiked….
we need to get going again and just do it.
We started to have a family walk every evening. Around the block once is 1/2 mile and twice around is 1 mile. We all need the excercise, it’s nice to hold hands with Ross while we walk and if we are all tired, we all have the same goal- going to bed. (except for the ploy of “I’m so tired I can’t walk or get myself dressed for bed”… sheesh)
Okay, so it petered out when school started and my tiredness spiked….
we need to get going again and just do it.