1. Bath done and have jammies on by 7:30.
2. Have teeth brushed no later than 7:45
3. Bedtime no later than 8:30 pm (In bed, story, lights out, and nursing done.)
It's actually hard for us to get K (21 months) in bed by that early. We are night owls. N (4) is a night owl. T (5.5 months) is too it seems (though it's too early to tell for sure). Over Christmas Break, K was actually sleeping in until 10-ish many of the days so we believed that maybe she was becoming a night owl. However, I think that for her natural sleep rhythms she prefers to go to bed a little earlier and get up a little earlier than the rest of us.
The past few nights we've gotten K to bed earlier and she has gone down really easily. We need to listen to her natural sleep rhythms. We can't let her stay up late anymore. Throwing up can't be good for her and it's no fun to clean up.
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You know, it has always seemed totally unfair to me that your children--well, N--have that rhythm. I mean, we're night people too. If we could, we'd stay up until 1 and sleep in every morning, but, as you've seen, our spawn will not cooperate. We consider ourselves blessed by the current 6:50 wake-up regime, Quite civilized, by comparison. Yours was the ONLY child I knew who slept that late. I am glad to see justice finally prevailing in the world. I can't wait to hear what time she gets up.
(Of course, we do shovel them into bed early both because they become pills and so we can have our evenings free...you'll get the worst of both worlds now. But what time is N's preschool? You'll have to shoot for afternoon kindergarden...and then it's going to get ugly. And I am going to laugh and laugh, because I am a bad, bad person who hasn't had enough sleep in YEARS.
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