What to do when bedtime comes…and goes
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My daughter has never been one of those kids that goes to sleep easily. Even as an infant, she fought sleep until the very end, eventually passing out from pure exhaustion. Things got better as she has gotten older; now at two, she's usually able to go to bed with little fanfare. (Finally!)I would say that 99.99 percent of the time, she goes to bed and stays in there. Just recently, we put her in bed for what we thought was the night. About an hour and a half later, I hear the telltale sign of a 2-year-old playing in her bedroom. I ignored her, figuring she would soon fall back to sleep. But, she didn't.
Finally, around 10:45pm, I go into her room to see what was going on. I found a very awake little girl sitting in bed. She had no intentions of falling asleep. The problem is that I, like many parents, consider bedtime to be "my time." A waking toddler is infringing onto the few moments I have to myself.
Eventually, she ended up in our room. I think, by the end of the night, it was somewhere between midnight and one before she fell asleep.
I've never experienced this before and wasn't sure of the protocol. What do you do when your toddler is obviously not sleepy when it is bedtime?Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments