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- From: kati@glnserv.gbdata.com (Lady Dragon)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Help getting two year old to sleep
- Message-ID: <DH6muB1w164w@glnserv.gbdata.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 06:49:36 CST
- References: <1992Nov21.140214.24192@ulysses.att.com>
- Organization: Vermi-net, Houston, Tx. 77098
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- smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
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- > In article <1992Nov20.215953.2532973@locus.com>, judy@locus.com (Judy Leedom
- > > Well, you can lead a child to bed, but you can't make him sleep. At least,
- > > that has been my experience with BOTH children. So we don't make them slee
- > > We do the bedtime routine and then go to bed. If they'd prefer playing in
- > > their rooms or watching TV or reading, they are free to do so. The point f
- > > us is that we are through being parents. We are now "off work" so to speak
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- Guess what? You don't get to be "off work" when you are a parent. It's a 24-hour
- a day deal. You can indeed take a break from it after the children are safely
- in bed asleep, but you are still "on call". Now that you've worked out a bedtime
- routine, you need to follow it up with seeing that they do stay in bed and lay
- quietly, if they can't get to sleep right away. Letting them get up again ruins
- the whole idea of having a bedtime routine. You've allowed it to be simply an
- interruption in their playing; nothing more.
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- >
- > Of course, to simply accept that is to assume that there are no
- > consequences to a child staying up till all hours. We find that
- > getting Daniel out of bed in the morning is a battle, and that he tends
- > to be really cranky and clingy all morning if he stayed up too late the
- > night before. Besides, he doesn't just stay in his room and let us
- > relax; every ten minutes, he wants to talk to us about something.
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