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- From: elise@ticipa.pac.sc.ti.com (Elise Wade)
- Subject: Re: "Private Time" with the Kids
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.224658.394@ticipa.pac.sc.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments
- References: <85551@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Dec19.223538.14230@umiami.ir.miami.edu> <2719@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:46:58 GMT
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- In article <2719@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM> sg@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Susanne Gilliam) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec19.223538.14230@umiami.ir.miami.edu> ahelmers@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes:
- >>In article <85551@ut-emx.uucp>, wiebe@ut-emx.uucp (Anne Hill Wiebe) writes:
- >>
- >>> (BTW: where are these
- >>> children who actually sleep 12 hours out of 24, that the baby
- >>> books talk about??? Mine won't nap at daycare and sleeps about
- >>> 8-9 hours at home.)
- >>
- >>Well, two of them are living at my house...my son will be 4 next month. He
- [...]
- >>
- >>The "secret"? Probably partly constitutional but both my children are
- >>*EXTREMELY* active. I always suspect that if you run a kid enough you will get
- >>a lot better sleep. This is my own personal theory, but I know that mine are
- >>constantly on the move, not very into television, and extremely physical.
- >>They're just tuckered out :). The other thing is we keep a pretty firm
- >>schedule. But then again, that just follows from them being tired. If they
- >>weren't it wouldn't make much sense to force 'em into bed.
- >>
- >>Ann Helmers
- >
- > Well, two of them live at my house too, and I have to say that I can't
- >concur with Ann's conclusion that activity leads to good sleep habits.
- >My daughter (2 years, 9 months) is a very high energy kid, and sleeps
- >about 7:30-7, and takes roughly a 2 hour nap in the afternoons. On the
- >other hand, my son (5 years, 11 months) is, and has always been, physically
- >very inactive; all the action is either inside his head, or in fine
- >motor control type activities. He enjoys running around and whooping it
- >up with other kids or adults, but he doesn't *require* it the way she
- >does, and left on his own, he will always gravitate towards quiet activities.
- >He sleeps 8-7, and takes a 2 hour nap at home. He finally gave up
- >weekday naps when he went to kindergarten this fall, but he always naps
- >well and deeply at home.
- > So this shoots a hole in the "activity counts" theory. Now maybe he is
- >
- [...]
- > Susanne Gilliam
- >
- >
-
- Naw, I don't think activity is a determining factor. Both of my kida
- are *very* active! The 4.5 year old needs about 8 hours of sleep, which
- -- if we are lucky -- she'll do 9:30pm to 6:30am. (She's a budding night
- owl just like her daddy.) She's also pretty much given up naps. She
- can function relatively well on as little as 6 hours sleep if things
- are really exciting. (I wish I could do as well.) The 7 month old
- sleeps just like the books say babies should -- zonked about 9pm to 7am
- and a two hour nap in the morning and evening. I don't think the
- 4.5 year old *ever* slept that much.
-
- They are just different people.
-
- Elise.
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