Bedtime

digiscrapmomma

digiscrapmomma

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** Warning, I am venting! lol **
Does anyone else have issues with bedtime? My sons flat out don't like it. Bedtime is 7:30, lights out is 8:15. It's not too early, and yet still at like 10 I hear them in there playing. And on the nights my husband is home it's worse. My 9 year old has to be up at 5:50 to be ready to catch the bus at 6:30 and it's so hard to get him moving since he doesn't get enough sleep....
Please tell me I am not alone in this fight. Just knowing there are others who struggle will make me feel so much better!
 
I don't but my kids don't share a room, so that helps. They also don't go to bed until 9, but they don't catch the bus until 8:30 (7 next year for my oldest).
I have alarms set on my phone and they know what they mean.
8: shower and lunch making (daughter showers in the morning)
8:40: brush teeth
9: bed.
We've been doing this schedule for 7 years, so while my son will whine, they're off to bed and asleep soon.
 
I don't so much anymore. I think by the time they go to bed, they are too exhausted. My daughter probably is the one who I have to tell to sleep a few more times than the boys. She just wants to chat all day and night! lol..

Mommy, did I tell you....
Mommy, what's your favorite....
Mommy, oh no! I forgot.....

Me: Seriously, you pick now- right before sleeping- to say and do....

This is our nightly routine, geesh...
 
I had a hard time when my kids were young. None of them wanted to sleep...ever!
We tried all sorts of things, but one of the biggest was that electronics were not allowed in their rooms. Also, I ended up starting to take toys out whenever they weren't sleeping...it ended up that there was nothing for them to play with in the bedroom!
My boys are teens now, I don't worry about it so much. Because we homeschool, we stay up later than we really should, but they do get to sleep in more.
It's very frustrating, I know, but hang in there!
 
emscraps said:
I don't so much anymore. I think by the time they go to bed, they are too exhausted. My daughter probably is the one who I have to tell to sleep a few more times than the boys. She just wants to chat all day and night! lol..

Mommy, did I tell you....
Mommy, what's your favorite....
Mommy, oh no! I forgot.....

Me: Seriously, you pick now- right before sleeping- to say and do....

This is our nightly routine, geesh...
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That's so funny, Em! My daughter (who is 21 now) STILL does that! She'll ask me to come in her room about something specific and if I don't watch it, it will be 1am and I'm still there! :)
 
So glad I am not alone. :) I'm just at that point where I am tired of fighting with them both each night to go to bed and then my oldest each morning to get out of bed. You'd think he would have learned after 4 years of school, but nope.
Tammy, I sooo wish I could home school them because then it wouldn't matter and with their Daddy being a trucker it would give us more flexibility.... Sadly I know that I have 0 discipline in order to do so ;)
 
My daughter has issues at bedtime. She was our foster daughter and we adopted her. She was 5 months old when she was placed with us. Her bio mom would leave her alone all night long (while she went out or to a bar) with a bottle and a soother. She was a night owl (most likely from being scared and alone!)

Anyway, she has always been a poor sleeper, and now she's 5 and she just doesn't need much sleep. She is in bed by 8 but she never falls asleep (unless she's absolutely exhausted) before 10 or 11 pm. She wears me out!!! She never gets cranky in the morning and always gets up with a smile so that's not an issue. The issue for us is that my husband gets up at 4 to go to work and we don't like to be asleep until she is! It's been tough, but hopefully when she's a bit older, it will change.
 
Wow! That is super early to have to get up for the bus :( my kids (3rd grade and kindergarten) don't have to be up till 8am, but usually wake on their own by 7:30.

Our bedtime routine tine starts at 7pm with story time, then teeth brushing/pajamas, & in bed by 8pm. Light are out, but the hall light is left on for them to read silently of they wish to do so. Sometimes they are awake talking past 9pm, but lately they are asleep by 8:30pm

We have a no electronic rule for school days, they are only allowed Friday, Saturday and the occasional Sunday and that seems to help wear them out faster by physical play rather than sitting docile for the evening on a tablet or TV.

good luck!
 
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