2.25.2013

New Bedtime Routine

A few weeks back I reached the end of my rope with bed times. The routine was stretching longer and longer with more and more complaining and whining. Obviously tired children were declaring their inability to sleep since they were most definitely "not tired." I had set the bed time as 8pm, but it seemed like most nights when 9:00 came around they were still awake and whining! I decided that it was time for a change and that I would much rather start the whole process earlier. Therefore the bedtime changed to 7pm. Much to my surprise most nights they are asleep within 10 minutes and they even start to ask to go to bed when it gets close to 7 now! I love that they are peacefully sleeping well before Adrian goes to bed since it gives some quiet time we can have with Adrian every evening!
 
Now, just to be clear this is not a perfect situation...there are still rough nights. Just not as many of them now!

1 comments:

Jennifer's Kitchen said...

Wow!! Good for you for being brilliant. That is AWESOME!! Thos things are so hard to figure out sometimes. Good for you! They're such cute sleepers, too! :)