tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1231338732382840143.post9210820288301323553..comments2024-03-18T04:15:50.676-04:00Comments on Flabbypants: The short, chubby dictator pronounced the day quite "Goob".Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10278842338463861715noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1231338732382840143.post-89353524037871820992009-01-21T22:20:00.000-05:002009-01-21T22:20:00.000-05:00It's all a crazy cycle around here. I think he's ...It's all a crazy cycle around here. I think he's dropping a nap, but unfortunately it seems to be the 2nd one instead of the 1st. He goes to sleep at 7 pm, wakes up at 6 am (with a brief rousing at 2 am. Damn you, 55 week regression!) naps at 9:30 am, and then awake until 7pm! I can't scoot the nap later - the poor kid looks like death on a biscuit after 3 1/2 hours of playtime - but because he's refusing a 2nd nap (I give him "quiet time" during it instead) he can't handle a later bedtime. I'm not sure how he's going to start sleeping past 6 am until he starts going to bed later, and he's not going to go to bed later unless his nap gets pushed later, which isn't going to happen until he starts sleeping past 6 am. It's crazy, I tells ya!Alihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10278842338463861715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1231338732382840143.post-47332925627069728162009-01-21T21:22:00.000-05:002009-01-21T21:22:00.000-05:00Aack! That information about past history childrea...Aack! That information about past history childrearing stuff is making my early childhood therapist brain explode.<BR/><BR/>So what have you tried as far as moving that wake up time to a more reasonable hour?<BR/><BR/>I don't know what we did exactly. I think a lot of it has to do with how much sleep is needed at night and what time the child goes down for the night. We also would let the kids play in the crib for a while too, and eventually they slept later. We have been on the 8:30 bed time 7:00 wake up for a looooong time now. I think that was accomplished around the time they gave up nursing. I had to wake them up earlier before that so we had time to get it in before I had to leave for work. My kids are pretty scheduled and have been since late infancy. It has been both a blessing and a curse. A blessing in that they slept/sleep well, a curse until they outgrew naps because everything we did revolved around the nap schedule unless we wanted a miserable day, and they have a hard time sleeping past 7 even if they go to bed at midnight. Which again makes for a miserable day. BUT thankfully that happens rarely, and now my kids are old enough to entertain themselves in the morning if they choose to get up at 7 and we choose not to.Missyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08053954608332662629noreply@blogger.com