I really try very hard to not complain too much about the joys and obstacles of motherhood, but feel I have to just rant a little. Since the end of the school year it has been an up and down battle in our household with D, mostly later in the day around bedtime. It is frustrating and tiresome and I am ready for it to end. We have been a little too lazy with the bedtime routine and I think that has killed us. She gets overtired and then it is all downhill from there. We have never struggled with this time of day, I think because I have always been very scheduled with bedtime, catch them before they are tired and get them in bed! She has always been a great sleeper, so even putting her to bed at 7, she is still never up till around 7 the next morning. The tantrums seem to happen mostly on N's night to put her to bed and I am not sure why. I don't want to blame him, but I think he doesn't come off overly enthusiastic about the bedtime routine and she feeds off of that. We chatted last night and agreed that we needed to push up bedtime and both stick to it.
I also think she misses the school schedule, so I created an hourly schedule for her this morning that we will start tomorrow. She was excited to get it off the printer and read it. Hopefully this will help with boredom and also with bedtime.
If anyone else has suggestions please post them!
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How is the schedule working with D?
ReplyDeleteShe is a bit obsessed with checking it, so apparently she was missing some structure.
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