Can’t get her kids to sleep, she needs help!
[ Received an interesting and distressingly common complaint from a reader about being unable to get her young children to sleep at a rational hour and, with her permission, I am posting our back-and-forth here. If you have any additional comments or ideas, please do leave them and help this poor couple out with their perpetually awake little ones! –DT ]
Hi Dave, You have info in your attachment parenting blog about sleep patterns and getting the kids to bed at a reasonable hour. I just read one post about your little guy refusing to go to bed at 10 PM. We are lucky to get our kids down before midnight. It’s often times 1, 2 AM.
That’s brutal. What time do they get up? Do you have pretty quiet dinners and evenings, or are you all pretty wired and moving around? We try, as best we can, to have less than full brightness lights, talk quietly and only allow “mellow†play so we can get things to slooowwww down. Recently we’ve been trying to have 7pm bedtimes and it’s working pretty well, the kids are almost always asleep by 7.45 or so. Thankfully, we haven’t had a 10pm night in long time. The 2yo’s different because she’s either fully ON or OFF, no slowing down with her. But that’s just her age…