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A Change In Routine

Our bedtime routine is well established. Showers before dinner (Toby refuses to sit in a bath). Dinner at 6, followed by hair, teeth, a short play time, family bible time, then bed by 7.30. Well that is the theory anyway.

The 3 kids all share a bedroom, and it has never been a problem. Occasionally they have a little chat before sleeping (which I love to listen to), but they have never really kept each other awake.. until recently that is.

Hannah has obviously got to the point where she doesn’t need quite as much sleep, and a 7.30 bedtime is too early. Instead of sleeping, she begins some epic game to entertain herself and the other two, and no one gets any sleep at all. Hannah copes, but Meg and Toby are tired.

Last night, I went in at 8.00 to see Toby standing and singing “the mummies on the bus go round and round” at the top of his voice, whilst the girls were shrieking at his ‘humorous’ lyrics. Hannah was jumping around on the top bunk and coordinating all the shenanigans, whilst Meg was doing some complicated gymnastics underneath. Clearly this is not sleeping. Eventually I hauled her out of the bedroom with a book, and got her to lie down on a couch and read.

I have always maintained that my children will always go to bed at 7.30pm whilst ever they live under my roof (a girl can hope, can’t she), but it appears that Hannah didn’t get the memo. Don’t get me wrong, I love my kids, but I also love 7.40pm when they are all in bed, and I can sit down and do something uninterrupted (even if it is just marking).

It seems that our bedtime routine may have to change, and I am going to have trouble adjusting!

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  1. Carli @ Tiny Savages says

    May 12, 2012 at 11:43 am

    Oh good luck Jo, I shared a room with three sisters coming in and out…I think about the grief we must've given my parents and know I have some karma coming my way!

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  2. Deb says

    May 12, 2012 at 12:19 am

    Hmmmm, a tricky one.
    Does Hannah have a lamp that she could use to read quietly in bed?
    Could you rearrange the furniture so they don't all have line of sight to each other?
    An audio book or music playing quietly?

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  3. Nat - Muddy Farmwife says

    May 11, 2012 at 11:49 am

    My girls shared a room up until the start of school, then we pulled my eldest out so she could go to sleep uninterrupted and be rested for school. The 2 younger girls were the party animals, I have stuck to my guns with bedtime, using their sticker charts they're a bit more settled now. I just needed that early bedtime for my own sanity.
    Good Luck with the changes.

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  4. Anne @ Domesblissity says

    May 11, 2012 at 4:23 am

    Good luck with that Jo. Only up until recently, both of mine went to bed at 7:30pm, would leave their lamps have a little play or read at their bedside table and be dead asleep by 8:00pm. No such luck now. I still hear them at 9;30pm and they try every trick in the book to stall going to sleep. No more bedside lamps on anymore. That seems to be working, for now. LOL

    Anne xx

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