Hey, that's what I'm around for. To affirm my parenting friends. Mothering is a lonely endeavor with little feedback.
Napping is such a tricky beast. We took naps entirely away from DD1 initially, but then she would be awful in the evenings, so we started having her nap once a week and then eventually phased that out and she would nap once a month (when we were in the car on a long drive to a Sacred Harp sing).
If you have a kid who is cranky when she doesn't nap and still goes to bed fine, that says to me that naps are still a good idea. What I didn't get initially was that it didn't have to be every day.
Well, DD1 has pretty consistently gotten up between 6:30 and 7 (assuming she's adjusted to East Coast time) for years (she's six now). When she was actually going to bed at 9, she was getting up after 7:30. Now that school is going, she's moving her bedtime up (hurray!) and last night she was asleep by 8:15. The time she goes to bed doesn't really seem to affect the time she wakes up. It takes a long time for that to adjust. This is a child who has always been low on the sleep needs scale (which is in contrast to her sister who obviously got her sleeping genes from me:)).
Um, did I just talk about sleep a little much there? I am pretty out of it at the moment. I'm still waiting for dinner to hit my blood;)
As for housework, I started to care about it this year, but I do it and no one notices and then I get angry. I wish I could go back to not caring.
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Re: Okay, I promise this is my last reply to your reply
Date: 2008-10-23 10:12 pm (UTC)Napping is such a tricky beast. We took naps entirely away from DD1 initially, but then she would be awful in the evenings, so we started having her nap once a week and then eventually phased that out and she would nap once a month (when we were in the car on a long drive to a Sacred Harp sing).
If you have a kid who is cranky when she doesn't nap and still goes to bed fine, that says to me that naps are still a good idea. What I didn't get initially was that it didn't have to be every day.
Well, DD1 has pretty consistently gotten up between 6:30 and 7 (assuming she's adjusted to East Coast time) for years (she's six now). When she was actually going to bed at 9, she was getting up after 7:30. Now that school is going, she's moving her bedtime up (hurray!) and last night she was asleep by 8:15. The time she goes to bed doesn't really seem to affect the time she wakes up. It takes a long time for that to adjust. This is a child who has always been low on the sleep needs scale (which is in contrast to her sister who obviously got her sleeping genes from me:)).
Um, did I just talk about sleep a little much there? I am pretty out of it at the moment. I'm still waiting for dinner to hit my blood;)
As for housework, I started to care about it this year, but I do it and no one notices and then I get angry. I wish I could go back to not caring.