Putting a four year old down to bed

Is like me losing 20 kilos this year *stoned look*

Last week, Tee missed ALL her classes because Mommy was too tired to drive the Mommy Taxi. Mommy has been busy sorting out other people’s problems and it is tiring. Naturally, the knock-on effect to this is that Tee now sleeps at midnight (when she used to sleep at 8pm) and wakes at 10am or after (which is when her classes start). Not good.

Today, I forced her to stay awake and strategised her sleep time as she has a morning class tomorrow. 5pm was dinner. 530pm was brush teeth and wind down. At 6pm, we went in for stories much to her protest.

“It’s still bright outside! It’s not storytime yet! The moon is not out yet!”

We had storytime for ONE AND A HALF HOURS. There I was hoping that if I could put her out early, then I’d have the entire evening to myself but by the time she stopped moving at 745pm, I was already feeling like I’d been hit by a bus.

So much for that.

My nightmare revisited when she awoke at 9pm. It is now 11.40pm and she is not tired at all, or so she claims. This is a real nightmare. She is hungry, she is thirsty, she wants to do her maths, she wants to read, she wants to play…….anything but sleep.

Oh, my dearest princess, if only you knew how much you would LOVE sleep in the near future, you would relish every second of sleep now.

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Edited to add: At 12.33am, Tee is just about falling asleep. She just won’t sleep if Mommy doesn’t sleep too. This means that Mommy has to switch all the lights off and lay beside her sleeping. I say, BAH, to that. This is so unfair.

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One thought on “Putting a four year old down to bed

  1. welcome to the club! It’s 12.30am now, and Vanessa is still WIDE awake!!!! arrrggghhhhh…

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