listening to my daughter in her sleep...
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| Sat, 08-18-2007 - 5:11pm |
wow - is it interesting! Bet you all wish you had this fail-safe way of spying on your child's innermost feelings ;-) My daughter has ALWAYS talked a lot in her sleep - usually incoherent gibberish. But of course I don't sleep in her room, so I don't hear much of it. Well, we just got back from a week of camping, all sleeping together in the same trailer. Let me preface this by saying that she's driving me CRAZY lately with her bossy, know-it-all 14 year old attitude, towards both me and her sister Kiana. So this is what we heard at various points throughout the week:
"What are you DOING??? GAWWWD!" (great tones of exasperation)
"Austin, get your shoes out of here!"
"Kiana, get out of my room!"
"You're doing it wrong again, MOTHER"
"Just waiting for Kiana to do what she was supposed to do in the first place - Kiana, NOW!!!! I'm getting a little impatient here."
"They're always telling me what to do." (that one's a little ironic, no?)
and, just to add insult to injury....
"Thank you Daddy. I love you Daddy." (syrupy sweet tones here.
I guess it would be unfair to get mad at her for being cranky and unreasonable in her dreams, though, wouldn't it? LOL. And just for fun, here are two others in a totally different vein:
"I can't go to the dance with you, Harry. I'm crushing on Neville." (she SWEARS she couldn't possibly have said that, but she HAS been re-reading the whole Harry Potter series...)
and my personal favourite:
"What? No! what? Why? ....I laugh at you - ha ha ha ha!"

S and J both talk in their sleep quite a bit - and one night during their senior year of hs, I awoke to what I thought was a really loud fight coming from the basement room they shared.
That's funny.....I wish my kids would talk in their sleep.
My older sister used to do that. One night I heard a noise in her room and went in to see what it was. There she was, standing on her bed, clawing at a picture of the Virgin Mary on the wall. When I asked her what she was doing she said, "My sock is stuck between the frame and the picture and I can't get it out." Maybe dreams have some significance, but that one surely couldn't have had any--it was totally whacky.
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