Having a bedtime routine or a time when you typically have the children in bed isn't foreign to me. . .but the slavery you have to the clock. . .the rigidity with which your children's lives are scheduled IS foreign to me.
Heaven forbid they not be in bed PROMPTLY at 8 pm. . .Lord knows they'll turn into pumpkins if the Chutes and Ladders game runs 'over' and you don't get them to bed until 8:15 . . .(gasp) the horrors. . .
Pages
"A very large part of that is giving my son his own blissful childhood, imagine that."
I can, and I applaud you and all other parents who try to do that as well.
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
"Sometimes you just have to make allowances. Kids are people, too."
DH and I function best on routines.
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Having a bedtime routine or a time when you typically have the children in bed isn't foreign to me. . .but the slavery you have to the clock. . .the rigidity with which your children's lives are scheduled IS foreign to me.
Heaven forbid they not be in bed PROMPTLY at 8 pm. . .Lord knows they'll turn into pumpkins if the Chutes and Ladders game runs 'over' and you don't get them to bed until 8:15 . . .(gasp) the horrors. . .
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
I get 19 days off a year.
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Pages