WOH and sleeping issues

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Registered: 09-15-2003
WOH and sleeping issues
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Sun, 05-22-2005 - 10:34am

We were at a dinner party last night at the home of one of dh's coworkers. They have 2 boys, 6 and 4. They have a bunch of sleeping issues (kids 'scared' at night, won't fall asleep in their own bed, won't go to bed without mom or dad cuddling them, etc.) The mom blames herself because since she works all day and misses them so much she tends to cuddle with them late at night and they fall asleep in a pile on the bed all together. She said that if she SAH, they wouldn't have the same issues.


I sah. For us, bed time is a rigid, welcome respite at the end of the day. Dh has no desire to keep them up either, lol.

Meldi

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 06-08-2005 - 9:19am
I've never forced a child to take a nap in my life.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 06-08-2005 - 9:21am
I've slept in literally hundreds of hotel rooms, and I quite rarely sleep well.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 06-08-2005 - 9:22am
I know, I know, you never spend one minute too long with your ds.

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Registered: 01-29-2004
Wed, 06-08-2005 - 9:23am

Well, I don't understand your first sentence. But as to the rest, I think white noise is very different from what you were discussing: <>

If music is so loud a child can't even hear himself cry, that's no longer white noise.

As an adult, I certainly wouldn't find blasting rock music to be soothing if I were crying or trying to fall asleep. Why would an infant or child?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 06-08-2005 - 9:23am
Yes, they have been overtired.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 06-08-2005 - 9:24am
If you have absolutely no higher and better use of your time than cleaning up your filthy child every single day, go for it.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 06-08-2005 - 9:26am
I cannot respond without violating TOS, so I won't.

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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 06-08-2005 - 9:27am

Did someone miss getting their biologically appropriate 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep last night? Someone sounds a little cranky.

I guess if you get to imagine a civilized evening as one in which exclusively people over the age of 25 munch hors d'ouevres and sip chardonnay and strut their well-toned stuff in pricy formalwear with nary a crying baby in earshot, I'd guess she gets to imagine a civilized evening as one in which people actually cared enough about each other's well-being and that of their progeny to say "Hey, kid, stop running with the fork, OK?"

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 06-08-2005 - 9:28am
No.

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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 06-08-2005 - 9:29am
OK, read it wrong, your post was referring to CM's children.

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