WOH and sleeping issues
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WOH and sleeping issues
| 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.

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It wasn't an insinuation, it was something that the WOHP in question stated openly at a dinner party. She blamed her kids poor sleeping habits on her own habit of keeping them up and snuggling them to sleep each night because she missed them so much during the day.
I didn't insinuate anything.
The thread has deviated quite a bit from the OP.
Meldi
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Wow, you hit the nail right on the head with that one, QM, at least for me. Sleeping is very regimented in this house...but when it doesn't work out (like yesterday, Aspen refused her nap). I feel incredibly stressed. Mainly because I thought that I could at least count on a nap and the other fact is that my child, without proper sleep, is a crazy girl. Always 2 seconds away from a meltdown or punching her sister. Who wants to spend the day dealing with a kid like that for 14 hours? And one day of missing a nap leads to a 2 day attitude problem.
Is it a chicken and the egg thing? Does she 'need' the sleep because we are regimented with sleep schedules or does she 'need' the sleep because she truly does?
Meldi
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