Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bmcg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!bmcg!bobn From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Sending kids to bed ---help needed--- Message-ID: <1883@bmcg.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 18:03:19 EDT Article-I.D.: bmcg.1883 Posted: Wed Sep 18 18:03:19 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 23-Sep-85 00:33:52 EDT Organization: Burroughs Corp. ASG, San Diego, CA. Lines: 26 I've been reading this discussion on bedtimes with concern. I have one question. How can you justify to a 2.5 year old that he has to go to bed at 8:00 or 8:15 when his bigger sister, whom he plays with all day, gets to stay up for one more hour. In his eyes he is being punished I would think. I put him down, cover him up, ask him if he had a good day, did he have fun, etc. Generally he wanders down the hall into the living room and the exercise starts all over again. Usually I end up saying something like " get up again and its spanking time" It ruins the good mood everytime and I feel bad about it. The sister, age 4.5, sleeps on the couch. She has always slept on the couch. For some reason she has a fear of her bedroom. If anybody has any advice on how to make her feel at home in her room I would listen with all three ears. After she falls asleep, about 9:30 or so, the baby wakes up. She is 9 months. I work all day and a parttime job on Sunday(from 11:30 to 9:30) So after working my fulltime job, driving to the babysitters, get the kids home, scrape up some dinner, let them play outside for a while (peer contact), wash them, and get them mindful of bedtime I dont have to much patience left. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com