It has taken me a brief while to realize this, but Figlia has pushed her sleeptime by a good 90 minutes.
I mean, there was once upon a time when I would take her to bed at 8, and she would be asleep max by 8:30, or at most by 8:45, but it appears that she is not interested in the bed thingy till 9:30 p.m. lately. Since, her morning wake-ups are dodgy (her sleeping late or early does not affect the fact that she sings rooster around 5:30), I like her to be in bed earlier than later. (But hey, lately even though she wakes at 5:30, she is interested in closing her eyes again.)
The plus side of this is that she gets to meet Daddy in the night before she sleeps.
I can only go with the flow, and that is all that I am going to do. Last night I attempted to take her to bed at 8:45 pm. She got down from the bed, opened the door and walked straight out. Then when I tried to take her to bed half an hour later she got down again.
Go with the flow, obviously.
So I am more mentally prepared for her to be sleeping later than the norm and I guess that is the new deal.
She also has the first cold & cough of the season.
I am not a go with the flow kind of parent when it comes to bedtime. I am a military dictator who expects unquestioned obedience. Not that I get it, of course. :) However, we were very lucky in that my girl was not a wanderer, and did not try to escape her bed most nights. But, I have to be the enforcer, because the child will not sleep late. She is awake by 6:30 pretty much every morning. Her father is training her to sleep until 7 while she's out of school this summer, so she got to move her bedtime back to 8:30 pm. We've had mixed results.
ReplyDeleteBut it is definitely good that she's getting some Daddy time in the evenings. I hope Figlia is feeling better soon - colds are rough on the little ones (and on Mom too).