tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191889587277656073.post6969644798775655328..comments2023-06-18T11:00:45.064-04:00Comments on Sweet Melissa's Musings: Doin' the successful sleep happy dance!Sweet Melissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820328695275285145noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191889587277656073.post-11169959540885097942007-09-19T15:59:00.000-04:002007-09-19T15:59:00.000-04:00Well, it isn't an option, but since he has ALWAYS ...Well, it isn't an option, but since he has ALWAYS (and I mean from the time he was like less than a year old) given me signals he wants to go to sleep, I watch for his signals of being sleepy and until two weeks ago, at the same time almost every day (and when he had two naps a day... the same times then)I would ask him if he wanted to go to sleep and he would start jumping up and down saying, "oh..." which he signal for YES!!! Now... when I see it's nap time and he hasn't given me the "signals" I tell him it's nap time...<BR/><BR/>So, it's not that it a choice just that he has always been WILLING to nap when it was time to nap, so why not ask him if I know the answer? lately for sleep at night he doesn't want to go to bed, but I tell him about ten minutes before that it's about time and then ten minutes later I tell him it's time for night-night and by then he's 'accepted' it that he needed to go to sleep.<BR/><BR/>Now, my OLDER child was completely opposite. he DID NOT want to sleep ever, so it was the 10 minutes, 5 minutes, 1 minute, OK, time to go to bed and then the "real" fight would begin. henry, the younger one almost always GOES to sleep easily... just doesn't like to sleep for long.<BR/><BR/>And...today.. he did nap for two hours at his normal time, so tonight will probably be a shorter night.Sweet Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05820328695275285145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191889587277656073.post-41981598766944785142007-09-19T10:09:00.000-04:002007-09-19T10:09:00.000-04:00That is great that he is sleeping better.I have ne...That is great that he is sleeping better.<BR/>I have never asked a child if they were ready for a nap.<BR/>I never believed it was an option. I always told my boys, the kids I babysat for and my grandson that after lunch was nap time. No asking, no discussing. It just was and they knew it and never said anything but took a nap. :)<BR/>Glad he is sleeping better. You probably are too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com