The Art of Sleep
Posted by Lynn Wehner in Family on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 11:00 AM
You’re a new mom, and life seems to revolve around sleepless nights (and sometimes days) with your little one. But eventually, the baby actually sleeps, and so do you. Hooray!
Then, the child who was falling asleep in her spaghetti becomes the one who fights bedtime with a variety of stalling ploys that go way beyond the “Can I have a drink of water?” requests. And soon that same child who fights bedtime simply doesn’t have one anymore. After-school activities are followed up with piles of homework and studying. Hitting the pillow later and later at night becomes a more frequent reality.
Their changing schedules and responsibilities combined with their changing body clocks again means definite changes in the flow of household life.
On days that they can, they sleep in until they can’t sleep anymore — or until we parents tap dance on their headboards long enough for them to drag their weary bodies out of bed to face the new morning … or afternoon.
Parents of college students know what I’m talking about at this time of year. My college daughter is home for Christmas break. She had been studying for final exams like a maniac and was spent. But she’s making up for those sleepless nights by sleeping every day until, well, until I get her up.
So where are you and yours in the sleep-time continuum these days? Do you have any guidelines for bedtimes or rising times during Christmas vacation?
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