Hello and welcome to another parenting blog.
I felt I needed to write this after battling with my son to stay in his bed. Tonight he had decided he would play up, so at the moment please don’t judge but it seems to be the only thing keeping in bed, is that he is watching his tablet.
I tried reading a story but he just used this to play about even more and kept changing his mind of what story he wanted.
When kids won’t go to bed you can end up having a tantrum of your own and be like “Why oh God why?” when I am very tired being up at 5am this morning so the day has been a long day, and yet my little dude decides he will play up.
You just have to do what you gotta do at the end of the day and I know tablets are not great for bed time but when it is the only thing that is making him stay put sometimes you just have to give in.
Please check a blog post I wrote a while ago about Limiting screen time for kids as giving it to him all the time can make a child unsociable and can effect their sleep.
We do have bedtime routine, where by we will have quiet time before bed and I will look after him from when he comes home from school, and do different activities whilst we watch our favourite quiz shows, and then after dinner then we will start getting him ready for bed, which is brush his teeth, go to the toilet and then read a book or watch some TV in bed.
I just checked on him and yes he is finally a sleep.
So this means I have the evening to myself which means I can work on my blogs or books, watch a bit of Youtube, listen to some music or an audiobook.
I don’t know what I would do without these pleasures and I got to say when you become a parent you see them more of a blessing than before child.
With kids come sacrifices and yes I do love my son, but at the same time some times it takes it toll, and all I want to do is hide away and say,
CAN SOMEONE TAKE OVER PLEASE
Especially when they decide that they won’t brush their teeth, have a bath or go to sleep.
You just have to grab the bull by the horns and do the best you can.
I used to play lullabies to help my son sleep which again some mothers would shake their heads at but at the end of the day if it helps them sleep I am all for it.
So do what you can and try to have a bedtime routine if you can as I find this does help when getting kids to go to bed.
Stay safe everyone and many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
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