Can anyone tell me why my two-year old would switch from going to sleep at 8:30 at night on a regular basis, to staying up (crying) until 10:15 or 10:30 (or later - he's not asleep as I'm writing this) from one night to the next?! And then waking up at 5 the next morning?! Anyone? Please?! I'm about to go crazy.
As much as I think he'd enjoy the taste of my Strawberry Acai Smirnoff, I'm thinking that's probably not the answer to this problem...
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There's an awesome book that has helped us over the years with sleep. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. It goes well past Jonathan's age. You can borrow my copy if you want and just read the section on his age. Also, some kids just don't need as much sleep, like our Hannah, who is up like Jonathan, sometimes till 10ish. But the trade off is that she sleeps in... :) You could try moving his bedtime back thirty minutes every night or so till your back to 8:30. So if he's up at 10:30, try putting him down at 10. then 9:30 the next night and so on. If he's sleeping too late into the afternoon, move nap closer to 12:30 and/or wake him up 4:30. Outside time always helps with bedtime for my kiddos! Those are just somethings that worked really well for ours. Hope it gets better soon! :)
What's wrong with Strawberry Acai Smirnoff? Juuuust kidding. I miss you guys and will be praying for y'all.
Yes, I can tell you why. Because kids are weird. I've just decided that's a fact of life :). Just kidding kind of. I know I already talked to you today about this, but something Beth said made me realize that's what we do with GM now, she usually goes down for a nap between 12:30 and 1:00. I guess she's a kid who doesn't need a whole lot of sleep because she usually only naps now for an hour and fifteen minutes to an hour and a half. Sometimes if she got way off her schedule I would suffer through a day without a nap so she would be more than ready to go to bed at the regular time and then try and keep her on schedule from there. I feel you though, those times can be hard, but he will get straight eventually, whether or not you go crazy in the process is the question :), but if you need some time by yourself there's always plenty of people who will watch him! Just a phone call away :).
That's a true mystery. And an exhausting one too! One thing that I've learned from my kids is that they have to sleep to get sleep. Once the cycle starts up staying up late, very quickly they too end up waking up earlier. Once they get some really good sleep (maybe it's a great nap, a normal night's sleep.... who knows!) they usually go back on track.
Sometimes, like Ashlee said, they're just weird!!! Taking a couple days to just let him kinda set his own schedule might now be a bad idea. Might be even more exhausting though....
Hope things get better soon! And call if you need anything!
I like Beth's suggestion about taking the time back 30 minutes each night. Also, you might wake him up from his nap a little earlier or put him down right after lunch so that he's up by 2:00or 2:30. Did that make sense? I hope it gets better. Feel free to call. We can pray about it together. I love you.
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