(1) Sleep enough

[ailbhe]

(1.1) Reinstate Emer's bedtime
(1.1.1) Refuse Emer milk anywhere except bed after 9 pm
(1.1.2) Stay with Emer until she goes to sleep
(1.1.3) Gradually bring this time forward from 9 pm to 8 pm
(1.1.4) Change from staying with her until she's asleep to swapping parents so Rob stays with her until she's asleep
(1.1.5) Let Emer go to sleep unaccompanied by man or beast, except stuffed animals and maybe the cats
(1.2) Start getting Emer's parents to sleep before midnight
(1.2.1) Get Emer to sleep earlier so Ailbhe can pretend to live with grownups for an hour or so
(1.2.2) Burn all the interwebs so Ailbhe doesn't stay there all night instead
(1.2.3) Stop having Rob wait up for Ailbhe, too

Good plan. See us ignore it utterly!

However, I was in bed before midnight last night, and if Emer hadn't woken in the heat I might have been asleep. This morning Linnea wants to phone Unny and invite him over to play. And both children are beautifully dressed in summer dresses, and Emer has long sleeves under hers to protect her. Poor Emer :(

Comments

[mrs-warwick.livejournal.com]

That sleep plan seems so familiar, from a couple of years ago with Rhiannon... and I think we need to re-instate steps 1.2 through to 1.2.3 in this house.

Sleep

[(Anonymous)]

Here's a suggestion - why not sing to her? I suggest 'The vagabond' by Ralph Vaughan-Williams, or Bach's Cantata number 48

[nolly.livejournal.com]

For 1.2.2, what helps me is setting the computer to go to sleep at a certain time (for me, 10:45 PM, though I really should move it forward again soon...). It's not that hard to wake it back up if I'm doing somethign actually important, but it jars me out of net-inertia, and makes me stop and think, and usually is enough to moce me on to "getting ready for bed" instead of "dinking around on the computer all night".