Following on from my previous dummy post I just thought I would provide a wee update.
At the start of the previous post I said that it was a brave new world, and so it has been … I also mentioned that I feared it would continue, and so it has! The last time I wrote about the removal of the lads dummy at bedtime he was getting up and coming down with any old excuse as to why he shouldn’t be in bed … which is manageable.
Now, some two and a bit weeks later, we’ve nipped the coming downstairs bit in the bud … yes indeedy!! Now we just have to contend with him lying in bed looking at books and, as I discovered tonight, running about without actually coming down. To be honest it’s getting a bit out of hand.
Coming home today from the supermarket (it’s about a 45 minute drive), the lad nearly passed out from his exhaustion … that would have been two days in a row after he did pass out from exhaustion in the back of the car yesterday :roll: The little so-and-so just isn’t getting enough sleep, he was still up and about (squealing) about 3 hours after he went to bed last night … he’s not being naughty, per se, but the net result is that really irritating ‘naughty tired toddler syndrome’ that they seem to get when they haven’t had enough sleep.
So why is it that tired toddlers don’t just go to sleep? Why do they get hyper? Why do they develop selective deafness? Are they perhaps practicing for the day when they become teenagers? Is this maybe why teenagers stereotypically stay in bed all the time? Are they catching up on all that sleep they didn’t get as a toddler? Who knows.
The important thing is, I grudgingly suppose, is that we’ve had a nice day today in the garden doing more digging, and it could be worse … I’ve seen them on the telly (before I ripped the tv aerials out of the house obviously!)
