Comments on: You are feeling verrrrry sleeeeepy

By: Alicia P.

Alicia P. — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:31:48 +0000

Clairey! Adorable. And yes, there is something strangely . . . slutty . . . (sorry) . . . about the MLPs. . . . Though their names do rival the tree peonies’ for sheer fluff-factor.

By: zose

zose — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:22:21 +0000

lol.
willow calls us ‘zoe and garth” but we don’t mind so much. My mum always taught me that if i got lost, to yell out her first name, to save everyone confusion. Willow is 3 in 2 weeks and we have only just worked out how to get her (cheerfully) into bed before 10pm. She now goes at 7:30pm. But we have had to give up day sleep and tv and sweet food after 4pm. :/

By: Iona

Iona — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:51:02 +0000

I’m so glad to seen other parents getting on to this! We have a hypersensitive six year old boy who couldn’t keep still and kept thinking of all kinds of things to fret about. Now I read him a relaxation/meditation exercise for him every night and – voila – asleep within five minutes, no getting out of bed and a child quietly growing in self-confidence. Josh too, wants the exercise verbatim, and will correct me if I put in a different word.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:25:39 +0000

That’s one of my favourite Paul Simon songs as well.. you two have good taste!
Sounds like you’ve found just the thing to settle AJ down at bedtime.

For your sake, I hope you get the name stuff in order before the second one comes…though it did make me laugh.

By: Lily

Lily — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:52:59 +0000

Do NOT read Green Eggs and Ham as the nighttime story. They get rather too excited!

What a good idea doing the relaxation exercises. Hopefully it helps you lose any of your tension too. And I hope it’s a little faster getting her off to sleep, if you’re standing on your 32-week pregnant feet!

Well done. And I love the illustration too

By: Ada

Ada — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:46:43 +0000

What a great idea! I can’t believe this hasn’t occured to me! – not that I remember much yoga but that my coach used to try and do this for our team every night. It was such a great tactic to settling us down before a big race, which is really what it seems being a 3 year old is really like these days…

By: lekki

lekki — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:29:56 +0000

Hi Claire, what a lovely post. Is P taking turns at the bedtime routine too? When #2 arrives you can be free to tend to baby if you need to. My #1 turned into a manipulative monster when she knew I was busy with the new baby. She also called us by our first names until her little sister came on the scene, I missed it when she stopped.

By: kylie d

kylie d — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:48:58 +0000

Oh! you have reminded me of all that we went throught with Master 4..I had to remove ALL posters and pictures from his room because the characters kept “talking” to him at night. Its hard to do all this when you are tired yourself. Our Miss 2 will be going into a big bed soon and I will have to go through this all again! The breathing techniques are great for when you are out and toddler gets hysterical over something. Im always saying “Connor.. just breath…” and it stops him in his tracks! Thanks for all the tips!!

By: herhimnbryn

herhimnbryn — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:21:53 +0000

LOl:).
This took me right back to being about 4 ( am now 46), when my Pa used to read poetry to my Brothers and I to help us sleep. He developed a ’sing song’ intonation, that worked everytime!

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:08:20 +0000

Oh Claire, what a beautiful post. Thanks for giving me the idea so when Dan grows up we can do this too. Be well.