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s/o - how long is your bedtime routine?
KathrynMD
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DD's bedtime routine seems to be dragging out longer and longer. Its been the same
PJs/Pullup
2-3 books
3 songs -
Mama Out
for a long time and took maybe 20 minutes?
For the last few months, its been dragging out longer and longer up to 50ish minutes occassionally over an hour. And, I KNOW she's tired. I'm leery of getting tough about it b/c I feel like that's going to lead to her flipping out and actually taking more time to go to sleep.
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Re: s/o - how long is your bedtime routine?
If it's a shower/bath night---it's 60 minutes. If it's not a shower/bath night---for some reason, it's still 60 minutes (LOL)...as follows:
-6:30 brush teeth, wash face, and bathroom use
-6:50 PJs
-7:00 Clean-up toys
-7:10 1 book and 2 Bible verses
-7:20 Prayer then a little small talk
-7:30 Kiss Daddy and Mommy goodnight
20-30 minutes
7:25 start bath (DS is taking his clothes off and putting them in the dirty laundry.
(I am putting a shower mat, face towel, bath gel, bath cup, clean pull-up and towel ready or at arms reach)
7:30 DS gets in bath and I start rinsing him. (Every other day I use soap and the other days I just let DS soak in the water)
7:40 Out of bath, start putting lotion on, pull-up on and DS gets his pajamas
7:45 DS gets the stool to Brush his teeth (we do this together). DS puts stool away
7:50 DS has to read a book to himself while I put stuff away and put water in humidifier and rinse shower mat.
7:55 read one book and put stickers on sticker chart
8:00 bed time
A little over one hour. 3 kids.
6:30-700 PJs, snack and last show (I get their sippies of water and clean up from dinner during this)
We all go up to the playroom.
7-720 teeth brushing. 2 play in the playroom while I brush 1's teeth and last potty.
720ish I take DS to his room, the girls go in their room and pick out their clothes. I read to him, sound machine and OK to wake clock on. Goodnight.
730- I join the girls. DD#1 reads a couple pages out of her current book (Ivy and Bean books these days) to DD#2. DD#2 picks a book for me to read. We recount the day, discuss tomorrow's plans. Sound machine and OK to wake clock on. I'm out 745ish.
I am on my own typically because DH travels a lot. I drew a picture schedule and we follow it religiously. I find whenever a transition time starts to get rowdy, I make a schedule they can look at and that helps.
When the twins were babies, I made a huge colorful poster with a list of 5 activities and then I gave her popsicle sticks with numbers on them and she would put the numbers on the chart (Velcro) in the order she wanted to do them, and then she would ceremoniously usher me through the routine. It gave her control and a sense of ownership. I used command strips and put it on her wall. This quickly nipped the games in the bud.
Ummm, we're in the "it takes too long" category. Everything after bath is at the same time every night -
7:15 bath
7:35 out of bath (I do get her out at the same time each time, if she stalled too much, it may only be a two minute bath), brush hair, new underpants and pj's, comb hair, brush teeth
7:45 DD picks out 2 books and either DH or I read to her.
7:55 DH spends 2ish minutes saying goodnight to DD.
8:00ish I lay in bed with DD for "3 minutes," but it ends up being like 10+ minutes as she says "mommy, one more huggy! One more kiss!" I'm a sucker.
I'm usually out of there by 8:15, so basically 40 minutes after bath. She does pretty much go right to sleep once I've left though.
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Thanks - I tried this last night and set it for 20 minutes to change and read books, in bed when the timer goes off. It worked pretty well.
Here's how ours goes... right or wrong, efficient or not...
7pm. Pee, brush teeth. Kiss & hug little brother.
Pj's, diaper.
3 stories if he had a "green" or good day without hitting/pushing/etc at school. Otherwise 2 or 1 depending on how naughty he was.
Short talk about the day, what he did that was good, what he did that wasn't good.
7:15 ish. Other parent comes in to rub his back. Another pep talk about what we have planned the next day, and what his prizes will be if he has a green day. If I'm the second one in, I always tell him that it's ok to not fall asleep right away but he needs to stay in his room, and be quiet.
7:30ish, usually comes out of room to bug us about something. Sometimes he has to poo. I don't know why it's usually at this time, but it is.
Finally asleep at 8.
When he comes out of his room for silly things - there's a shadow on the wall, he's thirsty again, his sock has a string... I breifly fix the problem, swiftly tuck him in, kiss & "love you, goodnight". FI has a bad habit of engaging him too much, which only reinforces that if he causes a fuss, he gets to stay up longer
Ours is long, too long.
Bath, teeth brushing, tucked in by Daddy, story from Daddy, tucked in by me, story from me and a chat/cuddle, DS trying to convince me to stay, whine, then sleep. It averages an hour.
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It's 15-30 minutes.
Shower, teeth, pj's, two books, bed.
DD2 is about 20 minutes (if a bath), 10 if not. pjs, teeth, one book, song, bed.
DD1 is a staller. It usually takes 1-1.5 hours but I put her in the bath at the same time as DD2 (6:30). She gets to play in there while I put DD2 to bed.
6:45 - bath
7:00 - teeth
7:05-7:35 books, songs, hanging out, playing. I work full time so this is the time I get to spend with her.
7:40 - lights out, snuggle
She goes to bed somewhere between then and 9, but I don't usually have to go back in.
What is an OK to wake clock? Is this something you actually got or is it something you put together? If you bought it, where? If you made it, how?