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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
How messed up are your kids’ bed/wake times?
How are your correcting their sleep patterns for school?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
How messed up is your child’s bedtime and wake time from the summer? What times have they been going to sleep and getting up? How many hours do you have to try to correct before school starts?
For school we usually go to bed around 7:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. and get up around 7:30 a.m. (We’re very lucky our school starts at a reasonable hour.) Rose always takes forever to fall asleep so she’s not usually out until around 9:30 or 10 p.m. Walsh usually falls asleep right away.
This summer we’ve aimed for like a 9:30 p.m. bedtime but due to stories, singing and general roughhousing they’re often not in bed until 10:30 p.m. (Last night, it was 11 p.m.) They’ve been sleeping in most mornings until 9 or 10. Walsh is sometimes up around 8, but Rose would sleep until noon if I let her. (She’ll be the perfect college student.)
We let them stay up late and get up late at the beach last week. (It was vacation.) So now we’ve got one week to try to correct their internal clocks. I’ve been trying to schedule things for early in the morning so we’re forced to get up. If we can get up by 8 a.m. the next few mornings I think we’ll be OK for 7:30 on the first day.
How are you trying to correct their sleep patterns? How long will it take to get them back in the school sleep rhythm?
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