Small changes: our novel bedtime routine
This weblog post on our bedtime routine was inspired past times a post I read lastly nighttime on "Mel's two Belles" called Bad Habits.
Bedtime is likely the most challenging fourth dimension of day. By the fourth dimension bedtime rolls around, your hear is wandering to the bottle of vino you lot direct keep chilling inward the refrigerator together with your trunk longs to collapse on the couch (with chocolate).
Here was our sometime bedtime routine:
Dinnertime sometime betwixt 5:30 pm together with 6:30 pm, depending on when I started cooking.
After dinner, playing outdoors alongside the boys.
7:00 pm: convey the toddlers inward for bath together with pajama time (pajama to the left, pajama to the right, jamma, jamma, jamma, jamma, P! J!) Toddlers together with then meltdown through entire pajama routine.
7:15-7:30 pm: Toddlers travel to bed early on because Momma is done listening to meltdowns.
7:45 pm: Momma hollering exterior to Husband together with preschooler that it is likely fourth dimension to mayhap mean value nearly coming inside, maybe?
8:00 pm: Husband wrestles alongside preschooler through bath time. Preschooler cries through bath fourth dimension together with drags his feet getting pajamas on. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 really frustrated-- together with rushed-- even out time.
8:20-8:40 pm: All the kids unremarkably downward for the night. Preschooler is the lastly i inward bed, though the shenanigans inward the bath together with hallway tend to wake upwards the toddlers.
8:30 pm -ish: Momma starts picking upwards the residue of the Sun room toys, tidying the kitchen together with kitchen table, complete packing Husband together with preschooler's lunches.
9:15-9:30 pm: Parents finally larn to the couch to stare blankly at the television, exhausted past times the wrestling gibe bedtime had become.
Obviously, nosotros needed a change.
So hither is our NEW bedtime routine:
Dinnertime, which I already direct keep planned out a calendar week inward advance together with the ingredients bought via online grocery shopping, is started simply about 4:30 pm. We unremarkably consume betwixt 5:00-5:30 pm.
Tidy upwards the kitchen together with Sun room BEFORE going outside. The toddlers tin play exterior until, at the latest, 6:45 pm. Bring the toddlers inward for pajama time! (Oh, yes, pajama time!) I larn them undressed inward the same surface area every night; that mode they know what is expected of them ("Okay, it is fourth dimension to larn develop for bed!"). I together with then direct keep them behave their dingy clothes to the hamper. On bath nights, they travel to the bathroom. On nights nosotros aren't bathing, nosotros caput to their room for pajamas.
Between 7:00 together with 7:15 pm, the preschooler together with my hubby come upwards inside. (If Husband is non home, D comes within alongside us when I convey the toddlers in. He either helps alongside his brothers or listens to a majority on record land I larn them develop for bed.) We read stories all together alongside all iii boys inward "the reading chair;" when I read to all the kids at the same time, nosotros travail to notice tardily painting books that appeal to both historic catamenia groups. I together with then accept the toddlers to their sleeping accommodation land the preschooler brushes his teeth together with puts on his jams. I read the toddlers some toddler stories (Goodnight, Moon, Jamberry, Sandra Boynton) together with lay them to bed.
After the toddlers travel to bed, simply about 7:30-7:45 pm, I complete tidying upwards our living spaces. Sometimes I direct keep our preschooler assistance alongside this, similar direct keep him wipe downward the kitchen table. This is when I complete packing the lunches. (I rootage packing the lunches when I build clean upwards the dinner mess. I unremarkably pack leftovers for my hubby together with thus one-half of his dejeuner is already packed.) Then I come upwards out to the reading chair together with read the preschooler some preschool stories (our recent library cheque outs, Roald Dahl, or whatsoever books he picks out).
After stories alongside our four-year old, it is off to bed for him! He gets all his electrical flow favorite animals together with tucks them all in. Then nosotros tell prayers together with tuck him in. Lights out past times 8:00 pm! (Okay, sometimes nosotros larn caught upwards reading together with he doesn't travel to bed until 8:15 pm.)
Once all the kids are inward bed betwixt 8:00 together with 8:15 pm, there is nix else to do. My hubby together with I are costless to lookout adult man a movie! Or a DVR'd show! Or cheque our email! I don't direct keep a whole room of toys to build clean upwards or a kitchen total of dingy dishes... nope. Nothing. Ah, it is wonderful.
I larn done the same total of things alongside our sometime together with novel schedule. We consciously rearranged our nightly to-do list to arrive travel better. The kids aren't overtired during bath fourth dimension together with pajama time. By the fourth dimension nosotros read stories, they are develop to listen. I tin relax reading our preschooler stories because I am non thinking nearly the millions of things I postulate to larn done after he goes to bed. We simply made a serial of small-scale adjustments to the schedule. As an unexpected bonus, my hubby together with I are going to bed earlier. I was staying upwards until two or 3 inward the morn (or later) reading together with and then waking upwards at viii am alongside the kids; this worked until our days got busier together with I had less downtime inward the afternoon. Now I direct keep fourth dimension to create the things I desire to create much before inward the eve together with don't experience the postulate to rest upwards thus belatedly to larn them done. I am likewise much to a greater extent than relaxed when the kids travel to bed; I felt similar I was injure upwards thus tightly before because it was thus stressful together with at that spot was thus much crying.
As a note, the higher upwards schedules oft say "I create this," instead of my hubby doing it. My hubby is truly the i who unremarkably does all of this. We travail to proceed our schedule simplified plenty thus i someone tin create it. That mode when my hubby is home, I tin travel accept aid of other things while he takes aid of the kids or he tin accept the preschooler land I accept the toddlers. Keeping the schedule simplified likewise allows me the liberty to leave of absence inward the evening, leaving my hubby to create bedtime, or vice versa. We've fifty-fifty had-- gasp!-- a baby-sitter. :)
Bedtime is likely the most challenging fourth dimension of day. By the fourth dimension bedtime rolls around, your hear is wandering to the bottle of vino you lot direct keep chilling inward the refrigerator together with your trunk longs to collapse on the couch (with chocolate).
Here was our sometime bedtime routine:
Dinnertime sometime betwixt 5:30 pm together with 6:30 pm, depending on when I started cooking.
After dinner, playing outdoors alongside the boys.
7:00 pm: convey the toddlers inward for bath together with pajama time (pajama to the left, pajama to the right, jamma, jamma, jamma, jamma, P! J!) Toddlers together with then meltdown through entire pajama routine.
7:15-7:30 pm: Toddlers travel to bed early on because Momma is done listening to meltdowns.
7:45 pm: Momma hollering exterior to Husband together with preschooler that it is likely fourth dimension to mayhap mean value nearly coming inside, maybe?
8:00 pm: Husband wrestles alongside preschooler through bath time. Preschooler cries through bath fourth dimension together with drags his feet getting pajamas on. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 really frustrated-- together with rushed-- even out time.
8:20-8:40 pm: All the kids unremarkably downward for the night. Preschooler is the lastly i inward bed, though the shenanigans inward the bath together with hallway tend to wake upwards the toddlers.
8:30 pm -ish: Momma starts picking upwards the residue of the Sun room toys, tidying the kitchen together with kitchen table, complete packing Husband together with preschooler's lunches.
9:15-9:30 pm: Parents finally larn to the couch to stare blankly at the television, exhausted past times the wrestling gibe bedtime had become.
Obviously, nosotros needed a change.
So hither is our NEW bedtime routine:
Dinnertime, which I already direct keep planned out a calendar week inward advance together with the ingredients bought via online grocery shopping, is started simply about 4:30 pm. We unremarkably consume betwixt 5:00-5:30 pm.
Tidy upwards the kitchen together with Sun room BEFORE going outside. The toddlers tin play exterior until, at the latest, 6:45 pm. Bring the toddlers inward for pajama time! (Oh, yes, pajama time!) I larn them undressed inward the same surface area every night; that mode they know what is expected of them ("Okay, it is fourth dimension to larn develop for bed!"). I together with then direct keep them behave their dingy clothes to the hamper. On bath nights, they travel to the bathroom. On nights nosotros aren't bathing, nosotros caput to their room for pajamas.
Between 7:00 together with 7:15 pm, the preschooler together with my hubby come upwards inside. (If Husband is non home, D comes within alongside us when I convey the toddlers in. He either helps alongside his brothers or listens to a majority on record land I larn them develop for bed.) We read stories all together alongside all iii boys inward "the reading chair;" when I read to all the kids at the same time, nosotros travail to notice tardily painting books that appeal to both historic catamenia groups. I together with then accept the toddlers to their sleeping accommodation land the preschooler brushes his teeth together with puts on his jams. I read the toddlers some toddler stories (Goodnight, Moon, Jamberry, Sandra Boynton) together with lay them to bed.
After the toddlers travel to bed, simply about 7:30-7:45 pm, I complete tidying upwards our living spaces. Sometimes I direct keep our preschooler assistance alongside this, similar direct keep him wipe downward the kitchen table. This is when I complete packing the lunches. (I rootage packing the lunches when I build clean upwards the dinner mess. I unremarkably pack leftovers for my hubby together with thus one-half of his dejeuner is already packed.) Then I come upwards out to the reading chair together with read the preschooler some preschool stories (our recent library cheque outs, Roald Dahl, or whatsoever books he picks out).
After stories alongside our four-year old, it is off to bed for him! He gets all his electrical flow favorite animals together with tucks them all in. Then nosotros tell prayers together with tuck him in. Lights out past times 8:00 pm! (Okay, sometimes nosotros larn caught upwards reading together with he doesn't travel to bed until 8:15 pm.)
Once all the kids are inward bed betwixt 8:00 together with 8:15 pm, there is nix else to do. My hubby together with I are costless to lookout adult man a movie! Or a DVR'd show! Or cheque our email! I don't direct keep a whole room of toys to build clean upwards or a kitchen total of dingy dishes... nope. Nothing. Ah, it is wonderful.
I larn done the same total of things alongside our sometime together with novel schedule. We consciously rearranged our nightly to-do list to arrive travel better. The kids aren't overtired during bath fourth dimension together with pajama time. By the fourth dimension nosotros read stories, they are develop to listen. I tin relax reading our preschooler stories because I am non thinking nearly the millions of things I postulate to larn done after he goes to bed. We simply made a serial of small-scale adjustments to the schedule. As an unexpected bonus, my hubby together with I are going to bed earlier. I was staying upwards until two or 3 inward the morn (or later) reading together with and then waking upwards at viii am alongside the kids; this worked until our days got busier together with I had less downtime inward the afternoon. Now I direct keep fourth dimension to create the things I desire to create much before inward the eve together with don't experience the postulate to rest upwards thus belatedly to larn them done. I am likewise much to a greater extent than relaxed when the kids travel to bed; I felt similar I was injure upwards thus tightly before because it was thus stressful together with at that spot was thus much crying.
As a note, the higher upwards schedules oft say "I create this," instead of my hubby doing it. My hubby is truly the i who unremarkably does all of this. We travail to proceed our schedule simplified plenty thus i someone tin create it. That mode when my hubby is home, I tin travel accept aid of other things while he takes aid of the kids or he tin accept the preschooler land I accept the toddlers. Keeping the schedule simplified likewise allows me the liberty to leave of absence inward the evening, leaving my hubby to create bedtime, or vice versa. We've fifty-fifty had-- gasp!-- a baby-sitter. :)
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