I haven't read the book, as a disclaimer first, and sorry if I ramble on a bit.
I do like what I have heard of UP, and DH and I have always tried to be respectful of DD. She is a happy, confident, "well behaved" (whatever that means) if a little bossy 2.5 year old.
I had a slip up with chocolate buttons as "rewards" by the way, which I quickly realised had backfired, and now we are getting on better without them.
For some reason, DD prefers to sleep on the floor. I have no real problem with that, and I am certain it is because she is ready to stop the cot/co-sleeping pattern we are currently in. A new bed is being "watched on ebay, and the plan is to make it really really lovely and hopefully she will want to sleep there.
She really, really needs her afternoon nap. She gets cranky, grumpy and irritable without it, if she hasn't gone to "bed" by about 12.30. Then bedtime is a nightmare in the evening.
Today, she wouldn't accept that it was nap time. She has had a lot of late nights recently, and with the holidays, has been sleeping mostly in the car and on journeys. Instead of us all going out as a family this afternoon, DH and I spent our whole afternoon trying to get her to go for her nap. She fell asleep at 4.25. We've not got anything achieved, but have had a very grumpy little girl and we both feel very guilty.
My question has to do with consequences. How do I explain the consequences of her actions to a 2.5 year old. She can't really understand the concept of "because you have spent the whole afternoon in a strop, we haven't been able to go and do our nice activity, now everyone is a bit sad."
I would like to know WHY she doesn't want to go to bed, but she can't really explain it.
Can you help me out at all? What suggestions do you have? A friend has said rather unhelpfully that her daughter would have been "on the naughty step" for this behaviour, but that's not a route DH and I want to take.
Thanks in advance and more info available if it helps!
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BertieBotts and any other UP parents... please can you help me?
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pookamoo · 02/05/2011 17:00
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