Have noticed with ds (nearly 2) that lately, he seems tired later in the evening, and to be taking less sleep overall in each 24-hour period (crap sleep due to house move aside ).
Do you find with your little ones that they tend to go to bed later and sleep a bit less in the summer months, and sleep more (hibernate ) in the winter?
They try, but I'm very jealous of my few childfree/not working evenings so I make them go anyway {grin}
When they were very young I found black out curtains a godsend during the summer. It really helps when you're trying to get them to sleep whilst the sun's still up.
Black out curtains didn't help here - they can hear other kids still playing out quite late.
Mine go to bed at the same time, but are more likely to get up very early in the summer. They are 5&6 and understand now that sometimes you go to bed before it gets dark, but if they wake and it's light, they get up.
He goes to bed at the same time and then we spend 1-2 hours bellowing at him to get back into bed. Last night he tried to move the furniture from the spare room into his room (he's 2.75), finally fell asleep at about 10 and then got up at 2.30 to tell me that it was dark and we should all be asleep. At 4 he wanted to see whether I was asleep (....) and then at 6 this morning he wanted to sing Wiggly Woo for me.
Ds's bedroom in new house has two whopper windows. We bought Homebase blackout blinds and fitted them before moving day, but they let in a ton of light around the edges - i.e. ds still thinks it's daytime: "It's daytime now, Mum. I've woken up [having not yet been asleep]!"
For anyone in the same boat, and contemplating buying blackout blinds, check out www.easyblinds.co.uk. I found it last night after posting; apparently not a sliver of light will get through. Desperate times and all - am very tempted at the moment!
Bedtime is cast in stone in this house ... dd understands that it's lighter later in the summer and has never complained that it's not night-time. She does try to get up earlier in the mornings sometimes but gets sent straight back to bed!
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....just kidding
