Oh FFS
We have 3 DCs. Infant dd who currently sleeps in our room and 2 DSs, 5 and 2.5. We only have 3 rooms. One for us, a box roo nursery for Dd (which she doesn't yet sleep in, but does have the cot in, and no room for any other furniture) and a single sized room with bunk beds for the boys.
Until last week DS1 went to sleep in our bed and we trfd him to his bunk bed when they were both asleep. He's relatively good at going to sleep, but is also a late sleeper, often playing and reading until 8.
DS2 goes to sleep in his bunk in his room...but buggers about for ages. On his own he'll stay up complaining and playing until 830/9. When they're together he instigated all sorts of stupidity and the pair of them get hysterical and don't sleep until late. That's why we started putting ds1 down in our room
But now we need to give Dd a routine, which means putting her down in the cot in our room at about 7ush. And that means the boys need to share their room. Last night I read the 'rabbit going to sleep' book and ds1 went quickly. Ds2 stayed up complaining for a while but didn't wake Ds1. Tonight I put them to bed at 645 and did the same quiet routine. They are still up DH is now reading the riot act after they've screamed, played, broken out of their room and fannied about in the bathroom....
So what the fuck do we do now? I'm going to reduce ds2 daytime nap to an hour. But I can't really keep ds1 up until ds2 goes to sleep. That's sometimes 830 and ds1 needs his sleep for school.
Any thoughts? We're all sleep deprived (of course, we've got infant dd) and we need to sort something practical, that gives us all a break and that doesn't require constant telling off. Please help...
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BusyCee · 02/01/2016 20:00
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