I need a bit of guidance. DSD is 10 and lovely. She has developed an unhealthy attachment to her mobile phone. She text's her mum and rings her a lot while she is with us. Last night it was the night the kids stay with us and my DSD rang her mum 3 times between 4pm and 7 pm. Then we tell her to ring her mum at bed time to say goodnight and let her brother say goodnight too. We have a no mobiles after bedtime rule which they know about. I took my SS's mobile downstairs as normal and asked DSD where hers was ( I knew she had it as she was just talking on it) she said it must be downstairs. It wasn't i think she had it under her pillow. Anyway. 11.30 pm and DSD comes into my room saying she cant sleep and was upset. I tucked her into bed again and cuddled her and she was snoring within 5 minutes. I stayed to make sure she was asleep and she slept all through the night. Her mobile was on the floor and it went off. I picked it up and it was a message from her mum. slate me if you like but I thought why would she text at this time of night so I read the message. It was telling DSD to think about coming home and that she will come and pick her up if she wants or pick her up first thing in the morning. I checked the message history and they had been texting about not being able to sleep for nearly 2 hours! My point is that DSD obviously needed soothing to sleep as she dropped off as soon as I was with her. My other point is that if she had come in to me and her dad that 2 hours early instead of texting that we could have soothed her to sleep then instead of her getting upset. My other point is that texting her mum only makes her more upset because she is not there to help her sleep, only me and her dad so she needs to tell one of us. BTW we both checked on them before and she must have been pretending to sleep. It stresses me out!! anyone got any helpful hints on how to remove the mobile without creating WW3?
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MJHASLEFTTHEBUILDING ·
23/08/2011 12:59
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