Best excuses for not going to bed

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DT2 4.5 has been driving me NUTS tonight jumping in and out of bed. Finally gave her a proper telling off and she'll lose a star off her chart if any more shenanigans.

"But Mummy," with a great deal of offended dignity, "I am a wedding planner and I need to finish sorting out a wedding for tomorrow morning!"

Totally ruined my bad cop act by sniggering heartily.... what are your DC best excuses for not going to bed?

"I had to come down Mummy, because I couldn't remember which t-shirt Daddy was wearing." DD aged 2yo.

I need to know what economics means

daughter aged 3 - and this was over 40 years ago.

I'm a grown up and I use any excuse possible to avoid going to bed...

I need a drink of water.
I need another cuddle.
The curtains look scary.
The clock is ticking too loud.
Teddy has fallen out of bed.
My bum hurts.

My DD is always too tired to go to sleep.

The economics one is great!

DD2 told me last night she was planning to start sleeping in the day like a bat and therefore didn't need to sleep at night at all 🙄

@NannyGythaOgg I was hoping you'd add that she went on to work in an economics-related field! 😄

I've been bitten by a vampire so am now allergic to sunlight.
The future of the planet depends on me finishing watching this movie and finding out the cure.
I've been infected by a zombie virus so if you try and make me go to bed I will bite you and you will have it too.
They didn't give me any school dinner today so I am really hungry and need to stay up and eat a takeaway. Also you need to order me a takeaway.
If I fall asleep the house might burn down and I won't know, and I'm too young to die (we checked the smoke alarms together) yes but a smoke alarm could always just fail for some reason, you never know.
I need to stay up to find out if Santa is real.
I need to stay up because I'm scared the tooth fairy will come and I'm scared of the tooth fairy.
I can't go to bed because you'll be lonely if you have nobody to watch TV with.
I need to have bath tonight because the boiler might break and I can't go to school stinky. Do you want me to be bullied for being the smelly kid?
I need to stay up because we are doing space as a topic at school and my homework is to find out if aliens are real or not.
I need to stay up because otherwise I won't get you your moneys worth from my telescope.
If I sleep now I'll lose my game on Roblox.
This movie is getting removed from Netflix at midnight tonight and so I will never get to find out the ending if you don't let me stay up and watch it.
I have to revise for the test tomorrow and the internet speed is too slow to do it during peak times. If you want me to sleep at night then you need to upgrade our package so I can study when it's more convenient for you.

I look forward to my nightly excuses greatly. Beats the days of toddler parenting when it was just drink, toilet, snack or scared. Much prefer the elaborate creative excuses I get now!

No - HR - still asking lots of pointless questions 🤣🤣

“My arm’s fallen off”. DS, aged 3.

His arm had not fallen off.

Tonight's offering
My eyelids are gone so I can't close my eyes.
He's now asleep with closed eyes

"Yes mummy I will brush my teeth, I just need to count to 1,000 first. One, two, three ..."

And, on the way upstairs to bed: " I'm too tired to walk. I can only hop." 😁

Ah these are cute. Mine had:

A scary feeling
Malties in his legs (yes, the breakfast cereal)
A poo. Why does he go to bed and then get up 5 mins later for a poo. Still happens now to be fair and he's nearly a teen.

I'm sure there are more!

How can I be superman without black hair?

A very urgent question from 3 year old DS, necessitating à trip back downstairs.