Afternoon naps

[cheekypickle]

Another weekend and DH is having yet another afternoon nap. He did let me lie in until 9:30.

What would you guys do with DD for 4-5 hours on a Sunday afternoon??

Sorry meant to say 'stay and play' session

that's great cheeky- good to get out and about and meet some new people :)

did you mention anything to your dh last night?

No I don't really know what to say ?!

you need to explain to him most families do things together at the weekend and you'd like to start instead of sleeping it away. Ask him does he have any suggestions, and you have some ready too (swimming, picnic, play ground, feed the ducks, museums, shopping, coffee shop,whatever you think you would like to do). Then say "we'll start this weekend shall we?" and be happy about it.
If he tells you that he can't as he is too tired, then suggest he visits the GP for a check up as you don't think it sounds right that a man of his age needs that much sleep. If he simply doesn't want to, then you have a whole other set of problems.
But just be honest. You want to do nice things all together, that's totally reasonable :)

Just to put a differing point of view to the "grown men don't need weekend sleep" calls... I am mid twenties. My team at work are all mid twenties. We all work long hours, with reasonably long commutes - currently workign away from home and having a 5h+ drive home on a Friday, and back again Sunday.

We were all discussing earlier that we had all had afternoon naps on Saturday and Sunday! And had done for the last few weeks.

So I think everyone is being unreasonable to say you don;t need to nap as an adult. If you aren't getting enough sleep in the week then you need to catch up!

Thanks Whois!

Hi cheeky,

Just wanted to check back in and see id you're OK. Really pleased to hear that you did stay and play? How was it? I bet you felt so much better when you got home and I'm sure dd loved all that stimulation.

Have you got anything played for the rest of the week? Park? Picnic in the shade with a lovely blanekt for dd to crawl on or swimming?

The soft play might be an idea as they will be empty because of the weather and one with air con would be lovely......

You sound a lot more positive which is WONDERFUL!

Just a quick one, had a lovely week with DD. she went to child minders for 2 days.

Rest of time I took her to the beach, went to stay and play, the park.

DH and I took her swimming yesterday.

Needless to say I still had my 3 hour lie in and DH is currently having his afternoon nap, I don't think that will ever change. Maybe when DD gets more active and a bit older