Does anyone else get so bloody bored of the bedtime routine, that they would rather let their child stay up, getting more and more tired, rather than move their arse off the sofa to start the whole mind-numbing ritual going, one more tedious time?

[FrannyandZooey]

Goddddddddd it's dull.

We're still locked in a stand off. Kids are naked but showing no signs of moving towards the bathroom. I keep saying "it's really time for a bath now..." then clicking on another thread.

The Inferiorettes have escaped bed, and I really really really should go and coax them gently yet firmly (ie bellow pathetically) back, shouldn't I?

But I'm working, you see.

that would make a great name for a band motherinferior and the inferiorettes

YESSSS! Am just about to get off my arse from PC and run a bath for DD. She should have been in bed an hour ago!

yes, took dss up to bed yesterday at 7, three hours later they were still awake, by this time we all came back downstairs. Dh arrives and as soon as he takes them up they zonk out in one minute (think they were waiting for him).

And this is despite the fact that ds1 (4) woke at 6am yesterday and had no afternoon nap .

Me! But not because I'm bored with it, dh does it most nights. DD has fallen asleep with her head on the coffee table because I've got engrossed in something on here and haven't bothered to put her to bed.

Ha! I win! Dh cracked first - and has placed our offspring in the (now lukewarm) bath.

Hoorah! I am the Winner, I am the Greatest, I have the Willpower, I am the Bestest! [I hope someone knows that Eddie Murphy stand up routine and can sing that properly in the style of "You have no ice cream...")

We have never felt boredom about the bedtime routine! But maybe it's easier putting one to bed?
I must say that some days I can't wait to put ds to bed lol! Also he gets so grumpy if he doesn't get to sleep on time.
Can't stand it when I see young kids playing in the street in the evening - I think to myself "you should be in bed by now!"

lol moo.
My DH has buggered off playing squash tonight, followed by 'rehydration therapy'

i.e. in the pub til 9.30!

Well it's just so dull doing the same things every night

I just feel I cannot be arsed to drag myself through it all. I feel so tired at the end of the day and it all seems so terribly menial and drudgelike.

I am a selfish old cow, and lazy to boot. He is in bed now but not asleep!

Yes. Oh yes. Oh yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.

I have always wondered about the major MN posting surge between 7pm and 8.30pm but never guessed that everyone else was doing what I do - ignoring the shrieks, gurgles and cursing coming from the bathroom...
We are working on that idea bundle but it backfired hideously the other day when I was "in bed now" on the sofa and I caught dd trying to "change my pooey nappy"

Oh Christ yes!!
And I am always on my own too.
Aaargh!!

We have lots of complicated rituals too (crossing days off picture calendar,planning ahead,school reading book,free choice,handwriting practice) and much as i love them,fear it is all a house of cards in danger of imminent collapse.)

Yes. It's when I reach for wine

Then once they're all in bed, there's still the devastation of dinner, baths, crap everywhere to clear up and tomorrows sandwiches to make.. ZZZZzzzz.

Oh yes I forgot about the complicated rituals. Also there's the up and down stairs a few more times.

I make them clean up as they gop along,so that when i come down,everything is sorted.

Would have a nervous breakdown otherwise.

I try that moondog and they do help, but that in itself can become one of the complicated rituals or should that be 'stalling tactic'?

I find myself yawning through the story sometimes. As soon as I close the bedroom door behind me though, I feel alive and full of energy. Weird.

It is true TG.
Have lost count of the times I just grab the toothbrush from dd and get the bloody teeth done in a blur of foam and screaming.

Lol That's how we do teeth too!

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It is dullsville, bedtime. Ds spent a good 45 minutes having a tantrum too this evening when I just wanted them GONE AND IN BED, aagh. Usually dh baths dd while ds gets his pyjamas on and then dh puts dd to bed and I give ds a cuddle. he doesn't have to have a bath every night and he's lost interest in stories so it's all quite quick and painless really, they're usually both quiet by 8pm.

Dd, 2.5yo:
bath,
bottle
bed

Ds, 8.5yo:
pyjamas himself
wee and teeth
cuddle

MD, you're going to win quote of the week again, I'm sure...

"Have lost count of the times I just grab the toothbrush from dd and get the bloody teeth done in a blur of foam and screaming."

Franny, I think if you don't get bored sometimes putting children to bed, there's probably something wrong with your own wiring

Now having not read the whole thread, just the top and bottom, you'll all have said you adore bedtime rituals and I will be drummed off MN

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