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.

Nah, you didn't say it was wondrous, joyous and something you looked forward to, Pruni, so it doesn't count

Totally with you on this and feel this way about the school run. The tedium of it by Friday is almost unbearable.

Yes...The battle to brush teeth, turn the tv off, get pjs on etc etc every day!
Ugh.

But then the joy of being childfree from 8pm onwards is worth it

I'm too exhausted of an evening to do anything but MN....
I never watch tv.It is too depressing,especially when alone.

Sometimes wonder how long DS1 (3) would actually last for if we just let him roam around in the evening! Would he ever utter those magic words " Is it bedtime now Mummy?" Nah, no chance.

Anyone ever questioned why the bloody Thomas Tank books became so popular as they have to be the most boring books ever written! Did he write them to put adults to sleep as well?

It wouldn't be so bad if there was some guarantee - or even a small chance - that they'd go to sleep at the end of it! Or at least stay in bed.. or in their bedroom...or not need 5 drinks and 12 pieces of fruit...or not fill the bed with playmobil and Christmas decorations. And yes, it's great if they love to read, but should one start to make discouraging noises as midnight approaches? And what if they just have ants in their pants?

No no Pruni it does not take that long or anything, it is just so DULL

the hideous predictability of it all

forcing your jaded body to shamble through the same old moves every evening

like some terrible sexual relationship where the man only knows one routine to get you to orgasm and my god he is not going to deviate from it, night after night after night after night...

I get through it by making it earlier and earlier - and bizarrely they still sleep until the same time in the morning. So when dp does bedtime routine they won't get to bed until about 7.45pm. Tonight I marched them up straight after tea and they were both in bed by 7pm... Bliss! I find if I even hit the lounge with them after tea I hate it - so I keep going at frantic pace until the little darlings are tucked up and out of my hair.

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I love the bedtime routine purely because I know at the end of it they will be in bed and out of my hair

I hate it when dh says 'I'll just have a cup of tea and then get started on the bath'

NOOOOO!!!!!! start the bath now! there's plenty of time for tea after bedtime when I don't have to listen to them both moaning!

have found myself sitting on a stool in the bathroom and blowing bubbles at them with a bottle of bubble stuff so I don't have to actually speak

I love that thread title

So very true though!

dottydot cross posted - I agree with you totally

bedtime routine is lovely as long as they actually stay in bed quietly and go to sleep after it. the worst bit is when they bounce back up again.

school run extremely tedious too. but enhanced by the fact, unlike bed, they can't bounce back out of school once you've dumped them there.

I quite like the school run . I get to exchange a few flustered sentences with fellow adults.

I don't get out much.

I don't mind reading too much to DS as his books are quite short and only take about 5 minutes.....DD is now into books that CHAPTERS and she insists on having 2 chapters read per night. Can't wait until she can read the god damn book herself.

now i DO like chapter books. after years of picture book crap, it's great to have a story with a bit of plot and character development.

am relieved to find there's something i like about parenthood, despite loathing so many of the major bits of it.

bedtime is a picnic compared to breakfast

I hate breakfast more than any other time of the day

I like breakfast! I'm in charge of it and then I get to go to work!!

Quietly joins the seriously weird queue. Quite like the bedtime routine as I like the fact that in a very short time indeed I will have a whole 3 or 4 hours to "myself".
I don't want to know if it changes after 18 months at this point in time. Please let it be like the conspiracy that is never telling new mothers what labour is really like as you genuinely couldn't explain it.

Having read this post I think my 3 year old DS is a freak.
I have to tell him no you (& DS2) can not go to bed until 8pm (otherwise DS2 is up too early)

he runs the bath, gets in the bath, brushes his teeth, gets into bed & reads himself a story.

He has DS2 (17 months) in training as well.

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I think my sex life isn't as exciting as Franny's, though.

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