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Musing Aloud: Can a truce be called? Can you reach out to your child with-in your difficult child?
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<blockquote data-quote="Signorina" data-source="post: 473479"><p>I hear ya Janet...</p><p></p><p>It's not so much a curfew -- it's that mom and dad won't really sleep well until everyone is home and the house is locked up tight. His arrival home disrupts our sleep and we have to work the next day. Even if we don't wake up - one of us awakens at like 2:00 and wonders if he is home and then gets up to check. Much as we would like to sleep blissfully, we can't until we know the chicks are in the roost. And as we all know, the older you get, the harder it is to fall back to sleep in the middle of the night! I certainly don't jump out of bed on a few hours sleep like I used to do! Plus his brothers have to be at school at 7:00am (or sports practice in the summer)and even if he tiptoes, they hear the water running, the drawers opening and closing etc.</p><p></p><p>"WHY CAN'T I COME HOME WHEN I WANT? I'M AN ADULT!!!!"* We heard over and over and over again. And we mostly caved in thinking the late nights would get old after a while. They didn't. This despite the fact that I had MONO (yes at 44!) this summer and was DESPERATE for as much sleep as I could get. </p><p></p><p>*I'd appreciate a good comeback to that</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Signorina, post: 473479"] I hear ya Janet... It's not so much a curfew -- it's that mom and dad won't really sleep well until everyone is home and the house is locked up tight. His arrival home disrupts our sleep and we have to work the next day. Even if we don't wake up - one of us awakens at like 2:00 and wonders if he is home and then gets up to check. Much as we would like to sleep blissfully, we can't until we know the chicks are in the roost. And as we all know, the older you get, the harder it is to fall back to sleep in the middle of the night! I certainly don't jump out of bed on a few hours sleep like I used to do! Plus his brothers have to be at school at 7:00am (or sports practice in the summer)and even if he tiptoes, they hear the water running, the drawers opening and closing etc. "WHY CAN'T I COME HOME WHEN I WANT? I'M AN ADULT!!!!"* We heard over and over and over again. And we mostly caved in thinking the late nights would get old after a while. They didn't. This despite the fact that I had MONO (yes at 44!) this summer and was DESPERATE for as much sleep as I could get. *I'd appreciate a good comeback to that [/QUOTE]
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