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<blockquote data-quote="Sister's Keeper" data-source="post: 687897" data-attributes="member: 20051"><p>I'm glad it worked. Who knows, maybe it played into the self esteem of the 10 year old and he felt special.</p><p></p><p>I have a lot of little kids (5 under the age of 10 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite12" alt="o_O" title="Er... what? o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" />) so I hear a lot of "It's not fayerrrrr!" (say that in your best whine voice lol) I have given up trying to make everything equal and I just tell them, "life isn't fair." I think it is good for kids to understand that they aren't always going to get or have everything everyone else has. I try to keep things, basically, fair, in not showing favoritism, but there are times when keeping everything equal is just impossible or not feasible. </p><p></p><p>You know that there is always a chance you were having trouble at bedtime because SS10 just wasn't tired enough at his regular bedtime. </p><p></p><p>My daughter, now 8, wasn't a napper as a preschooler. She stopped napping at 2 and that was it. If she wasn't tired, she wasn't laying down and going to sleep. It drove the preschool nuts because all the other kids were asleep and she would lay on her cot and try to talk to her neighbors. However, she is out like a light by 8:30 every night.</p><p></p><p>My oldest (9) he is the kid that is up at 7am every morning regardless of how late he went to bed or how tired he was. We went to Disney and we had the kids out super late the night before, after midnight. & am rolls around, everyone else is snoring away, and he is sitting in front of the TV watching cartoons. </p><p></p><p>We learned the electronics thing the hard way. Our oldest had a TV in his room. I would get up in the middle of the night with the youngest and would hear the TV and realized he was sitting up half the night watching TV. He is also ADHD, and it just stimulated his brain so much he would never fall asleep watching it.</p><p></p><p>The other thing I was thinking, in terms of physical activity, and this is biased because I love tennis, is tennis. LOL. It is something that he and dad could do, just the 2 of them, where they wouldn't, necessarily need concrete rules, they could just hit the ball around, but would burn of steam and wouldn't require being able to participate in a group dynamic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sister's Keeper, post: 687897, member: 20051"] I'm glad it worked. Who knows, maybe it played into the self esteem of the 10 year old and he felt special. I have a lot of little kids (5 under the age of 10 o_O) so I hear a lot of "It's not fayerrrrr!" (say that in your best whine voice lol) I have given up trying to make everything equal and I just tell them, "life isn't fair." I think it is good for kids to understand that they aren't always going to get or have everything everyone else has. I try to keep things, basically, fair, in not showing favoritism, but there are times when keeping everything equal is just impossible or not feasible. You know that there is always a chance you were having trouble at bedtime because SS10 just wasn't tired enough at his regular bedtime. My daughter, now 8, wasn't a napper as a preschooler. She stopped napping at 2 and that was it. If she wasn't tired, she wasn't laying down and going to sleep. It drove the preschool nuts because all the other kids were asleep and she would lay on her cot and try to talk to her neighbors. However, she is out like a light by 8:30 every night. My oldest (9) he is the kid that is up at 7am every morning regardless of how late he went to bed or how tired he was. We went to Disney and we had the kids out super late the night before, after midnight. & am rolls around, everyone else is snoring away, and he is sitting in front of the TV watching cartoons. We learned the electronics thing the hard way. Our oldest had a TV in his room. I would get up in the middle of the night with the youngest and would hear the TV and realized he was sitting up half the night watching TV. He is also ADHD, and it just stimulated his brain so much he would never fall asleep watching it. The other thing I was thinking, in terms of physical activity, and this is biased because I love tennis, is tennis. LOL. It is something that he and dad could do, just the 2 of them, where they wouldn't, necessarily need concrete rules, they could just hit the ball around, but would burn of steam and wouldn't require being able to participate in a group dynamic. [/QUOTE]
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