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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 368926" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Great point toughlovin. I am a night owl - always have been. When I was a kid, I was sent to bed, but stayed awake for HOURS reading under my covers or playing a game of Booby-Trap with my sister, being careful not to tip off our parents that we were, in fact, wide awake. I am still a night owl, which doesn't fit in well with my early morning schedule. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">I realize there are exceptions to every rule; I was referring primarily to parents who simply have no rules or boundaries in any way with their little ones, including bedtime. In fact the woman I referred to in my earlier post also let her kid eat whatever she wanted at any time, even bags of candy and then thought she made up for that by inserting nutrition shakes into her feeding tube twice a day! When I used to put my girls to bed, the rule was they can lie awake and read, but they were in for the night. Worked out okay. My easy child really liked that difficult child would pass out early; made her feel like she had a privilege difficult child didn't! lol.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 368926, member: 2211"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Great point toughlovin. I am a night owl - always have been. When I was a kid, I was sent to bed, but stayed awake for HOURS reading under my covers or playing a game of Booby-Trap with my sister, being careful not to tip off our parents that we were, in fact, wide awake. I am still a night owl, which doesn't fit in well with my early morning schedule. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]I realize there are exceptions to every rule; I was referring primarily to parents who simply have no rules or boundaries in any way with their little ones, including bedtime. In fact the woman I referred to in my earlier post also let her kid eat whatever she wanted at any time, even bags of candy and then thought she made up for that by inserting nutrition shakes into her feeding tube twice a day! When I used to put my girls to bed, the rule was they can lie awake and read, but they were in for the night. Worked out okay. My easy child really liked that difficult child would pass out early; made her feel like she had a privilege difficult child didn't! lol.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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