Bedtime for multiple kids!
How do you do bedtime with multiple kids in your home? Our current routine is not working. We have:
A three year old that loves sleep and rarely wakes up but has to be rocked to sleep/cuddle with still
A five year old that will fight sleep until he passes out from exhaustion, will take off his pyjamas, wakes up his sisters, finds every excuse to delay bedtime but once is asleep is a pretty good sleeper.
A seven year that goes to bed pretty easily but wakes up frequently from nightmares, peeing etc.
So what we usually do is go upstairs all together to start bedtime routine. On bath nights I will usually take care of the 3 year old while my husband supervises our 5 year old in our master bath shower, and 7 year old is playing in her room. Then, I will get the 3 year old to sleep (about 15 minutes) while our son fights with my husband about not wanting to sleep. Every.Single.Night. We end up having to both deal with him which takes time and our 7 year old is always going to bed later than we want because of that. She does still need some help in the shower for a few things so needs so be supervised but it’s reallt hard since we’re dealing with tantrums.
We have tried taking care of the girls first and putting them to bed before our son but like I said he will wake them up. Other than that he’s pretty much the perfect kid so I don’t understand why bedtime is such an issue 😭😭😭 Any tips to make our routine more efficient?
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