Thursday, January 3, 2013

Winning the Bed-Time Battle with Your Children

Go to Bed Now!

The youngest of my three children is now a Sophomore in college. 
I miss having small children around. 
I do not miss putting small children to bed.
My children smile when they admit I outsmarted them when they were young at bedtime.
When bedtime loomed I would ask, "Would you like to go to bed now, or in five minutes?"
They always picked "Five minutes." 

So I put the kitchen timer on five minutes, making the timer the "bad guy". 
When it rang, we scurried off to bed for tuck ins.
WINNER!

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