What can a mom do when her hyper active 3 yr old refuses to sleep at night even when he is really sleepy?
There are different types of toddlers...some take a sound nap for 2 hours in the afternoon and still sleep for 10 hours at night (lucky moms!!!), some refuse to take a nap even for an hour in the afternoon but sleep early at night (well, moms are not that lucky, but they can have a break at night), some kids (like mine) refuse to take a nap in the afternoon and sleep at midnight after all the cajoling and threatening. They still have the energy to wake up early in the morning and wake their moms.
My son does take a nap in the afternoon only if I sleep with him. If he finds out that I am not sleeping with him, he wakes up too. There is no such thing as a sound nap for him. The same goes at night too. I try to put him early to bed (by early, I mean 10 PM) and come down for a bit of a couple time with my hubby when I hear a voice from the bedroom. I have tried all kinds of tricks with him, cajoled him, threatened him, shouted at him but nothing works. He sleeps only when he is 'satisfied' that there is nothing else left for him to do, and to top it all, he wakes me up in the morning saying "amma, get up, we got lots of work to do today".
I am really longing for an hour long bubble bath, watch some movies, just stretch my legs and read a book. When will my simple needs be met:-(
