[blparent] Early Riser

[Melissa Ann Riccobono]

Austin used to be an early riser...  Now I'm not sure how we're going to get
him to kindergarten on time in the fall because he does not like getting up
early in the morning!  I'm sure we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

	Anyway, does Sarah have any music or audio books she likes?
Favorite toys or games she likes to play?  Crayons or any other quiet things
she likes to do?  Austin really likes music and audio books so I used to
send him back to his room for a little while to listen to something.
Depending on how early it was I would tell him he either had to listen to a
whole CD, or I would tell him he had to listen at least until a certain song
or story was over before he could come in and get me.  Sometimes this
worked; sometimes it didn't, but it would be a place to start.  Sometimes I
would also tell him he could play with a certain toy, stuffed animals, look
at books, or something else quiet while he listened.  This was especially
important when I was pregnant with Oriana and just needed that extra five or
ten minutes to get myself going in the morning.  Austin sounds a lot like
Sarah because when he was awake, he was really awake and wanted me to be
just as awake and active as he was.  Again, this phase might pass--it
certainly has in our house.
Good luck!
Melissa

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:18 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] Early Riser

Hi.  For those of you with toddlers and older kids, have any of you had an
early riser?  Sarah is turning out to be quite the morning bird, and I'd
like to find a few tricks to keep her in bed a little longer.  She usually
wants to come get in bed with her dad and me, which would be fine if she'd
snuggle down and go back to sleep for a little while.  But she wants to play
and whisper and move around, so nobody gets any sleep.  I know the first
sensible thing would be to alter our schedules to fit her habits, but that's
more easily said than done, since her dad has specific hours that his shop
is open, and I've tended to work at night after she goes to sleep.  I'd
really rather not hear again that working from home and taking care of a
child isn't a good option, because good option or not, that's the way it is
for now.  Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
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