[blparent] Early Riser

[Veronica Smith]

I think Sarah is kind of young still, but when Gab was little I showed her
the clock, explained about daddy need to sleep and told her unless the clock
said, she couldn't wake us up.  So when she'd get up, she'd look at the
clock in her room and stay quietly there until the time mommy said, then
there was no stopping her.

-----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 11:18 AM
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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