[blparent] Early Riser

[Brandy W]

Sense I'm behind on email from a down computer I'm not sure what others have 
said, but there are a few things you may want to try. First is we used to 
tell my niece that she couldn't get out of bed till she saw the sun was 
awake. Later we changed it till when mommy was out of bed. She knew the 
things she could do when she was the only one awake. Other people I know 
have gated their child's room and they need to play quiet, and some have 
resorted to the TV. Good luck.

Bran



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 12:18 PM
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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