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[kidalicious]

You hear about the terrible two's, but no one mentioned the attitude/drama sixes! We're dealing with an aweful lot of attitude right now - not helped by one of her best friends T., whose behaviour is always so full of attitude and downright rudeness. T's parents see it as cute or funny and a sign of a sparky personality. So - when Maddi is over

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[buckle_berry]

hello you. i have no child rearing advice but it's lovely to see you round these parts. i also got into terrible sleeping habits over christmas, so perhaps i should haunt this post and pick up some tips for resetting myself.

[kidalicious]

Hey pudding! How're you? I was staying up till 2ish and then not getting up till 11. We got lucky in that Mads will sleep for 11hrs usually - from whenever she went to bed till 11 hours later. Some kids wake up stupidly early even when they go to bed late. We had one night when she must have been really knackered and slept 13hrs.

[elzed]

Happy New Year, a little late, kid! V nice to see you hanging around these parts - and about time I got to see you in the flesh, too...

FYI - my kids go to bed between 8.30 and 9, usually; and wake up around 7... Seems to be enough for them (even if they go to bed late, they rarely wake later than 8, alas...)

[kidalicious]

It's been ages! I keep saying we should get together and get the kids together so they can entertain each other while we gasbag!

Yeah - at least we got lucky in that Mads will sleep in - if she goes to bed later she wakes up later mostly. She sleeps 11 hours from when she goes to sleep.

[slvr]

Ours are in bed at 8 and they get up at 6:15...

I'm with you on the 6 year old drama though. It's present in boys too.

Although I'm beginning to think my 8 year old is as much of a drama king as the little one.

[kidalicious]

No!! Don't say that! I was hoping they'd outgrow it - soon! Everything is such a drama right now - maybe we should just sign them all up for acting classes and be done with it.

[laura]

Mine is in her second year of acting classes now. It's a whole freakin' room of kids like that. It's kind of scary.

Arwen goes to bed before 8pm and has to get up around 7am most days. She needs more sleep but I just don't have enough hours in the day to get her to bed much earlier.

[willedit]

I try to get Rhett to be asleep by 8:30. He wakes up between 6:30 and 7, which gives him time for breakfast and a slow start before going to the bus at 7:40.

[kidalicious]

Yeah - Mads needs to be up for 8 so that she is ready to leave for school at 8.45.

[jenn1177]

hello you :)

fwiw, drama does NOT go away - so embrace it LOL!

My kids are in bed by 8 and usually asleep by 8:30. They don't have to wake up until 7:20ish as they have to leave by 8:10 for school. BUT on weekends and off track EVERYONE has a 2 hour nap/quiet time where they all (yes even the 10 year old boy) 90% of the time fall asleep and Anna on down has NAP time every day that they actually nap for 2 hours.

Have you tried getting her in bed a bit earlier so that she has time to read and stuff and could maybe be asleep between 8/8:30 rather than later? My kids really give me little to no grief when i'm just done for the day and tell them at 7 to go to their rooms and read - then when I say at 8 it's lights out they're usually quickly to sleep - I *LOVE* it :D