A few days ago, Jalen and I were in the van together and he started talking. "Mom, Miah is 2 years younger than me and Cameron is 1 year older than me, so why do I have the same bed time as Miah and Cameron gets to stay up a lot later than me? If I am closer to Cameron's age than Miah's age, then I should stay up later than Miah." He wasn't upset or rude, he was just sharing his thoughts out loud. So I said. "Jalen, that is a very good point. When daddy gets home tonight we will talk about it."
So hours later, Justin and I talk about it, and of course we agree that Jalen's bedtime should be changed. So the new bedtime is 8:00pm instead of 7:00pm. (I think the day light savings time thing, with it being light out so much later, got Jalen thinking about it all.)
So Now Miah still goes to bed at 7:00pm. Jalen now at 8:00pm. And Cameron's is still at 8:30pm.
So Jalen was all excited when we told him about it, and it was fun for Justin and I. He's such a good kid, and never complains, and just keeps a good attitude. So we put him to bed that night at 8:00 o'clock.
The next morning, I go in to wake him up at 6:30 am. The first thing he says to me, "Mom, about this new bedtime thing, I think on the weekends, I should go back to the earlier time, cause I don't want to get weak and exhausted. So like Saturday and Sunday I'll go to bed at the earlier time."
I just smiled and said, "Sure Jalen, whatever you think."
2 comments:
i can't beleive that you have your kids go to bed at different times to begin with. that would be a disaster here. and i also am impressed that he never whines or crys....that would be a dream world for me.. ;)
Yeah for Jalen! All of our girls have different bed times too.
Belle-7:30
Whit-7:45
Maddie-8
If We are not "on our game", and put Belle to bed a bit late and Whitney's bed time gets pushed to 7:55 or so, Maddie is furious. :)
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