Temporary Child Custody

It is time for bed! For parents it can have the same effect as the bell in a highschool. Luiertassen in the corner and feet in the air. The day has stopped and the fun hours are beginning! The youngsters will drop off and mom and dad will finally have a little time for each other. Or not? The actuality is that bedtime can frequently lead directly to a large amount of disappointment between parents and children. Why is this? Because the elders want the children to go to sleep and the children want to stay awake. Straightforward as that. In this post I'll try to give some pointers on the right way to deal with this crucial point in the day.

Schedule

Create a bed time schedule and stick hard to it. One of the finest things you can introduce in your child's life is routine. Do similar things at the same time day in day out and your worries will melt away like snow in summer sun rays. The second you start caving and let them do things that aren't according to plan it will backfire and the children will take advantage of that.

Take my own daughter as an example. She goes to bed each evening at 7pm. One night she wanted to have the door open because she loved to hear our noises down below. We thought: ah well. And her door was open. The result is that she now sneaks down each single night for the last 3 weeks and enters the front room without notice. We are now in the proces of having the door closed again but it is no easy attainment. The same can be said for lights that they need turned on. The biggest mistake you can make as a parent is to let your kid sleep in your bed. Do that once and you are able to say goodbye to your privacy.

Be firm and have a routine, your kid will be all the better for it!

Salmsed Turns is a dutch writer with a particular loveof baby related subjects. This is thanks to the incontrovertible fact that he has just become father of a wonderful young girl. Sick of all of the kraamcadeaus he found an outlet for that in his writing. Other subjects he likes are (in Dutch) : Zwangerschapslingerie en Luiertassen .