Sentences with phrase «on early bedtimes»

For more benefits and some practical how - to advice, see our article on early bedtimes for baby.

Mindell and Weissbluth agree on early bedtimes and establishing a peaceful transition time before bed (for reading, cuddling, singing, bathing, prayer and similar activities).

Not exactly the ideal life for two kids with PTSD, who thrive on early bedtimes and routine.

I insisted on an early bedtime which was followed by a bath and milk - breast until 18 months and now organic goat's milk.

In fact, the recommendation to deal with 4 month sleep regression is to concentrate on earlier bedtime for your baby.

Not exact matches

My little Kit has an early bedtime and needs his dinner at around 5:30 or 6 — just as my husband gets home from work and about 20 minutes before Timothy needs to leave for whatever it is he has on that day.

Bedtime is funny because on the one hand I know I should be going to bed earlier but on the other I'm never tired in the evening and am extremely productive during these hours.

Limit evening activities on school - nights and begin bedtime routines a bit earlier than usual to allow for setbacks.

It gets dinner on the table earlier (and therefore keeps bedtime reasonable), and gives us all more stress - free time together as a family in the evenings.

By the time you're en route, baby may or may not doze off, but depending on your destination, you're pretty much guaranteed a healthy nap after lunch AND an early bedtime.

I would say I was relatively flexible with her, because I was desperate to find what was best for her but still kept it pretty scheduled (for example: experimenting with changing wake times or bedtimes, tweaking the bedtime routine, adding / removing dream feeds and cluster feeds, etc.) She started sleeping longer stretches pretty early and at 3 months I could count on getting a 6 - 7 hour stretch, but every once in a while she'd go 8 - 10 hours without a feeding.

Consistently making swaddling part of your bedtime and / or naptime ritual early on will help create the association that once the swaddle is on, it's time for sleep.

And the idea of letting kids catch up on sleep on weekends doesn't work because some kids wake up early anyway (as many bleary - eyed parents will attest), or they sleep in really late and then are even less likely to be sleepy at an early bedtime during the school week.

When it comes to sleep, the biggest challenge for school - age children and their parents is the demands on a child's time that will make early bedtime routines difficult to manage, especially in today's 24 - 7 wired and fast - paced world.

Before bedtime on Christmas Eve, we leave a mince pie, carrot and drink out for Santa and have an early night, ready for the excitement of the next day.

Despite our best efforts to keep him on a schedule of an early bedtime and naps every 3 hours, our days were inconsistent.

To shift the timing of your toddler's nap, first look at your log and see if it's reasonable to expect them to go to sleep earlier or later based on their current bedtime and wake time.

For tips on getting him to get to sleep earlier at night, see this article on bedtime problems in children.

Even at nearly 2 years old, it's not a perfect situation — she still sometimes cries at bedtime, she still sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night, and she still sometimes wakes up too early and won't go back to sleep unless I lie down with her on a mattress in her room.

For preschoolers who on average need 12 hours of sleep in a 24 - hour period, you can increase that to 12 hours and 15 minutes or 12 hours and 30 minutes by moving your bedtime 15 minutes earlier.

Try bringing their bedtime a bit earlier, and make sure they have a 30 - minute wind - down period (not in a room where the TV is on) before bedtime.

In fact, a regular bedtime, especially an early one, was found to have the most significant positive developmental effects on children 4 years of age.

Although bedtimes change depending on age and family routines, many have strong feelings about how early or late toddlers and preschoolers should actually be going to bed.

Yet many parents don't agree on what time is the «right» time to make bedtime, and these differing opinions across households often leave moms or dads feeling insecure that their kiddos are going to bed too early or late.

On one hand, I'm excited to have the children learning and back to a regular routine and earlier bedtimes.

If you didn't make a gradual adjustment to your child's bedtime, you might try to wake him up an hour earlier on the day before daylight saving time begins.

Given the fact that time together for so many households starts at around 6 or 7 o'clock or even later in the evening on a school night, it can be tough to set an early bedtime.

Establishing a bedtime routine for your baby early on has many, many advantages.

On Monday, March 4, 2013, start waking your child 15 minutes earlier, and moving their entire schedule (meals, naps, and bedtime) 15 minutes earlier than normal.

When it comes to toddlers, bedtime battles, early risers and hourly visits through the night can be tough on any parent!

Fact: This is not true; try to ensure your baby adapts to a routine at bedtime as early on as possible (from about 3 - 4 months old) so that they learn the difference between night and day and sleep well at night; getting into a routine in the evening will make a huge difference to you and the relationship between you and your partner.

Fact: This can be the case if your child has nap late in the afternoon but it should not affect your child if they have nap in the morning or early on in the afternoon; keeping your child awake can be counter-productive because they will probably play up at bedtime because they are over-tired.

Wake your child up 30 minutes early on the day of the time change, so as not to rob them of too much nightsleep, but also not to let them sleep in too much resulting in a way - too - late bedtime.

If you're really keen on keeping your child on the same schedule, you can wake them 1 hour early on the day of the time change so as not to see any lasting effects from the time shift (however if your child has a very strong internal clock, you may find them still not able to fall asleep until their «usual» bedtime).

This has been going on for a few days... a few days ago we also changed her bedtime to an earlier time as I could tell evening naps weren't working for her as she'd be extra fussy and even went into a «night sleep» when I put her in her wrap at around 6 / 7ish.

But you can begin on a bedtime routine as early as six weeks.

This can be tough for families that eat on the later side (or have toddlers with super early bedtimes), but it does help.

Moving his bedtime up by one hour earlier seemed to help immensely, as did putting a light - up / musical toy that he could turn on himself (without standing or sitting up, like something attached to the crib slats).

If this reading time takes on a life of its own (too long for bedtime or too much excitement), you may want to move it to earlier in the evening in the living room and then shorten the bedtime routine.

On these days, it's all a mom can do to trudge along, putting one exhausted foot in front of the other and praying bedtime comes early.

Often bedtime on school nights is earlier.

On those days, they will be cranky little pains - in - the - butt who will need an earlier bedtime to make up for it, or at least to give you a break from their (self - inflicted) misery.

I even TRIED an insanely, ridiculously early bedtime for a week or two, but 1) it put a huge burden on the rest of family, since we couldn't go anywhere or do anything, and 2) eventually the 5/6 pm «bedtime» turned into more of a super-late nap, and Ike would wake up at 11 pm and then be COMPLETELY AWAKE FOR HOURS.

Otherwise, he might be so rested around 4 that you can just keep your activities nice and mellow, earlier bedtime routime, and early bedtime, then possibly a dream feed later on.

This is because all of the stolen moments that hubby and I count on to get us through the day (nap time, computer time while boys are at school and baby plays quietly in baby - proofed area, early bedtime for kids, hot bath and wine after kids go to bed) never happen because there is a flurry of fun activities that keep us from sticking to our schedule.

You may wish to get a headstart on this transition by waking your child an hour early on Saturday morning and proceeding with naps and bedtime on hour earlier than usual (remember, the clocks haven't been changed yet).

See this post for ideas on that: Time Change Strategies: http://babywisemom.blogspot.com/2008/02/time-change-strategies.html But don't be affraid to try to have an earlier bedtime.

Once she has been fed at 7 pm (or earlier depending on how things go) we follow her bedtime routine and she goes down for the night.

The monitoring comes more from knowing what's going on, making sure that there's nothing he can pull into bed or onto himself, as well as trying to have a stable, and possibly earlier bedtime.

• On days when a nap occurs early in the day, move bedtime earlier by 30 minutes to an hour to minimize the length of time between nap and bedtime.