Most were still asleep at 10:30. Not good. But tonight I will demonstrate why I never let them stay up late.
Every time they stay up late, they sleep late. Then the next night they don’t want to go to bed. Meanwhile, i have been up working for hours (This morning cleaning out the broom closet that everyone decided was the garbage closet) before they get up and by bedtime I’m tired and ready to go to bed.
One of the hardest things about parenting special needs kids is that if you can’t trust them in the house after you go to bed, it’s hard to come up with a fair plan for responsible kids. Right now is that everyone has to be in their rooms at a certain time, but that we don’t tell them what time to go to bed. Many of them think this is entirely unfair -- but of course, the least trustworthy scream the loudest.
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