Safe to say we're all dreading that University/first flat moment. Saying goodbye for their first day at school is bad enough, but that will be awful. We all dread that. It will kill me seeing my daughter walk into school for the first time tho. They're so free, and fun, and alive before they go to school... school I think just seems to start pissing on their chips. That's a whole new story tho.
Been some chat about sleep politics with kids. I don't have an answer to it but my tuppence: Wife breast fed both children... so they, from early on, just slept in our bed. At times, it was an issue for me, but I'd sleep on a sofa or in the 'spare' (soon to be 'their) room. It did mean that I didn't have to do a milk run at 2/4am tho. There was no way I was going to do that I think so I chose well perhaps. Transferring our first into his own bed was slow and gradual but not too painful. Sure, he'd come into ours at times, but I loved having him crawl back in. Sometimes it woke me so much that I'd have to move out to somewhere else, but it was never really an issue. Same with our 2nd child. If it was up to me, we'd all sleep together in a 4 metre wide bed. I love hearing the tiny patter of feet as my daughter crawls in now - she just walks in, finds a spec in the middle, and zonks out. My 7 year old son rarely does now, but my near 4 year old does it nearly every night.
Was funny tonight... we haven't seen them for a while... they're in their beds... I'm reading... kiss them goodnight... all good... lights out, all normal... then I get a call for a glass of water and I go up and they are both in our bed with mum... 5 mins later, they're dead out. I'll carry them thru later, and our youngest will no doubt crawl back at some point.
I don't know if it's the 'correct' way to do it... but if they want to come in and snuggle up in ours, then they know they can. It also means you don't have to go far for a pillow fight - and is there a better way to wake up than a child of yours jumping up and down on your head at 5:30am? Exactly.
