Re: kids and candy help please
Pam Hartley
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own body rhythms do that.
Candy at midnight might cause a child to stay up until 1 a.m. (might, not
will) or some similar short period of energy-boost, but then the effects
fade fast and the caffeine and carbo crash hits.
What causes "excess" energy is being 1 and 4 :) and since it's winter they
might also not have an opportunity for as much fresh air, outside-exercise
as they need. Cabin fever is not just for adults.
One thing I did at that age was put us all in a small room (usually their
bedroom) and lay down and let them play around me while I caught brief
little (like 1 to 20 minutes) naps for an hour or two. I was there, I was
mostly-aware, I would wake to any sudden noise or request. It helped a lot.
You could also find someone who could come to your house and play with them
sometimes (an older homeschooling child, another sleep-deprived mother you
could trade with by going to her house) while you have a nap.
You could nap as soon as your husband gets home while he plays with them for
an hour or so, and then he gets to go to bed at a decent hour (all this
assuming he works outside the house). On the weekends, he can stay up and
you can go to bed at a decent hour.
And it does get better as they get older. My daughters are usually up later
than my husband and I, but at 8 and 5 they're perfectly capable of handling
their own bedtime.
Pam
>From: [email protected]Candy in the morning doesn't cause a child to stay up until midnight -- his
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 2894
>Date: Sat, Jan 18, 2003, 10:15 PM
>
> So, on top of the short amount of sleep we are all
> getting (they aren't really old enough for me to go and take a nap
> and leave them to thier own devices and going to bed before them is
> not an option, at this point) they are so full of energy they ware me
> out just watching them and being that i can only watch before i am
> drafted into all of there adventures, and we have lots of them, I am
> finding my self so tired that i'm rethinking this whole candy thing.
> I don't want to restict them but I'm at the point that I can't think
> real clear, I'm so tired. So, those of you that have done this, and
> lived to tell the tale, it will get better wont it?
own body rhythms do that.
Candy at midnight might cause a child to stay up until 1 a.m. (might, not
will) or some similar short period of energy-boost, but then the effects
fade fast and the caffeine and carbo crash hits.
What causes "excess" energy is being 1 and 4 :) and since it's winter they
might also not have an opportunity for as much fresh air, outside-exercise
as they need. Cabin fever is not just for adults.
One thing I did at that age was put us all in a small room (usually their
bedroom) and lay down and let them play around me while I caught brief
little (like 1 to 20 minutes) naps for an hour or two. I was there, I was
mostly-aware, I would wake to any sudden noise or request. It helped a lot.
You could also find someone who could come to your house and play with them
sometimes (an older homeschooling child, another sleep-deprived mother you
could trade with by going to her house) while you have a nap.
You could nap as soon as your husband gets home while he plays with them for
an hour or so, and then he gets to go to bed at a decent hour (all this
assuming he works outside the house). On the weekends, he can stay up and
you can go to bed at a decent hour.
And it does get better as they get older. My daughters are usually up later
than my husband and I, but at 8 and 5 they're perfectly capable of handling
their own bedtime.
Pam
rebecca delong
Hi Pam, yah I'm comming to the conculsion that it's because they are 1 and 4. we live in San Diego so they get to play out side a lot, not as much as they would like, we live in a sm. apartment complex on a fairly busy street so unless Jason or I is able to be out, at least keeping an eye them it's not real safe for them. I'll try your nap idea, it may just do the trick. Jason has been home with us for 14 months, do to a pretty serious work injury and he trys to take the kids out so that I can catch a nap but he can only be out for a short period of time before the pain is really overwhelming. He also just started night school so our schedual has changed a bunch.
So far the only other hsers I have met in my area are the 'school at home' type or the 'we unschool everyting but math and english' so they are usually only free on the weekends.
But we will be moving in the next few months and i'm hoping for a yard and tons of unschoolers in the neighborhood :-)
Rebecca
Pam Hartley <pamhartley@...> wrote:
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own body rhythms do that.
Candy at midnight might cause a child to stay up until 1 a.m. (might, not
will) or some similar short period of energy-boost, but then the effects
fade fast and the caffeine and carbo crash hits.
What causes "excess" energy is being 1 and 4 :) and since it's winter they
might also not have an opportunity for as much fresh air, outside-exercise
as they need. Cabin fever is not just for adults.
One thing I did at that age was put us all in a small room (usually their
bedroom) and lay down and let them play around me while I caught brief
little (like 1 to 20 minutes) naps for an hour or two. I was there, I was
mostly-aware, I would wake to any sudden noise or request. It helped a lot.
You could also find someone who could come to your house and play with them
sometimes (an older homeschooling child, another sleep-deprived mother you
could trade with by going to her house) while you have a nap.
You could nap as soon as your husband gets home while he plays with them for
an hour or so, and then he gets to go to bed at a decent hour (all this
assuming he works outside the house). On the weekends, he can stay up and
you can go to bed at a decent hour.
And it does get better as they get older. My daughters are usually up later
than my husband and I, but at 8 and 5 they're perfectly capable of handling
their own bedtime.
Pam
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So far the only other hsers I have met in my area are the 'school at home' type or the 'we unschool everyting but math and english' so they are usually only free on the weekends.
But we will be moving in the next few months and i'm hoping for a yard and tons of unschoolers in the neighborhood :-)
Rebecca
Pam Hartley <pamhartley@...> wrote:
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>From: [email protected]Candy in the morning doesn't cause a child to stay up until midnight -- his
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 2894
>Date: Sat, Jan 18, 2003, 10:15 PM
>
> So, on top of the short amount of sleep we are all
> getting (they aren't really old enough for me to go and take a nap
> and leave them to thier own devices and going to bed before them is
> not an option, at this point) they are so full of energy they ware me
> out just watching them and being that i can only watch before i am
> drafted into all of there adventures, and we have lots of them, I am
> finding my self so tired that i'm rethinking this whole candy thing.
> I don't want to restict them but I'm at the point that I can't think
> real clear, I'm so tired. So, those of you that have done this, and
> lived to tell the tale, it will get better wont it?
own body rhythms do that.
Candy at midnight might cause a child to stay up until 1 a.m. (might, not
will) or some similar short period of energy-boost, but then the effects
fade fast and the caffeine and carbo crash hits.
What causes "excess" energy is being 1 and 4 :) and since it's winter they
might also not have an opportunity for as much fresh air, outside-exercise
as they need. Cabin fever is not just for adults.
One thing I did at that age was put us all in a small room (usually their
bedroom) and lay down and let them play around me while I caught brief
little (like 1 to 20 minutes) naps for an hour or two. I was there, I was
mostly-aware, I would wake to any sudden noise or request. It helped a lot.
You could also find someone who could come to your house and play with them
sometimes (an older homeschooling child, another sleep-deprived mother you
could trade with by going to her house) while you have a nap.
You could nap as soon as your husband gets home while he plays with them for
an hour or so, and then he gets to go to bed at a decent hour (all this
assuming he works outside the house). On the weekends, he can stay up and
you can go to bed at a decent hour.
And it does get better as they get older. My daughters are usually up later
than my husband and I, but at 8 and 5 they're perfectly capable of handling
their own bedtime.
Pam
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