AUGH!
I spoke too soon! Madame I-can-go-14-hours-and-not-be-cranky is suddenly crashing out for naps again.
Which means she's awake till 10:30 again.
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What do the rest of you do? Should I really let this 2 year old set her own bedtime? Or should I continue uselessly enforcing 9:00 lights out, as I've been doing for months, uselessly? It's a dilemma.
Oh, that is so familiar. Does she read or at least look at books? Our policy was not to enforce lights out, but to enforce (earlier than 9) a staying in bed time; DS was pretty happy to comply provided he had a high enough stack of books. He had phases of wanting someone to come and lie down with him (sometimes very late, after he'd been reading for ever) at which point we'd usually do it, but on condition that he was lying still, not wriggling or playing. By the time he wanted that, he'd usually sleep quickly.
