Getting the Kids Ready to go Back to School

Posted by Gaylord Campbell


This year we had a particularly difficult time getting the kids ready to go back to school. They are finally at the age where they managed to stay up until midnight (and beyond) on New Years Eve, and this made getting them back on the correct sleep-cycle completely impossible. I think it's more of an age thing than anything else.


On New Years Eve, we as the parents knew that we would be going to bed before the kids and their cousins, so we told them they could stay up, but they needed to remember to set the home security alarm (ADT HOME SECURITY ) before they went to bed. We couldn't do it because they were playing flashlight tag outside. When we woke up in the morning, of course they had forgotten, but we easily forgave them. Family went back home on New Years Day, so I thought the next two days would be enough to prepare them to go back to school.

The next two nights we tried to put them to bed early, but it didn't work out so well. They were in bed, but not asleep until midnight. So we let them sleep in, and we ended up taking them to school an hour late today.