Not the Gym

[notodette]

Sometimes you're supposed to go to the gym, and your kids, who on a normal day would be up and about by 3:30 p.m. latest, are still asleep at 5 p.m. So you wake them up and get them ready to go, through tears and wailing of course. Then someone has to go to the bathroom. Everyone has to wash their hands. Out the door. It's 5:35, the class starts at

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[n3m3sis42]

I know this makes me the devil, but I do not let Max nap later than a certain time unless he is sick or something. He rarely does anyway, but if he's still sleeping by 3:30 pm I wake him up because no matter what time he goes to bed, he's still generally up between 5:30 and 6:30 am at the latest. The only way he EVER sleeps later than 6:30 is if he's been up playing for an hour or more at some point in the wee hours.

Oh, and because you asked a while ago and I don't think I ever answered, he's been going to bed between 8 and 8:30 pm these days. It was 7-7:30 but I used Daylight Savings as an excuse to push it back an hour and it has helped with the early mornings a bit. Before that, we were routinely getting a 5 am wakeup call and it was not okay.