If you read the post about it, you know that Jack has gone back to pre-school part time. He goes three days a week. Our general bed time routine involves reading two books in bed before tuck in. Jack has a way of dragging this out. I have no idea how he manages to follow along with all the questions he ask through a book reading.
When he started back to school, I decided to make it one book on school nights. This has caused utter confusion in the little guys mind. I thought nothing of calling the night before school a “school night”. He on the other hand points out to me that he didn’t have school that day, so it is NOT a school night. He thinks I’m tricking him, he actually says that…”your tricking me mom”!
So every “school night” I explain it again…him sitting in his bed with his arms crossed over his chest in a huff. I’m thinking of making up a new name so as to avoid this time sucking routine. I think I spend as much time explaining and RE explaining this concept, that I could have just gone ahead and read three books!
So I’m trying to come up with a new name to signify the need to get to bed in a timely fashion because you can’t sleep until 10 in the morning! I’m drawing a blank….even as I sit here really focusing on it, I’m drawing a blank. I’m taking him to school now and will discuss it with him on the way and report back.
Back from dropping Jack at school. We discussed, he said “you decide”…*sigh*, so I ran a few past him and it looks like we’re settling on “early night” which isn’t catchy and isn’t what I was looking for.
I would love some input on this if anyone has a fresh idea. I’m all out of fresh! If you would, leave me your suggestions? Or…should I just stick with “school night” and wait for him to get it? After all, I never made up fake names for stuff for the others when they were young.
