Thursday, February 10, 2011

Sleep

MAC has been begging us to let her stay up longer at night.  Mostly because she wants to watch whatever is on Disney channel.  I have been holding pretty tight to the 7:30 bedtime.  It used to be that she only stayed up a little extra on Tuesdays due to girl scouts and Glee but the Wednesday evening group is keeping us up later too.  Tonight she headed to bed around 8:45. 

I am looking forward to how well she gets up in the morning.  I have been reading about how much sleep a child and a teen needs.  For the most part they need at least 10 hours of sleep.  She tends to be lucky if she can get 8.  She has recently begun to take melatonin but tries very hard every day to get out of taking it.  I finally asked her doctor to prescribe it so that we wouldn't have the fight anymore.  It didn't help . 

I hope she makes it through school tomorrow!

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