What is your child’s daily schedule?
Until today, QQ still cry whenever I send her to school in the morning. She has to be dragged out of bed, each morning, forced to dress and shoved into the car. Of course, reaching school, either her teacher will have to pull her out from the car, or she walk down herself very unwilling.
But when I pick her up from school, she seems happy. Ask her if she wanna go tomorrow, surely she will say “YES” (of course, it is another story the next morning).
I wonder if she really get not enough sleep at night. I have been putting her to sleep earlier than usual and this is our schedule:
7.00am: Drink milk (still sleeping)
8.00am: Wake up (unwillingly)
8.40am: Reach school (crying)
12.30noon: Pick her up from school
4.00pm: Nap
6.00pm: Wake up to play
9.30pm: Go to bed (but only knocked off at 10something)
Oh, God, tell me, if there is something wrong in her schedule that I still need to adjust? Or it is only her temporary whinning? Probably I should get a pocket watch to time all her activities!
Hi Chinnee, I think the reason why qiqi not used to getting up early in the morning is bcoz you’re not working and both of you can get up late and to sleep late too. For me, I have wake Sean up every day at 7am boz I need to prepare myself for work. You may try to make her nap time earlier in order for her to sleep at 9:30pm sharp. Nap at 4 - 6pm is too long and too late liao. She won’t be able to go to bed at 9:30pm. I am also trying with Sean now. Hope it helps!
thats my guess also….so now bringing her to room by 2pm since she needs some time to knock off :O
Don’t worry, she will be adapted to new schedule soon. She just not use to wake up early….nap only at 4pm??!! Too late for kid….All the while, Jona and Isaac sleep early around 9.30pm, but, they wake up around 7.00am since baby ler…so Jona totally have no problem of waking up nor Isaac…and both of them, take nap around 1.30 or 2pm….
Jo, QQ comes back late, eat and mandi liao also 2pm oredi.
Take away the nap if she doesn’t need it and she might be ready for bed by 8:30pm?
Try…
haha..she wont be able to sleep thru the nite if it is too early
no worries…she will get adjusted soon and she will love school so much so till u will have difficulty getting her to go back! hahahaha
just need to get rid of her for the time being, too tired, hehe….
hello…ur girl will slowly adjust to it. give her some time, it’s still a new beginning for her
Hi Ling, thanks. I do really hope so :p
emm…maybe the afternoon nap change to 2pm? so that she can sleep more earlier at night.
yeah…agree with you!
Yes, I agree with the others to make her nap earlier. Except for naptime and wake up time which is 6.30am, Mei Mei’s schedule is the same.
wow…so early!
my niece also goes to school but she naps earlier……aroung 3pm and is up by 5 - 530pm
yeah….prob QQ sleeps too late.
I agree with them for an early nap or no nap all..hope soon she’ll adapt to this new routine..sigh, I might face d same problem when Josh starts kiddy..
Arent u excited, JPP mom?
Hmmm..perhaps not because of sleeping late at night. Brae used to like school. After the previous holiday, he seemed to dislike school. He cried and unwilling to step in the school compound. However, he has no problem waking up early despite sleeping late at night. Hopefully it’s just a phase or perhaps he doesn’t like the teachers there anymore. LIke QQ, he seems happy when we pick him up.
Don’t worry lar. Just give her some more time and see how lor. Okay, don’t stress yourself up.
thanks Khong, will give her more time to adjust herself
let her nap around 2-2.30pm, she will be tired coz wake up so early. nap for 1.5 hrs is ok already, if nap too long also cant sleep early at night. if she can skip the nap, she can go to bed early around 8-8.30pm
thanks, I m now bringing her up at 2, cos she need some time to “pengsan”!
Hi, Chinnee. Try not to let her sleep in the afternoon. So she will be tired at around 7-8 at night. Let her sleep thru the night, then she will be fresh in the morning. Let her warm up abit before she goes to school.
Yenny, tried that. she wub b too awake by 12 midnite
Like wat every1 says, try to let her nap earlier. In my opinion, she’s still too young to be nap-free. Anyway, it’s just a matter of getting used to. XY used to sleep late n wake up late b4 starting kindy. But after awhile, she got used to it.
prob everyone is right…i feel she still cannot skip nap too, wud b too tired!
I hope she is just refusing to go to school temporary
hope so, Janice :p
nap at 4pm will be a bit late, that’s why she can only doze off at 10pm n definitely won’t be enough sleep for her to wake up early. my boy n gal nap at around 3pm or sometimes earlier.
i m trying to make it earlier, but hard for her to knock off immediately
haiya…she manja with u only. same with my clarissa. even though she’s gone to kindy for half year last year, she still cry when i wake her up for school and cried when the teacher take her from the car. when i went to fetch her..she so happy and wants to go to school again but the next morning, the same cycle begins.
penat or Miche, like that hor!
oh when it comes to nap/sleeping time, no matter what time she sleeps, if she wants to cry when it comes to going to school, she will still cry. nothing to do with not enough sleeping.
dun believe me? u try lar.
Miche, i feel the same too…
or maybe she has make it a habit to cry when time to go to school?
oh, i hope not, this lazy bum-bum (just like mummy when young)!
I think she’s not getting enough sleep. Whenever Tee gets 12 hours sleep at night, wake up damn cheerful but if get less than 10 hours at night, grumpy, whiny, difficult morning, dont wanna go school, cry blablabla….
My problem is if she naps, she only gets tired about 4pm. Either I let her nap but wake her by making lots of noise or tempt her to wake up by suggesting fun things or fun treats and only allow her 40 min nap OR keep her awake and feed her dinner by 5pm, then keep her awake or take her out so she stays awake till 730pm, then let her pass out.
They need a minimum of 12 hours sleep a day on a 24 hour cycle. I’ve tried and tested this in different variations and really, the lack of sleep is what causes a difficult child. You mustn’t miss the window when they are tired. Once you miss it, they get their second wind and not tired already!!
As for school, give her 2 weeks before she adjusts and starts realising that school is actually fun. My tee also crying all the time….
Wow….40min is too short ler…But Patsy, if she sleeps too early at nite, she will not be able to sleep soundly in the mid of the nite.
guess she’s not used to getting up early?
thats my guess too :0
may be bcoz schools just started for 2 weeks, i think she can get in her schedule soon. dont worry as most of my friends’ kids also cry like hell when wake up from bed to school in the morning….I will have this experience when Marcus turns to 3 yrs old next yr.
thanks a lot, comforting to know most mum experience the same :p
Guess what she needed most is time.
Who knows, maybe next time she refused to go home leh?
haha….pengsan lo that time!
maybe you can adjust the nap time and make it earlier, say 2 pm
thats the only thing i could try now :p
so fast u oredi got new schedule for QQ
Aku still strugle with my Xuan Xuan pre-school & schedule & my whole family’s life up side down!
Hope all these nonsense will end soonest!!
yeah..it will soon, Kelly!
Wah, if my gals wake up from their nap at 6pm, they wont be able to go to bed until at least 11pm.
yeah…now that i found out ! Thanks!
ya.. I agreed that the nap time is too late.. need to adjust.. ^_^ .. good luck!
u r right! It is much better now
i think qi qi’s shedule is alright… en en schedule is even worst. We can’t predict what time she will sleep at night everyday… *sigh*
dont worry, Sharine, once they grow up, they will become more lazy :0