Making bedtime changes

[mamalisa]

Sigh, school is beating down our door and I need to make some changes to bedtime. Ds will be getting on the bus at 8:10, the problem with that, is dd is still asleep right now at 10am. The bus is a 3 minute walk each way, so I have to take him so she has to come with us (obviously). If the bus stop was right outside the door she could stay asleep, but no such luck. I know that I should have woken her when I got up, but the thought of dealing with a cranky pants baby for a few days makes me want to cry.

[Justmee]

Well first let me say how jealous I am!! My 7/05 dd has not slept past 7am in.... well in her whole life.

I would back up her bedtime slowly to readjust her to waking up earlier. Or try waking her 15 min. earlier each day until she's at the right time.

Good luck!

[chinaKat]

Does your son really need you to walk him to the bus?

I mean, the first few days he might, but you said it's only a 3 minute walk.

[MomInCalifornia]

I do everything in my power not to wake a sleeping child, so my first plan would be to see if I could find another parent who goes to the same bus stop to trade off with. Maybe your child could walk with them to the bus stop, and then you could pick the children up from the stop and walk them home in the afternoon.

I'm not sure how old your son is, but I'm guessing maybe 7 from your sig. Is your area one you would feel comfortable allowing him to walk by himself, or with a few other kids?

If none of those were options, I guess I would suck it up and wake up th elittle one, but I probably would be grumpy about it :-)

[mamalisa]

We live in a subdivision, but there aren't a lot of kids and none walk. There's one other family and she drives the kids to the bus stop everyday but I'd feel weird asking her to take mine all the time. I would happily take hers, but feel awkward about asking her to take ds. I'm weird.

He really could walk alone, but I feel like since I'm here, I should walk him. I think at 7 I would have felt pretty lonely walking all by myself. But ds is a lot more secure than I was as a kid. Really, I could see him the whole time too. I'm pretty sure I'm being an overachieving worrywart.