Parenting is much harder than I expected it to be. I spent a lot of time with my friends' kids and I had daycare kids at my house 10 hours a day. Although I knew it would be a challenge, I did not expect to want to pull my hair out as many times a day as I end up wanting to do that. Bald would not be a good look on me, so I manage to refrain.
The biggest challenge right now is SLEEP! I did not think that at almost 2 years old David would be so hard to put to bed at night. He was always the child who I could read to, cuddle a bit, and then put in his crib and he would put himself to sleep.
Enter separation anxiety.
David will not go to sleep without crying and crying and CRYING unless I am in the room when he falls asleep. Then, even once he falls asleep I have to remain in his room or he will wake himself up and cry because I am gone. As I type this, he is staring at me...from his crib. I know it is a phase. I know he will grow out of it. I hope that when he is 15 he does not require me to watch him fall asleep. Right now as I am living it, it seems like I will NEVER get an easy bedtime with this child again.
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