I taught my children a bad habit of sleep – became tedious

We have dinner, we have done the time of the bathroom, and now is the time to start the real mission: bed.

As I look down my clock, I groan inside.

I know it will last up to two hours to sleep my three children, and I’m ready to fall asleep myself.

“I’m the problem. I’m me”

First, I try to cheat the youngest, who is two years old.

As I lie in bed with him listening to him inhaling him â € œbot botâ € then talking to myself for a good 45 minutes as I close my eyes and pretend to go to sleep, I feel my patience fall.

Finally, it leaves.

Next, she is in the siren bed of my six -year -old daughter for books and caresses.

Half an hour with her, she’s out like a light, then my son wants me to lie to her.

While staring at the ceiling in the dark, I think to myself, “Where did I go so bad”?

But I know the answer.

I can literally point out the moment.

It was April, 2020.

Great things were happening all over the world.

Some wound -like viruses did not take care of the mention they had caught and again in Melbourne, my four -year -old son asked me a simple question.

â € œMummy, will you lie to me? â €

Usually, I could have had other things to do, but that special night I had nowhere to go.

I was confined to my house and had all the time in the world, after all, so I replied, â € œure, buddy.â €

And so it started.

“I started the bad habit of the bed”

Night every night during those endless months of the Pandemia, my husband or I would lie down with our son as he went to La-la land.

It was great to start because it was a special time of the day when he would share stories with me.

But as the years rolled over and we had other children, there was more time a challenge.

These days, I will admit that I have a love-hare relationship with everyone-to sleep the habit-dari at the point that lately last year I wrote a piece by pledging I would continue to do it As long as my children would allow me.

Yes, I sound like a total hypocrite now.

But our son is almost 10 and with three children who want us to lie to them until they smell, will become a little tedious.

Recently, in despair, I started putting everyone in bed in our room at the same time.

It means I’m not spending two hours descending everyone, but it also means that the youngest is going to bed later, and I have to keep small people around the house after they are asleep.

When I can’t worry by moving small bodies, they just camp in our bedroom (#goodbesxlife).

I know all this is my fault because I started a bad habit – the one who is proving very difficult to break. Someone once told me before I became a parent, “You will not start a habit that you are not prepared to continue.â €

I should have heard.

But… I also know that it will not be forever.

At one point, my son will not want me to embrace him to sleep, and then I will be in two children, and eventually one, then none.

And so, at the moment, I will absorb it and try to remember to enjoy snuggles.

While they last.