sure, you can sleep with that flashdrive…
for the past few days, the monkey has required the following object for all afternoon naps and night time sleeping:
yes, this is an embroidery hoop.
another friend told me last night that she and her husband have remade their three-year-old daughter’s bed with items that blind them with tackiness. the powerfully ugly bedding, blanket, and matching night light are comparable to the sight of heaven for their little girl, who just spent a long-awaited and much-celebrated night in her own room.
and finally, another friend swears that the best $9.99 that she’s ever spent was for the purchase of this umbrella:
bed time for this child now includes the careful arrangement of said umbrella so as to create a sort of sleeping canopy.
what is it with these kids and their sleeping accoutrements?
what bizarre objects are necessary for bed time at your house?
Tags: bedding, objects, own room, sleeping, three-year-old, umbrella
June 12th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
When I was about 12 and had just started babysitting, the toddler I was watching started screaming every time I took her to her crib. She had all her lovies, and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what she kept pointing at. Turns out, she wanted to sleep with her shoes in her crib. Not on, just holding them. As soon as I put her shoes beside her, she went right to sleep.
Also, when I worked with Twos, my kids insisted on sleeping with everything from towels to lunchboxes to rocks to pictures.
June 12th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
My little bug used to demand to sleep with her shoes on. If someone tried to remove them at bedtime, she would chime in a sing-songy voice “Socks and shoes. That’s my rule.” And both children went through multi-year phases where they slept on those foam, fold-out children’s couches in their beds. We just removed the one from the 5-year-old’s bed two nights ago, and the 9-year-old still sleeps with a pillow that her Nana made from the couch’s fabric cover when the couch started to fall apart. The 9-year-old slept with books (tons of them) in her bed until we installed a tall bookshelf at the foot of her bed.
June 13th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Nothing strange, yet, but she does already require various stuffed animals and lovies, so I think the weird is totally on its way (and I can’t wait to see what sorts of things will find their way to the bed for nap time!).