My Children, Sleep, my Husband, our Counselor

Ok, I’ve written about this all over the place and there is a reason for it.  The reason is this, what you read below happens Sunday through Thursday night.  Friday and Saturday nights are camp-out nights which merely means they sleep in the living room floor.  I am determined to solve this before Sunday gets here and I have to listen to my children cry another night.  Read on,

They go to bed fine.  They watch about 15 minutes of Blue’s Clues or Thomas the Train (I insist on these two because the others are too active, those two should bore anyone to sleep).  When it goes off, usually one of them is asleep.  It doesn’t matter though, it happens if one is asleep or their both awake.  After another fifteen minutes or so, they start asking if they can go to “momma’s bed”.

Side Note:  I don’t know why they say it the way they do but it is “momma’s bed” and “momma’s bathroom” although Wayne and I both sleep and bath in the respective rooms. 

When we spoke to the counselor about this, he said, “tell them no and put them back in bed”.  And, Wayne said that he would do that but I would give in after they got up a few times.  So, I agreed to let him handle it.  Well, here’s my analogy, correct me if I’m wrong….

Human Beings cry when they are unhappy, correct?  And, my children are crying, so that means they are unhappy, correct?

I am an only child.  I remember having insomnia as far back as age eight.  I couldn’t stand my mom’s new husband and I would lie in bed for hours sometimes.  And, I would cry.  I hated being alone.  And, I would cry.  So, what I said about my children crying, that means they are unhappy right?  By the way, the counselors words to me when I explained my thoughts on this matter were “don’t project that onto your children, that was you, not them.”

I’m literally begging for some answers.

Here’s a link on the same subject

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