Our days and nights have become inside out. The kids stay awake until the wee hours of the morning and sleep the best parts of the actual day away. It has become a pattern, a habit and it makes life harder.
The dilemma is that I don’t really know how to switch it right now. I have two teens in need of sleep, and two pre-teens in the beginnings of a growth spurt. Sleep is a necessity. To top it off our community has become a perpetual petri dish with every bacteria known to man. I exaggerate but going around is a stomach bug, cough with fever, strep throat and all kinds of illness in between. Plenty of rest, a proper diet, hand washing and pushing fluids is our usual course to keeping a healthy immune system. I fear forcing an appropriate sleeping schedule will result in one or all of the above illnesses.
So what to do in the meantime. We are homeschooling so as long as work is getting done then who really cares that they didn’t start at 7am. The housework is getting neglected. The important stuff like dishes and laundry are happening but the dust has started to pile and the dust bunnies are forming a revolt. Household projects like the boy’s room makeover are going slowly and I am sad to say the dreaded pile is still in the living room. It is smaller but it is still there!
I guess I won’t stress and worry too much. To everything there is a season and right now they need to grow. There will be plenty of time for early alarms and deadlines but right now I think that they just need to rest and grow and develop their minds and bodies. In the meantime I will work on slowly adjusting a schedule for us to right side out our days and nights.
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