Your child falls asleep on the drive home from daycare. She's been sleeping for an hour now. Bedtime is 7:30. When do you wake her?
Your child falls asleep on the drive home from daycare. She's been sleeping for an hour now. Bedtime is 7:30. When do you wake her?
eggplant / 11287 posts
Nope. I never wake them, ever! I just go with the flow!
ETA: BUT. We don't have to be anywhere in the mornings other than preschool 3 days a week which isn't until 9. So it's NBD when their schedule is thrown off. I can see that being different for a child whose parent has to be at work (and therefore child at daycare) early the next day.
grapefruit / 4355 posts
DD can nap, be up for 30 minutes then eat a bottle and go down for the night without problem.
So I'd wake her up about 30 minutes before bedtime.
pear / 1521 posts
I'd wake her up by 4:30 (normally we get home by 4). Normal bedtime is between 6-6:30 and I'm fine if she's up a bit later too. But she seems to have no problem falling asleep again about 2 hours later.
pear / 1558 posts
I make sure LO will be up an hr before bedtime. Usually she'll go down fine, but sometimes needs 2hrs between nap & bedtime.
nectarine / 2987 posts
I'd wake within 5 minutes of being home or I'd wake 5 minutes before dinner.
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
I'm a super schedule person so I'd probably wake her right away. lol I need her to be in bed by or before 8 or I'll start to lose it.
nectarine / 2521 posts
@gingerbebe: Hahaha, I've totally done the same on quite a few car rides home. Nothing more terrible than a 10 minute car nap and he's done!
hostess / papaya / 10540 posts
Depends, what time is it? Like an hour or two before bedtime I would wake right away.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
@Freckles: @gingerbebe: @Applesandbananas: hahaha you made me laugh, thank you.
It was 5:30pm when I posted that. I let her sleep until 6. She was groggy until 7. Asleep for bed by 8:30. It worked out okay. I think she was just exhausted from an emotional week and I found out she didn't nap at daycare that day. So, it was kind of expected - warm car ride home.
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