“We’ll call bedtime ‘rest,’ because it sure as hell isn’t a good night’s sleep. So, when one of my kids can’t fall asleep, it freakin’ frustrates the heck out of me. Then I feel guilty because my poor child is frustrated she can’t sleep, and here I am, making it worse by getting upset with her. I wasn’t thankful last night. Nope. But then she puts her head on my chest.”
‘I wasn’t thankful last night. I can be a real witch at bedtime. It saddens so much to admit that.’: Mom ‘upset, frustrated’ kids climb in bed with her at night, ‘I threw in the towel’
‘I should have let you sleep with me’
“I regret putting you back to bed, giving a hurried kiss, and shutting the door behind me.”
‘Parenting doesn’t end when the sun goes down’: Sleepless mom records all too familiar timelapse of bedtime with children
“Even I was shocked with the video I watched the next morning.”
