Tuesday, January 17, 2012

They can be taught! (But success is fleeting...)

As I mentioned in my last post, I wasn't feeling very good this weekend. On top of all that I had a bit of a knitting crisis (yes. That is a real thing.) and I just took a time out from technology. I'm finally feeling better and I think I have the knitting issue resolved, so now I'll play catch-up...

Last Wednesday night as we were getting ready for bed I gave Lila a very stern talking to about the fact that she was NOT welcome in my bed anymore. Not that I really expected it to stop her, because I've given her the same lecture any number of times already. So imagine my surprise when I woke up the next morning to find this...


I had told her specifically that if she came upstairs in the night she would have to sleep on the floor.


Huh.


I guess she does listen after all...



Good Morning Jake!


She was surprisingly chipper for having been asleep on the floor. I thought we'd finally solved this problem, but a few nights later I learned I have to tell her specifically not to get into my bed every. single. night. 
Back to square one...

3 comments:

Amanda said...
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Amanda said...

We're still hit and miss with Justin. It worked really well for 30 days to give him a smiley face each night he stayed in his bed. He got to go get a Lego set he'd been dying for when he got his chart all filled up. We figured 30 days would form a habit, but it turns out all habits can be broken. Even the good ones. He is getting way too heavy to haul back to bed twice a night. I suppose like most things in parenting it will require constant consistent effort on our party. Drat.

Amanda said...

On our PART. I deleted the first spelling error, but am too lazy to fix the second and re-post. Not my day.