I accidentally taught my children a bad habit of sleep – and has become a delightful challenge: ‘Where did I go bad?’

We will have a dinner, we would have done the bathroom, and now is the time to start the real mission: the bed.

As I look down my clock, I groan inside.

I know they would take up to two hours to make my three children sleep, and I’m ready to fall asleep.

“I’m the problem. I’m me”

First, I try to cheat the youngest, who is two years old.

As I lie in bed with hearing she inhaling that â € botBot botâ € then talking about her for 45 minutes as I close my eyes and pretend to go to sleep, I feel my patience falls.

Finally, it leaves.

Next, she was for my six -year -old daughter, Mermaid Bed for books and caresses.

Half an hour with her, she was out like a light, then my son wants me to lie to her.

As I get up to the ceiling in the dark, I think of Muf, “Where did I go so bad”?

But I know the answer.

I can literally point out the moment.

It was April, 2020.

Great things were happening all over the world.

Some wound -like virus I did not take care of the mentioning and again in Melbourne, my four -year -old son asked me a simple question.

â € œMommy, will you lie to me?

Usually, I could have had other things to do, but that special night I had nowhere to go.

I was locked in my house and had all the time in the world, after all, so I replied, â € œuree, buddy.â € € €

And so it started.

“I started the bad habit of the bed”

Night every night during those endless months of the Pandemia, my husband or I would lie down with our son as he went to La-la land.

It was great to start because it was a special time of the day when he would share stories with me.

But as the years rolled over and we had other children, there was more time a challenge.

These days, I will admit that I have a love-hare relationship with everyone-to sleep “as long as my children would allow me.

Yes, I sound like a total hypocrite now.

But our sound is almost 10 and with three children who want us to lie to them until they smell it will take a little.

Recently, in despair, I started putting everyone in bed in our room at the same time.

It means I’m not spending two hours descending everyone, but it also means that the youngest is going to bed later, and I have to keep small people around the house after they are asleep.

When I can’t worry by moving small bodies, they just camp in our bedroom.

I know all this is my fault because I started a bad habit – the one who is trying very difficult to break. Someone once told me before I became a parent, “You will start a habit that you are not prepared to continue.â €

I should have heard.

But … I also know it would be forever.

At one point, my son would be for you to want me to hug her to sleep, and then I will be in two children, and eventually one, then none.

And so, at the moment, I will absorb it and try to remember to enjoy snuggles.

As he lasts.