Nap Strike
October 27th, 2009
Elliot is on a Nap Strike right now. Like, literally right now, as in, at this moment he’s supposed to be napping and I’ve put him down twice but I hear him tip-toeing not-so-quietly up the stairs to see what I am doing. And what I am doing is ignoring him and hoping the situation will resolve itself without me having to get up.
Darn it.
…..
Aaaand I’m back. He’s in bed again but still on strike. His demands are unclear: he wants cereal (”CEE-YAY-YUL”) after nap but refuses to take the nap itself. (Note: I would be more than happy to meet this demand, provided some actual napping takes place first.) His rationale for the strike is also unclear. Reasons given have included: “I too sick to nap,” “I NOT TIRED” (those two seem to contradict each other; either you’re sick and you need rest OR you’re bursting with energy, but not both), and the simple yet firmly stated “I NOT DOING THAT.”
Hard to argue with logic like that.
If this continues much longer I’m going to be forced to give up on the nap and put on WALL-E, thereby revealing my ultimate weakness as a Nap Enforcer: I don’t actually care if you sleep or not. Naptime is for dinner prep, e-mail, laundry, and Twitter — not for round after round of failed negotiations.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Oh, our two little guys should get together (or maybe not, because they might collude) Gabe has been on a nap strike for weeks – and to make it worse, he had been getting up at 5:30am. He was only snoozing in the car – I felt like we had regressed to when he was an infant and I was sleepily driving around the twin cities praying he would fall asleep.
Now I just turn on Dora. Thank God for Dora.