Bedtime

Watching your angelic child sleep snoring softly, absolute bliss.  Waiting for your excited, somewhat hyperactive, bouncy child to reach his/her angelic state can be very tiresome.

My children had a bedtime routine, dinner, bath, song, I then kissed them and out I went. Jaimie followed, I tried ignoring her, spanking her (once), not talking and just putting her back to bed. When I turned around there she'd be the cutest grin on earth. In the end I lay down with her till she fell asleep, I read and didn't reply to her.

Thankfully most children aren't this stubborn and will stop coming out if consistently put back in bed for 3 to 4 evenings.