I hate to break it to you with pre-teens, but--frankly--I got a lot more
sleep with a nursing baby and nursing toddler (who sometimes nursed in the
wierdest positions!) day and night than I did when that same baby became a
nearly-driving and then driving teenager!  The rule at my house was he had
to be home at midnight on non-school nights and by 10 those nights.  I have
to tell you that I NEVER slept until he was home safely in bed--this lasted
until he was 22! (I only got out of the habit when he was working summers
away from home in addition to going to college out of state!)

So much for gorwing out of night-waking.  :-(

(And I do not think I am unusual in my reaction.)  I won't even mention my
concerns about the "dating game," which--for him--did not really begin in
earnest until he went to college: group dates only were of interest to him
prior to that.




Def. of LC service: "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Homewood, IL)- [log in to unmask]