Comments on: Coping with Worn Out Kids http://www.homewiththekids.com/blog/2007/11/06/coping-with-worn-out-kids/ Tips for busy work at home moms Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:53:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Kate http://www.homewiththekids.com/blog/2007/11/06/coping-with-worn-out-kids/#comment-23981 Kate Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:07:18 +0000 http://www.homewiththekids.com/blog/2007/11/06/coping-with-worn-out-kids/#comment-23981 My 7 y/o is too old to nap, too, so we use a 15 minute "quite period" during which he has to stay on a blanket I spread out for him on the floor. (I, meanwhile, lay down on the sofa.) Like you, we start the time over again if gets loud or moves off of his blanket. It doesn't induce naps for him, but I get one myself almost every single time. My 7 y/o is too old to nap, too, so we use a 15 minute “quite period” during which he has to stay on a blanket I spread out for him on the floor. (I, meanwhile, lay down on the sofa.) Like you, we start the time over again if gets loud or moves off of his blanket.

It doesn’t induce naps for him, but I get one myself almost every single time.

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