Bed-Time Blues

I know I have wrote before about The Adventure of Owen in Sleeping, so I will continue with an update on the progress.

Well it’s not going well . . . he continues to throw a grade A class hissy fit when we leave him in is room at bedtime. It’s more that he is calling for “MOMMMMMMIE” than anything else. He wants Renea to lay in the room with him until he falls asleep.

Now he’s not dumb, he knows that Renea is not coming back after we say our goodbyes, but he is VERY persistent. He knows (based on the previous 28 months of his life) that if he cries loud enough and long enough Renea will give in and come back up to lay with him.

Now we have been doing this new way of laying him down for about 2-3 weeks, letting him throw a fit and hoping that he realizes that we won’t give into him. You would think that after all of this time he would start to realize that it’s not working, the screaming, the jumping up and down in the crib, and even the crying isn’t resulting in the desired outcome, which is having Renea come in and lay on the floor until he falls asleep.

The thing I keep hoping about this behavior/personality trait is he will be a one-track mind, nose to the grindstone, hard working, persistent, S.O.B. when he gets older. At least that is what I keep telling myself as the screaming and crying continues.