We are horrible parents!

[james'mommy]

Wednesday DH was sick with some kind of ickiness. He gave it to me and I was sick yesterday. I took nyquil last night and fell asleep around 9. DH wakes me out of a dead sleep at 10:30. He fell asleep after me and forgot to put DS to bed. He was still up and watching tv. It was scout night and we usually let him stay up until 9:30 instead of the usual 9.

 

[okeydokey]

Why did your DH wake you up? Hope you are all feeling better. One late night never killed a child.

 

[james'mommy]

Not sure why he woke me up. He was probably hoping I would get up and put James to bed. Well he was wrong. I rolled over and went back to sleep.

 

[Britgirlus]

LOL - I'm sure your son will survive Mine would have been telling us it was past his bedtime ! Though the other night ds6 went to bed as usual at 7.30pm, dh went to bed at about 8.30pm (wasn't feeling well), and I went to bed to read at about 9pm. I turned out the lights at about 9.30pm, and heard ds go to the bathroom a few minutes later - unusual, but I thought nothing of it. At 10.30pm, ds appears at my bed, wondering why we weren't up yet ??? He thought it was 10.30AM !!! LOL - WHY he though I would still be in bed at that time, I don't know, as I'm always up by 8am at the latest Plus - it was pitch dark outside, which should have given him a clue. He had been watching the soccer channel and playing on my iPod. I explained that it was 10.30PM, and took him back to bed. Last time HE eats brownies late in the day !

 

[pixiewings71]

OP how old is your DS? I think he'll be fine, my girls get to stay up until 9:30 normally. By 9 they are telling me they need to get ready for bed. I hope you feel better soon and you know, I would have smacked DH and told him to go take care of DS! LOL I'm glad you went back to sleep!

 

[declansdad]

I don't think you are bad parents, just someone who like to post on the dis to get a reaction from people. Case in point your past threads concerning your family and marriage.

 

[2Tiggies]

Don't be so hard on yourself. If your son was happy and safe, it is fine. I can sympathise with you because I am not well this week and everything takes ten times the energy it usually does. The fact that you are concerned about it says enough - you are a great parent! You just can't be perfect all the time - just like the rest of us! I hope you are feeling better. You need to be kind to yourself right now!

Oh, and if it makes you feel any better, I am a single mom so when I fell asleep on the couch last night, there was no other adult in the house to check on DD. She is 7 so it probably isn't the end of the world, but still, I tell you this so that you know - we are human.

 

[MrsAlly]

when kids are tired they fall asleep, it doesn't kill them to be up really late once in a great while, just be prepaired to pay for it the next day if they can't sleep in - my little one makes up for when she can't go to sleep by sleeping a little more or longer naps on the weekend - it all works out in the end, just sometimes the parents pay the price with cranky or overtired kids and that's no fun at all!!!

 

[RMulieri]

ahh don't worry about it...it happens.We have had this happen when me and Dh were both sick.How old is your son? I know the one time we did this my 5 yr old put herself to bed..She is actually very good about it.

 

[leslie826]

LOL...at least he was watching tv instead of getting into mischief!!

 

[james'mommy]

I don't think you are bad parents, just someone who like to post on the dis to get a reaction from people. Case in point your past threads concerning your family and marriage.

I don't really see how this is relevant to the thread.

 

[james'mommy]

My son is 7. The problem was he knew it was past his bed time and he didn't care. We asked him why if he knew it was so late didn't he come to get us. He said he checked on us and didn't want to wake us up. If DH hadn't of rolled over at 10:30 and woken up because the lights and tv were on who knows what time he would have eventually fallen asleep. We would have found him passed out in his beanbag chair.

 

[pixiewings71]

Oh, well at 7 my girls were putting themselves to bed at the right time, whether I was up or not. If I was sick I just said "bed by...." and they went. I'm sorry he wasn't in bed already, and I'm still sorry your DH tried to wake you up to take care of it. Hope you're feeling better soon!

 

[2Tiggies]

My son is 7. The problem was he knew it was past his bed time and he didn't care. We asked him why if he knew it was so late didn't he come to get us. He said he checked on us and didn't want to wake us up. If DH hadn't of rolled over at 10:30 and woken up because the lights and tv were on who knows what time he would have eventually fallen asleep. We would have found him passed out in his beanbag chair.

That is pretty normal for a seven year old, I think. Some kids will ask to go to bed when they are tired, others will put themselves to bed and plenty of them will cash in on the opportunity to stay up a little later. And falling asleep on a beanbag chair isn't something to worry about IMO. He was quite safe. I wonder how many kids have fallen asleep on one couch watching TV when a parent(s) have fallen asleep on another because the adult was unwell or exhausted. I will admit that there have been one or two occasions when this has happened to me and I woke in the small hours of the morning, then had to wake DD because she was too heavey to carry upstairs. Don't worry so much.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

My son is 7. The problem was he knew it was past his bed time and he didn't care. We asked him why if he knew it was so late didn't he come to get us. He said he checked on us and didn't want to wake us up. If DH hadn't of rolled over at 10:30 and woken up because the lights and tv were on who knows what time he would have eventually fallen asleep. We would have found him passed out in his beanbag chair.

He's 7 and you fell asleep and now you are mad that he didn't wake you up to put him to bed? Really?

 

[GOOFY4DONALD]

He's 7 and you fell asleep and now you are mad that he didn't wake you up to put him to bed? Really?

I have to agree with this one. Most nights my kids balk at going to bed and try to weasle more time out of me. If I was asleep they would stay up until they were tired. You are not a bad mom and 30 extra minutes never hurt anyone but as the parent it was your job to get son to bed not son waking you up to go to bed.

 

[mommy2allgirls]

I have to agree with this one. Most nights my kids balk at going to bed and try to weasle more time out of me. If I was asleep they would stay up until they were tired. You are not a bad mom and 30 extra minutes never hurt anyone but as the parent it was your job to get son to bed not son waking you up to go to bed.

I agree with this too! I know if I feel asleep my kids would have taken advantage of that and stayed up. They try to weasel out of bedtime almost every night. You aren't a bad mom, I have fallen asleep before too sometimes we get sick and things happen. We learn from them and move on.

 

[a1tinkfans]

This is one of the strangest threads!
Not sure WHAT is going on here, but I LAUGHED, so THANKS!

 

[james'mommy]

He's 7 and you fell asleep and now you are mad that he didn't wake you up to put him to bed? Really?

I'm not mad at him at all. I just thought it was funny that he knew it was past his bedtime but he was sweet enough to not want to wake us up.

 

[tam626]

This is one of the strangest threads!
Not sure WHAT is going on here, but I LAUGHED, so THANKS!

I must agree.