We're using this week before school starts to get prepared. Not that we haven't in some sense all summer. The boys have been practicing their math skills as well as writing and reading.
But in the summer, the bedtime schedule goes out the window. 10pm is probably the typical bedtime most of the summer. Sometimes later.
But that doesn't fly during the school year. We aim for around 8:30. Maybe a little later for our oldest--a 4th grader now.
So tonight we're kicking of the earlier bedtime. The youngest has been in bed for an hour. Still awake.
This is to be expected.
The kicker comes tomorrow when we wake them up early. And keep doing that all week. No more sleeping in (which they can't since both my wife and myself are working this week--the boys have to be up to leave with one of us).
I expect there'll be some battles. But I'm hoping it'll pay off once school starts in a week.
Here's hoping at least.
