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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Nap TimeI was once told by my mother that I took a nap every day till I was in the first grade. I remembered being in my room, playing with my toys as quietly as possible, hoping that she wouldn't come in and catch me not sleeping. I asked her, as an adult, if she had noticed that I had ceased to nap and would continue to play instead. She informed me that she most definitely knew, but as long as she had peace for an hour, she didn't mind that I was not slumbering away.
As my oldest daugher nears this age when naps are more for the parent than the child, I have noticed a trend. I thought that I was being sneaky as I would play with my toys, while my daughter is outright loud about the fact that she isn't asleep! How many times will she open her door and ask "Mommy, have I been in my room long enough?"
I enjoyed my alone time as a kid. I loved to play with my toys in my own little pretend world. My daughter seems to enjoy this passtime as well, but she doesn't seem to understand that when she is so blatent about her lack of sleep, that I must come in and put her back into bed. This fact is quite the cause of laughter between my husband and myself. We enjoy laughing about things the kids do each night before we go to sleep ourselves. I now understand what my mom was going through. Kids are inherantly funny, they just don't know it. This little phase of "have I been in my room for long enough" is yet another small example of kids not understanding the true purpose behind the ever powerful nap.
