Our “Staying Healthy” unit today included the importance of sleep. We discussed what sleep looks like, what we take to bed with us, and later read Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. We drew pictures of our animal friends sleeping and acted out a bedtime routine during dramatic play time. They even each decided to read their animal friends a bedtime story, and one got swaddled like Hud’s baby…
Every single parent tells you to enjoy sleep before you have kids. It’s not that I couldn’t imagine it, I just hadn’t experienced it…which made me realize that the infant stage of next level sleep deprivation is likely meant to prepare us (quickly) for what’s ahead. It gets better, not so much because it gets exponentially easier, but because we learn to adapt…and then…