Night Owl

From a rather early age I thought it seemed that Nadia was a night owl and that Ian and Oliver are early birds. That still seems to be true. The boys fall to sleep almost immediately at night, and they are prone to getting up too early (although Ian still wakes up too early he has been doing much better about not leaving his bedroom until the Batman clock says 7:00). On the other hand, it takes Nadia awhile to fall asleep at night, and sometimes she sleeps in so late that I have to wake her up in the morning. This is one of the perks of homeschooling in that I usually don't have to wake her up M-F because I can let her sleep later than she would be able to sleep if she was going to a private or public school. Six days a week she's usually in bed at 8:00, and on Wednesdays bedtime is around 8:45 due to AWANA. I am planning to move her bed time to 8:30 when she turns seven. She will need to read or play quietly in her room (can't use her cd player) from 8:00-8:30. I'm sure she'll be fine with that. I imagine she'd be fine with me moving her bedtime all the way to 9:00, but I think she might sleep in a tad too late in the morning. I think for now we'll just move it by 30 minutes. I am trying to establish the pattern that when the kids have a birthday that they start doing one more chore and also will have one new privilege. Staying up thirty minutes later will be her new privilege, and helping me clean the bathrooms will be her new chore (which she's already doing but I won't pay her for doing it after she turns seven).