Family Food

I was musing the other day about television, junk food and bedtime.

My daughter is allowed one hour of television a day, this is either taken as a DVD after nursery or 30 minutes of Cbeebies before and 30 minutes after nursery.

She deffinetly doesn't get ANY television on the run up to bedtime, I get home from work at 5.00, do puzzles with her for 30 minutes while my wife spends some time with the younger boy then I prepare dinner while my daughter does puzzles or reads on her own.

We then sit down for dinner at about 6.00 with the 18 month old boy going to bed at 6.30 and the 4 year old girl going to bed at 7.00 after a bit of story time and a prayer with mum and dad.

We used to let her watch tv before bed but always had a nightmare getting her to sleep.

Since starting this routine about a year ago we have no trouble getting her to bed, she sleeps through until 7 the next morning then sits their playing puzzles until we get up at 7.30.

It also helps that we stopped all sweets and crisps, only giving her fresh fruit, veg and home baked cakes/biscuits so we can control what is in them.

It is amazing how much difference this has made to her and our lives.