Hey Guys,

I love spending time with family and friends and most certainly with my wife and daughter. But, and there is always a but, every one wants my little girl to be awake and spending time with them, but everyone, my wife included, lets her out of her schedule. Now, I have to do schedule repair. I’m tired from Thanksgiving and I don’t have a lot of energy. My daughter has red and blue circles under her eyes but won’t take a nap. (I just spent 45 minutes trying to get her to do so.) So now she will fall asleep on her own at 4 PM. I could try and stop that but it seems mean not to let a 2 year old take a nap.

It get’s me, I’m relaxed with my family because they don’t see her very day but I do. It’s important she eat and sleep on a reasonable schedule. I don’t spend all day playing games and letting her run around. I’m her Dad and her caregiver and it’s important to me her schedule stay on track as much as possible. I know she is getting older and changing but at about 5PM she will be “crazy” and I will have to deal. Then my wife will come home and ask why I’m in a bad mood, or tired or some such. It doesn’t seem fair to me or my girl that her needs and dare I say mine, be so obviously ignored.

Anyone else have this problem?