My 2 daughters (6 & 3) have a bedtime of 7:30pm, since they have to wake up at 5:30 every morning to be dropped off at before school programs/daycare, so my husband & I can get to work on time. I realize this is earlier than normal for a lot of kids, but they have adapted well, and continue to wake up at this time on weekends.
If the stay up late, they are at the point where they still wake up a the same time, and are just crabby all day the next day from not getting enough sleep. The younger one will still take a nap, which will help, but not the older one.
My problem is that some good friends of ours have invited the girls to her daughter's 7th birthday party which will be on a Friday night from 7:30-9:30pm. Because they are good friends, and our kids just love to play together, I want to let mine go, however I don't want them to ruin the party should they go into meltdown mode from being overtired and staying up so long after their normal bedtime.
My husband thinks if we let either of them go, it would just be the 6 year old, and keep the younger at home. I kind of think our younger one would do better, since she still gets a 2 hour nap at daycare and usually takes a longer time to fall asleep at night anyway. So if we take one, why not take both? But then again, do I really want to deal with tired, crabby kids all day on Saturday?
Any thoughts/ideas? (Oh, btw, they party is at an ice skating rink, which neither of my kids have been to before. I don't know if that would help or hurt the situation any.)
If the stay up late, they are at the point where they still wake up a the same time, and are just crabby all day the next day from not getting enough sleep. The younger one will still take a nap, which will help, but not the older one.
My problem is that some good friends of ours have invited the girls to her daughter's 7th birthday party which will be on a Friday night from 7:30-9:30pm. Because they are good friends, and our kids just love to play together, I want to let mine go, however I don't want them to ruin the party should they go into meltdown mode from being overtired and staying up so long after their normal bedtime.
My husband thinks if we let either of them go, it would just be the 6 year old, and keep the younger at home. I kind of think our younger one would do better, since she still gets a 2 hour nap at daycare and usually takes a longer time to fall asleep at night anyway. So if we take one, why not take both? But then again, do I really want to deal with tired, crabby kids all day on Saturday?
Any thoughts/ideas? (Oh, btw, they party is at an ice skating rink, which neither of my kids have been to before. I don't know if that would help or hurt the situation any.)