Hi all

DS1 has only fairly recently stopped having his afternoon sleep (AHHHHHHH is all I can say) so I am trying to get him to have quiet time to allow me some time to myself or to do jobs etc. BTW is turned 3 in August.

DH and I have spoken to him about the need for quiet time and have said he can watch a DVD or quietly read a book and sometimes this works but quite often he wants me to be lying down next to him and sometimes this is OK but sometimes I need to be doing other things. Or he wants me to read to him and I am feeling like this is defeating the purpose of him having quiet time as I want to have some time to myself IYKWIM. (reading to him at any other time of the day is fine!) If I dont stay with him he is up and down all the time and is talking constantly (which normally of course I dont mind) and can be quite loud in a house where the other two children are generally sleeping at this time of the day.

My DH is away a LOT and when he is away it is even more important tor me being able to cope with doing everything on my own that he has this quiet time but I just dont think I have it right yet - if this makes sense.

Am I expecting too much from him for him to be able to have quiet time on his own?

I find that this is the time I am most frazzled during the day as I just need a little bit of time to chill.

ANy suggestions as to how I get him to have this quiet time?
Thanks heaps
Jem