Well here we are at 9:25pm eastern time and Elizabeth ,our second youngest daughter dose'nt want to go to bed."Everyone else is in bed little girl, you should be too" she just whines away in her crib.Yet all day she wanted to go and take a nice long nap and I did'nt let her because I know exactly how she is...she'll want to stay up later.Now my husband has her in the bed with us and now she's falling to sleep.Will she grow dependent on falling asleep in the bed with us now because she has been doing this alot lately too.I guess it's because the baby is in the bed most of the time with us because I'm nursing her,still.I'm glad that we've got the kids on a sleep schedule that works for them .I know they don't like it but they've got to just deal with it.The children are in bed by 7pm.We have done it this way simply because they would always say that they were always tired.So we changed the time instead of 8 it's 7.School starts early in regards to the bus getting here , so we have to wake them up by 6 am.How do you get children to stay asleep on the weekend and or long holidays like Thanksgiving -Thursday and Friday.That's what I'd like to know.Because every weekend it's exactly the same,they wake up soooo early, then when Monday Morning comes that's when they want to sleep in?! why?