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The Egyptian goddess Isis was celebrated as the ideal wife and mother. The blogger known as Dr. Isis has some fancy-sounding degrees and is a physiologist at a major research university working on some terribly impressive stuff. She blogs about balancing her research career with the demands of raising small children, how to succeed as a woman in academia, and anything else she finds interesting. Also, she blogs about shoes. In fact, she blogs a lot about shoes.
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Posted on: April 28, 2009 3:02 AM, by Isis the Scientist
It is 3 am and Dr. Isis has a major deadline she is trying to meet on a project. 3 am, all she wants to do is get a few hours of sleep, and Little Isis has just woken up, crying, "Sandwich! Saaaaaaaaaaandwich!"
Figure 1: I am not hilarious at 3 am
So, what's a woman to do? I'm going to make the kid a sandwich.
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when I was little Isis's age, I made my own gdmn sandwich at 3am.
Posted by: llewelly | April 28, 2009 7:12 AM
You're a much nicer mommy than I am. At 3 am I tell my daughter it's not time to eat, it's time for sleeping. If I didn't do that, she'd eat dinner at 3 am every damn night. Bad enough her baby brother eats all night, I can't have both of them awake and eating!
Posted by: Mara | April 28, 2009 7:40 AM
As a father of three, I can assure you that this can *quickly* become a habit with the kids. We always had a sequence of events that preceded bedtime (jammies, brush teeth, reading) to serve as cognitive cues, then bedtime. Period. We went through a time where, just after bedtime, there'd be a "Mom/Dad, I have a growing pain/need a drink/need to pee" sort of moment. Eventually, I convinced my wife we needed to address this, put the kibosh on it, typically with a firm "if you have a growing pain now, you had it five minutes ago, now go back to bed." Miraculously enough, all of the growing pains were cured, as were the overactive bladders and dire thirsts by this process.
Posted by: TGAP_Dad | April 28, 2009 9:55 AM
We have a 5 am cut-off for breakfast, or any eating after dinner-fruit-dessert. Now that I'm weaning #2, I'm hoping to be free of all middle-of-the-night feeding obligations. All they get is water... that's all I get anyway!
Posted by: Patchi | April 28, 2009 10:01 AM
The most important word for a child to learn is "Daddy." Especially at 3am. While I'm pretty good at the "go back to bed, it's NOT food time" speech, my husband is the expert.
Of course, with the youngest 16, I don't really know what the kids are doing at night. Now I'm working with the cat. When you wake up with a paw in your mouth (and you KNOW where that paw has been), you'll pretty much do whatever it takes to appease him.
The cat is almost 18, so we humor him a bit. Probably more than we should, but he'll be dead soon.
Posted by: Pascale | April 28, 2009 11:44 AM
I think I would be laughing so hard if my son woke at 3 a.m. wailing "Sandwich!" that I, too, would end up making one.
The second time he did it, however, there would be no sustenance-- or humor-- forthcoming. ;)
Posted by: The Perky Skeptic | April 28, 2009 1:26 PM
My daughter is prone to middle-of-the-night awakenings in which she wakes up still screaming about whatever she was having a temper tantrum about when she fell asleep.
This has led to such 3 am cries as "stingray!" (because I took away her stuffed stingray as a punishment) and "I'm hungry".
You haven't lived until you've been awakened at 3 am by someone yelling "stingray" at the top of their lungs. I think I yelled "land shark" back. She didn't get it.
Posted by: Mara | April 28, 2009 1:49 PM
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@ Pascale
Probably more than we should, but he'll be dead soon.
...truelol...
Now _there_ is a life strategy...
...tom...
' who now must ensure his adult children do not adopt this thinking... '
Posted by: ...tom... | April 28, 2009 3:13 PM