Bedtime Struggles Quotes

I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.

After two kids, I hit the pillow and go straight to sleep.

People always say, 'Is it tough getting up at four in the morning?' I'm not terrible with that, but the weird thing for me is that I start to feel like a 3-year-old in need of a nap at about 7:30 at night; and, at 9:30, my head is teetering like that.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

I can get ready in five minutes, but getting out of bed takes forever.

I'm like a child inside and I really get excited, so sometimes when I'm trying to go to bed, I'm so excited about the next day that I can't go to sleep.

This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!

Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.

Some people come alive at night. I'm hopeless by 9 p.m. Coffee and Cadbury buy me an extra half hour. Often I can't get my clothes off I'm so far gone.

When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

My 2-year-old has become my alarm, so on a good day, 7:30 A. M. or 8 A. M. My alarm sounds something like, 'Mama, where are you?'

I take a nap in the afternoons, and I'm in bed at 9 P.M. It's a struggle sometimes.

I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.

I don't sleep, but I've got two little kids that don't sleep, either.

You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.

Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.

I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'

Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.

I'm knackered. I'm knackered all the time. My stupid, tiny children wake me up at 5:48 A.M. every single morning.

I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.

Unfortunately, I have a child who doesn't sleep.

It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.