Comments on: Derailed by a Car Nap

By: Angi

Angi — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:32:53 +0000

Yeah, I just don’t get it. Just like I don’t get WHY on Saturday and Sunday my 3 kids are up WITHOUT prompting from me – at 6:30 AM – while on school days I drag them out of bed with shouts and threats at 7:15AM!

By: Jaime

Jaime — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:21:32 +0000

Mine can fall asleep through my awful singing in the car, but one little whisper at home wakes him up! I can’t believe I haven’t thought of rolling the windows down. I’ll try that next time. thanks!

By: Katrina (Callapidder Days)

Katrina (Callapidder Days) — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:23:40 +0000

Oh, I hear you. This is why my almost-2yr-old boy and I do not ever leave the house after about 11:00 am. Because if we’re driving home anywhere around 12:00, those loooong blinks show up. And then, like you, I must start playing with the windows. Even when it was 17 degrees outside. Anything, to keep him awake, to preserve that precious naptime.

By: Annabelle

Annabelle — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:02:23 +0000

My boys too!! All 4 of them followed that pattern!

By: Joanne

Joanne — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:12:34 +0000

And why is it that a parent can’t have that same experience? Can you imagine…close your eyes briefly, drift off for a mere 3 minutes and bam! You are refreshed and rejuvenated to stay up all night with the baby.

By: dad

dad — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:41:32 +0000

What a nightmare it is! We start playing “I Spy” as soon as their eyes start to roll into their little heads.

By: Becoming Me

Becoming Me — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:27:26 +0000

I feel your pain. I do my best to avoid car napping, but sometimes it is unavoidable.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:33:41 +0000

Both of my boys followed this crazy pattern. I don’t know WHY!!??!!
I know a woman who did a lot of babysitting. When she’d take her day care kids out to run errands, she kept a spray bottle in the car. If the kids started dozing, she would squirt them in the face. I’ve never had the heart to do that, though!

By: SL

SL — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:14:33 +0000

Oh, I do the exact same thing. The boy seems to think that if he sleeps in the car then he can play with mommy all afternoon.

By: Janera

Janera — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:52:04 +0000

It’s one of the things the nurses whisper in their ears before they are discharged from the hospital at birth. These are the nuggets that are wickedly planted in the cherub’s brains before they are released to us:

1. Do the car nap thing just to irritate the snot out of your parents.
2. When mom gets on the phone, begin pulling at her shirt tail, smearing chocolate pudding into the rug, or pouring your own milk from the jug. There are other activities which also work to meet this particular objective. These are only suggestions.
3. When dining out, choose from one of these diversionary tactics:
a. announce loudly that you need to go poop
b. throw spaghetti on the floor or into the hair of the old lady at the next table
c. cry. cry. cry some more.

It’s a conspiracy, like I mentioned. Evil.