✨💭 tiny-ass tyrant: sleep regression 101 🌪️👶🏼✨
💤✨🛌🏼
a "sleep regression" is
a common period around 18-24 months
where developmental leaps,
separation anxiety,
teething,
and boundary testing
cause sleep issues
like nap refusal,
early waking,
and frequent night wakings.
💭
—
yo, sam—
🪞👱🏼♀️✨
i know your kid
is going through
fucking prolonged
✨sleep regression✨
and
you’re out here
absolutely
fucking alone.
but shit
remember✨—
you goddamn
prepared for this shit.
you’ve basically built her
a fucking toddler penthouse suite—
babe.
🧸😩💥✨🍼
blackout curtains,
twinkle lights,
fluffy ass dog sidekick,
boujie ass floor couch, 🤯✨
fucking playslide,
goddamn canopy bed,
yo—
Caillou concierge service
on repeat.
💎👶🏼👑✨
shit.
she’s not suffering;
she’s staging a fucking filibuster.
but shit.
when you’re alone?
and your kid fucking objects?
idk! ✨💭
you feel like an asshole.
😈✨🛌🏼
but babe,
remember!🪞👱🏼♀️✨
here’s the blunt reality:
✦ she’s protesting
because you’ve drawn
nap-time boundary.
✨shit✨—
she’s
being a tiny-ass tyrant
because it’s too good
and she knows you’ll eventually
walk back in.
sam.
girl.
she fights sleep
like the direct fucking enemy
of the goddamn sandman.
✦ the only way
this stops being a nightly battle
is if you hold the line now.
if you cave, she learns:
freak out long enough,
and no nap necessary.
🤔💭
bitch,
you cave every time.
in like 5 fucking seconds.
girl.
if you don’t
quit that shit,
she never learns:
rebel all you want,
👶🏼💥🔥
the rule holds,
and eventually
sleep takes over.
😩💔
baaaabbbyy—
you’re not being cruel;
you’re breaking a cycle.
right now this
tiny dictator 🌪️👶🏼✨
runs every second
7am-whenever bro.
nah like,
zero breaks.
ever.
hold strong babe.
✨💥😭
