Naptime MEMO

MEMO

To: My child
From: Your mother
RE: NAPTIME

Naptime is a longstanding routine in this institution, namely our home. It is necessary to the well-being of both mother and child. The evidence of this is ample and will be explained below.

When naptime is avoided, it has a negative impact on the child. Child becomes cranky and falls asleep on the couch at approximately 5:00 p.m., which thereby interrupts the evening meal and other scheduled events. If child avoids crankiness in late afternoon, child simply refuses to stop being active, thereby increasing her fatigue and making crankiness far more severe at bedtime.

Naptime avoidance also causes difficulties for mother on a number of fronts. First, the schedule/routine is thrown out of sync, which causes mental anguish. Secondly, the anticipation of child's crankiness later in the day causes mental anguish on the part of the mother. Thirdly, mother needs an uninterrupted break from child, and child playing in other room quietly doesn't provide mother the same mental reprieve that comes with knowing child is sound asleep two floors away.

Naptime is required under certain conditions: following a day at the pool and when child awakens prior to 8:00 a.m. Failure to comply with these regulations may result in unpleasant behavior on the part of the mother.

For your own benefit and well-being, please keep this memo in an area where you can refer to it frequently.

Sincerely,
THE BOSS!!!!!!!