I am currently in a relationship that is ready to move to marriage but we both have kids and we both have different ideas on how to raise our own kids. My toughest issues right now is preventing us from moving in together and living as one family. Bedtime routine: I put mine to bed at 9 sweet dreams and off to sleep they go, his has to watch tv till they go to sleep, just as long as they are laying down it's ok to him. I do not have cable in my kids room. so when he brings his kids over to spend the night, school night or not, mine go to bed and his make a pallet on my living room floor and watch tv till they fall asleep, mine want to know why cant they stay up?? well, we discused living together and he wants cable in all rooms so they can have the tv on for "noise" and mine stay up til the tv goes off because they are night owls. he has 1 boy and 1 girl, i have 1 girl and 3 boys we only have a 4 bedroom home how do i handle bedtime??????? i disagree to cable tv in kids rooms. kids range from 6-9 for the boys and 10 and 11 for the girls.Pleas any suggestions!!!!

I'm with you that kids should go to bed without the tv. If they need white noise to fall asleep consider a fan or maybe low relaxing music that all in the room can live/sleep with. As a person myself who can't fall asleep in complete silence I can appreciate the noise argument but cable tv would have my kids watching until midnight at least! Good luck