Lesson for today:

If you don’t force bedtime on your one- and- a- half-year old daughter , she will spend the last half hour in her day trying to pack in as much as possible. She will run around the room screaming like a banshee, speak to the mirror, chew off the tail of a stuffed toy, periodically walk up to you wanting to be carried and then immediately get down from your lap to run around in circles like a dog chasing its tail, tap at the key board in an attempt to change the music, throw her head back and laugh when you change the music and finally when she is ready she will lie down on the bed and be fast asleep in 30 seconds- all this if you dont force her to sleep.