What is your child's favorite reason to procrastinate bedtime?

This is a good one! I just saw a funny post that read, "Dehydration before bed, the leading cause of toddler illnesses." Mine on the other hand, will bring 10 books into our room after we have tucked her in. We have to remind her just one book about every night.

My 5 year old conveniently has to go #2 about 15 seconds after we get upstairs to start out bedtime routine.

I still "parent" my 2 & 5 yr olds to sleep, so no tears or procrastinating from them. I love spending time with them at the end of the day reading books, telling stories, and singing songs until they pass out... It's my big kids who creep out of their beds to tell me they are famished and need a bowl of cereal at 9:30 pm!

Mine usually complain they aren't tired, and then promptly fall asleep 5 minutes after the lights go out. There's always a lot of talk about how "awake" they are during bedtime prep though :)

I range from excuse to excuse, read more books, they are thirsty, can't find their stuffed animal etc. I used to think babies were hard to put to bed with nursing and diaper changes. But once kids can talk, that is when all the bedtime craziness really begins.

I have one guilty kid out of my three when it comes to this. He will come out every night and ask question after question that can totally wait until the next day but he demands answers before bed.

This is HILARIOUS. My daughter isn't old enough yet to have excuses, but I remember saying I was thirsty and needed water all the time when I was little. I would never get out of bed, I'd just yell "Moooom" until she answered :)

FOMO. Serious fear of missing out. It doesn't matter what...he just thinks if he goes to sleep something exciting and fun might happen and he won't be there to see it!

Can we an an 'all of the above' option?! I feel like they are good about rotating the excuses!