Negotiations.

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After lunch Alex seemed pretty tired, as you would expect given that right now her body is a battleground between bacteria and antibiotics. I suggested that she might like to lie down on the couch in the darkened living room and listen to music. She chose Free To Be You and Me, settled right in, and rested or played quietly through the length of the CD. When the music changed, I went in to check on her.

Me: Are you ready to get up?
Alex: I'm still napping.
Me: Okay. (rubs her back soothingly)
Alex: When is wake-up time?
Me: Wake-up time is whenever you're ready to wake up.
Alex: I want you to make a decision.
Me: Okay then, wake-up time is right now.
Alex: No, I'm still tired.

It turned out that she wanted me to designate a time in the future that would be wake-up time. My backup suggestion that wake-up time could be in five minutes was met with perfectly happy approval.

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*smile* That kid...