I exposed one of my areas of motherhood ignorance yesterday.

Several of you defenseless it. Hey cheers…I accept been feeling inadequate in this area since Ryan was born.

I was reminded of my cluelessness in this area recently when reading Manic Mommy's chore description. I read this list thinking, "I am doing OK in every surface area except for this one".

I have read parenting books. I take researched. I take spent hours in thought. Yet, no answer.

So I offer up to you, wise and dear readers, my burning question of motherhood:

Does it really matter what weight pajama you lot dress your kid in if you keep your firm at exactly the same temperature year around?

*gasp*

*ahem*

*avert your eyes*

Yeah, I have only admitted that I take no idea whether the boys should exist in footy fleece or shorts and t-shirts.

No book has addressed this. The only reference they brand is something like…simply clothes your baby in one more layer so you lot are wearing.

FINE! But I slumber in shorts and a camisole and under two blankets.

Since babies can't sleep with blankets, do my blanket layers count? And then would that be 2 layers or 4?

What if I throw off one blanket during the night? Should I rush in and strip a layer off of him? So would that be ane layer or 5?

What if I commencement the ceiling fan in the room during the night? Should I turn on his fan and add a layer (or not) or get out the fan off and subtract a layer? So would that be sleeping naked or packed so tightly into multiple pajama layers that the poor kid can't bend his arm to place pollex in mouth?

I live in Texas. During the summer it is hot. Only we don't like the house to exist hot and so we run the air conditioner. Texas winters are mild. But we take very thin claret and run the heater if needed. So really the temperature is the same every night.

To prove my schizophrenia on this issue I took the above motion-picture show tonight (run into the Stars Hockey in the groundwork?) where Ryan is warm and cozy from head to foot and Rhett is sporting shorty married woman beaters. How did I get here?

Oh, did I mention that Ryan won't wear anything else and Rhett will scream unmercifully if his "orangish jammies" are dingy. That is my thought process. My parenting volume volition exist in stores presently…

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Delight note that the title is from one of the greatest pajama resources of all time, Sandra Boynton'south Pajama Time. I can't leave y'all hanging and then let me finish and then you can get on with your solar day:

Now all effectually the room in one big line,
wearing our pajamas and looking so fine.
Information technology'south Pajama Time!

Hop in the bed. Plough out the lite.
You can have a political party in your dreams tonight.
IT'S PAJAMA TIME!
(Hush, Hush)
It's Pajama Time!
(Hush, Hush)
it's pajama time.
(shhhhhhhhhhhhh.)

Kids Activities Blog is Holly'due south blogging home.

She is the co-author of 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest E'er! and The 101 Coolest Simple Scientific discipline Experiments.

She is the mom of three boys ages 13, 15 & 17 who partially homeschools. She believes that you shouldn't take to buy stuff to have fun when there is a kitchen junk drawer full of possibilities.