Comments on: How to Keep Preschoolers in Bed at Bedtime

By: Rosabel Vanta

Rosabel Vanta — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:53:22 +0000

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By: frustrated mom of a 3 yr old

frustrated mom of a 3 yr old — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:16:08 +0000

This is an interesting idea, I think we’re going to try it out. My daughter has been 3 for a month, and though we’ve had many sleep issues with my daughter, I had thought we’d finally gotten it under control, until shortly after her third birthday. We’ve always had one of those handle gaurds on her door so she couldn’t get out of her room at night (our room is downstairs and she would leave her room and then call for me, and I wouldn’t be able to hear it over the monitor if she wasn’t in her room…plus she knows how to open the gate and I didn’t want her going down the stairs *which are linoleum and metal* in the dark to get to our room), but I took it off a few months ago. She was staying in her bed when she’d wake up and most nights she was sleeping all through the night. Also she’s potty trained during the day now, and I was encouraging her going to the potty if she needed to during the night. But we had to put the gaurd back in place becuase she after her birthday she started coming out of her room looking for me when she’d wake up, and instead of just calling us in repeatedly at bedtime like she used to do, she’d just come out and stand in the hall. But now we can’t get her to go to sleep at bedtime, because even with the guard back on she won’t stay in her bed. She won’t go to sleep if someone’s in the room with her, so staying with her to make sure she stays in bed won’t work…and just letting her talk to herself, or cry, or throw a fit or whatever until she falls asleep won’t work, because she’s not in her bed, she’s standing in front of her door. We’ve tried going in and putting her back to bed over and over telling her she needed to stay in bed, but the more you go in, the more she gets up…I’m hoping your strategy works, because I’m running out of ideas. And her staying up late isn’t making her sleep later, and she refuses to sleep at naptime. So she’s not getting enough sleep and is cranky all day. she loves books though and is always asking for another story at bedtime, but I’ve always told her she only gets one story. So this might work.

By: offerte concurrent

offerte concurrent — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:33:23 +0000

Very interesting subject , thankyou for putting up. “I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.” by Shakti Gawain.

By: Sheri

Sheri — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:45:11 +0000

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By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:35:58 +0000

Oh my goodness! We have had such a time with our 5 year old preschooler! It was most nights until 10 for a while and we are NOT softies about it either! I finally removed the bright night light from his room and replaced it with a much dimmer one and it was through some pretty heart wrenching scrams and sobs that we discovered that he was afraid of the dark! And here we thought that ended at 3 with the brighter night light! Uh, no. Here is the long story of it all and what we did: http://wwwteachable.blogspot.com/2008/03/whos-afraid-of-big-bad-wolf.html

I am liking your idea though too as he is a big lover of books… I’ll be trying it! Thank you!