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If you have one or more boys what age are they and is it a struggle every night to get them to go to bed? DS #1 never goes down easily (he did when he was younger). DH was trying to tell me that we have boys and they will never go to bed easily because they want to stay up and play etc (basically he was telling me, its a boy thing, get used to it).
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Re: If you have a boy
Love!
My ds goes to bed very easily. He's usually sound asleep within 1-2 minutes of putting his head on the pillow!
My dd, on the other hand, whew. She's the late-night party girl of the household.
I have a DS, and I put off putting him in a toddler bed or twin bed until almost three because I was not ready for the fifty times of putting him back in the room each night if he got up.
We have never had to do that though, he knows it's bedtime and there is no fighting about it. He goes willingly. Sometimes we read a book, sometimes we don't have time, but it's not usually a struggle. I know that's not what you wanted to hear. I wish I knew how we got so lucky.
DS1 goes to be easily IF he didn't nap. If so, he can be a tool.
DS2 always goes to bed easily.
DD takes a while to go to bed but she is really good at entertaining herself quietly.
Ian has always gone down fine, for the most part. When we moved him to his "big boy bed" around 3, he went through a phase of wanting us to come in over and over, whining etc. Finally what worked was telling him that we had to go do some work downstairs and we couldn't come up anymore. (Not sure why this worked).
Max's sleeping SUCKED until he turned one. Then he decided ok, time to STTN. We had to rock him w/a bottle until 18m at which point he decided he was too big for that and ever since has gone down fine. However - he's still in a crib so check back with me once we move him...
I have three boys, and they've all gone through phases of being easy or difficult to get to bed. My older two had it down sometime before they turned two. My youngest just turned two, and he does resist bedtime, but it's getting better. These days, we only have issues with the older two when they're having a sleepover with their cousins. And it's usually my niece who stirs the pot in that situation.
I don't think this is a gender issue.
DS1 used to go to bed without any issues...until we moved him out of his crib to a twin when he was 3. For an entire year we dealt with him getting up a bijillion times a night. It was a living nightmare. Probably the worst year ever. Then we sat down and made a sticker chart. I told him when he got 7 stickers he would get something that he's been wanting (a transformer at the time). It was like magic. We did sticker charts for a few months (he'd lose a sticker if he got out of bed) and now we don't even do them anymore. He just goes to bed. He may get up once in a while after putting him to bed but it's a rarity.
DS2 goes to bed without any issues (naps are a whole other story). I'm hoping that the sticker charts will work on him as well when the time comes!
Liam is 5!
This exactly. DS did go through a phase where he used every delay tactic in the book, but he is out of that now.