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clicky poll re: toddler bed time
Despite a nightlight (ok, a fish tank light) or the tv on in his room, DS has been freaking out at night. Bedtime for the past week has been an absolute disaster and he can open his door and always ends up in my bed at some point before morning. After an hour of back and forth tonight I left his door open. He did come out into the living room once, but when I told him to go back to bed, he did. Crying, but he went on his own.
So I'm thinking that maybe he's scared with the door closed? I'm not sure what else to do.
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Re: clicky poll re: toddler bed time
That's how G is. His door has been closed for almost 2 years and now all of the sudden he wanted it open. I guess we'll try this for awhile and hope that the dogs or one of us doesn't wake him up.
Well, I said SS, because we close Hannah's and we leave Sam's open just a crack. However, I just realized that we only leave Sam's open because his door doesn't really close properly. We have to pull really hard to get it to close all the way, and then he has a hard time opening it.
However, there are times when he asks to leave it wide open, and we do. Then when he falls asleep I'll close it to a crack again, since we're in a pretty small apartment and we don't want to wake him up.
I'm a special snowflake as well --
we close E's door once we put her to bed (to deter her from getting up before she's asleep) and then open it to a crack before we go to bed.
we do this at night because dd usually gets up early and climbs in bed to wake us up. we'd rather her not bump into everything on the way.
during the day we close her door because she has enough light to see to open the door.
Closed to keep the cats out.
This doesn't work for everyone, but one thing we did was explain how our house is painted with monster-proof paint on the walls. Monsters just don't want to come into our house, including the closets, because of the special paint. (They go somewhere else.)
I reinforce this myth every once in awhile. It has been working well to reassure our first son that everything is ok and safe here.
Mathis has his door closed because it's always been that way, but when he gets older we wouldn't be opposed to changing it. Truitt has his door open. It's been that way ever since he started sleeping alone. If you remember, he was a terrible sleeper and didn't start sleeping in his own bed until he was almost 3. A sleep book I read (I cant' renember which one it was) said one tip to getting toddlers to sleep on their own is to make sure to keep the "house noises" audible to them so they know you're still there and that normal stuff is going on in the house. I can tell you that on most nights, Tru can hear me cleaning up the kitchen from dinner or something BUT on the occasional nights where I go back to my room or just sit on the couch, he has more trouble falling asleep.
Anyway, my answer for toddler is open