Moms of toddlers

holly321 · December 2013

How do you get your child to go to sleep? Dd goes through phases. Sometimes I can lay her down, give her a kiss, and she is out. Then we have weeks were it takes over a half an hour of me repeatedly laying her back down.

ericalee27 · December 2013

Honestly, in the last few months, DS1 has gone through a whole "I'm scared!" routine at night whenever someone would try to leave and lose his mind, so one of just lays with him until he goes to sleep. I know it's not forever, and I really like the toddler snuggles because they are so few and far between these days, so I don't mind doing it -- although I know it's not for everyone.

holly321 · December 2013

We did that with her for a long time a few months ago, she was saying she was afraid of a bear. Right now, she keeps saying she needs me, and as soon as I lay down with her, ,she starts to laugh and want to play around.... So in other words, she is full of it and doesn't want to sleep.

downtown80 · December 2013

We go through phases with our toddler too. Right now she is afraid of dinosaurs and creepy shadows (her words)! She is also in the "one more book" phase, trying to drag out bedtime as long as possible. After we leave her room, she may also cry hysterically. When we check on her, she asks for "one more hug".

We are just trying to stay consistent with our responses. We read the same number of books, will come back in once, and at that point tell her that we are not coming in again.

Funny thing is that she told DS that she wasn't coming back in again when I was trying to get him to bed last night. It was really funny and cute that she was imitating us.

Oh yeah, and DH is doing shadow puppets to try and make her not afraid of the shadows.

I really like the phases where she just lays down and closes her eyes!!!

kelly321 · December 2013

We still have DD1 in a crib :-S (is that a FFFC?)

She figured out during her nap on Christmas Eve that she can climb out of it, though, so we're considering taking down the side to make it into a junior bed. However, I'm reluctant because she's good about not getting out when it's bedtime at night. She tries to procrastinate every night and often cries when we leave the room, but she settles down really quickly (within 2-5 min) and will sometimes talk to herself for up to an hour before actually falling asleep. I think if we had her in a regular bed, she would be getting up, though.

holly321 · December 2013

@kelly321, I am jealous. Dd started climbing out at 18 months, now she climbs in with DS. Glad to seek am not the only one. It took over an hour to get her to bed tonight.

kelly321 · December 2013

holly321 said:

@kelly321, I am jealous. Dd started climbing out at 18 months, now she climbs in with DS. Glad to seek am not the only one. It took over an hour to get her to bed tonight.

Yeah, now when she gets up in the morning, DD1 loves to race straight over to DD2's room, go in, and turn on the light. Poor DD2.

We just got a Gro Clock and love it so far. The one we have is this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Gro-clock-Children-Groclock-Shipping-Worldwide/dp/B00DUW3WUA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388475705&sr=8-1&keywords=Gro+Clock

Holy crud it's expensive in the US! I mean, here it wasn't cheap, but "only" about $60.

There are cheaper ones, too, though. The principle is that the kid learns to stay in bed until the clock says they can get up. Right now it's working pretty well for DD1 for naps, when otherwise she would just climb out of her crib right away. Yesterday she stayed in her crib awake for 1.5 hours (!) before finally falling asleep about 15 minutes before the clock would have told her she could get out of bed (she had a couple of little books in there with her to keep her entertained). When we take down the one side of her crib I think our rule will be that she has to stay in her room until the clock changes, then she can come out. That way she's not trapped in bed the whole time and can choose whether to use the time to play or sleep, but either way I get my quiet time!

Linds619 · January 2014

I nurse DD to sleep and then lay in bed with DS until he falls asleep. Unfortunately, I always end up falling asleep and DH wakes me up. I'm always groggy and usually end up going to bed. Then DD wakes up twice more before I get up for work. We definitely have sleep issues here with no end in sight. :-/

jllmb79 · January 2014

DD#1 usually uses I have to pee as a stall tactic and calls for me to come back because she has to pee again. She is still in a crib so I have answer her calls. I only put on the night light, let her pee and put her back to bed and a sip of water.

I have the big girl bed set up in her room next to her crib but she tells me she is still a baby and maybe when she is 3 she will sleep in it.

kelly321 · January 2014

verovladamir said:

I think around his birthday in April we will try to move him to a big bed because we are potty training right now and I think he will need to be able to get in and out of bed himself.
Also DD's crib is older (a hand-me-down) and it's fine for her as a baby, but I don't think it will withstand toddlerhood, so I want to put her in DS's crib.

Yep, my DD1 is April '11, too. Speaking of potty training and cribs, DD1 wears pull ups but uses the potty 95% of the time (long story why she's still wearing pull-ups.). The other day - shortly after she had figured out how to climb out of the crib- she was supposed to be down for her nap when I heard her calling me from the top of the stairs. I went out and found her with her pants around her ankles at the top of the stairs, saying "Mama, pee-pee, poop." I thought #-o Oh crap. She has no potty chair upstairs and she can't climb onto the toilet, so this is either going to be an @+adamwife+ infamous poop-smear, or there's going to be a pile in a puddle on the bathroom floor.
I went in the bathroom, and somehow she had managed to put her seat cover on and GET ON THE TOILET all by herself!!! There are no stepstools or anything she can use to climb in that bathroom, and has never gotten on it before without our help (it's fairly high). Plus, she must have done it with her pants down. I was thoroughly impressed.

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