What rules should we set out to make bed time succesful?
March 16, 2009 by Discount Luxury Bedding
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We are moving our 3 year old girl into our 1and 1/2 year olds room. What rules should we set out for bed time. The oldest potty trains during bedtime too. what can I expect the youngest to understand and do when it comes to bedtime rules? Right now she has the room to herself, she is in a toddler bed. She gets two toys at bedtime, and she plays in her room until she falls asleep, it takes her about 30 minutes to fall asleep, and we keep her door closed so she cant get into things if she wakes up in the night and we dont hear. Our 3 year old is used to sharing a room with her brother (he is going to be 5 thats why we are moving her) so she is used to staying in the room and falling asleep with someone else in the room. The bedtime rules the 3 year old is used to are : you get one toy, stay quiet, stay in your bed, leave the light off, no jumping or climing around on your bed, leave the other person alone so they can fall asleep. I think this is too much to expect from the youngest.
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We are moving our 3 year old girl into our 1and 1/2 year olds room. What rules should we set out for bed time. The oldest potty trains during bedtime too. what can I expect the youngest to understand and do when it comes to bedtime rules? Right now she has the room to herself, she is in a toddler bed. She gets two toys at bedtime, and she plays in her room until she falls asleep, it takes her about 30 minutes to fall asleep, and we keep her door closed so she cant get into things if she wakes up in the night and we dont hear. Our 3 year old is used to sharing a room with her brother (he is going to be 5 thats why we are moving her) so she is used to staying in the room and falling asleep with someone else in the room. The bedtime rules the 3 year old is used to are : you get one toy, stay quiet, stay in your bed, leave the light off, no jumping or climing around on your bed, leave the other person alone so they can fall asleep. I think this is too much to expect from the youngest.
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Bedding Feedback: you have to start off slowly..add one rule at a time so she can get use to it. Just be constistant don’t back down and before you know it she will be following the other child.
Bedding Feedback: I have a 4 year old daughter and I am still trying to figure out how to get o bed early! 30 minutes isn’t a bad time. My daughter ends up in our bed! I would wear her out as much as possible during the day! No, sugar at night maybe a night time story might help! Good luck!
Bedding Feedback: thats a hard one due to the age,,try letting the younger one fall asleep first then take the older one to bed.
Bedding Feedback: I have been thinking about moving my 3 and nearly 2 year old together. I think I’ll wait until the little one is out of the crib. But I think it would be hard to set rules for the littlest one. I think read a story turn out the light and stay in bed is the rules and just keep reminding them that. Eventually they will grow out of it.
Bedding Feedback: your lucky it take her 30 mins…… my dtr take alot of the time 45-60 mins and we have to lay with her….maybe you can try to give her a bath before she goes to bed to help relax her and maybe read her a story. i wouldnt shut the door, but maybe put a safety gate in the door way so she doesnt get out. i would be to affraid if someone broke into my house or something happened that i wouldnt be able to get to my dtr.
Bedding Feedback: I think it starts before you enter the bedroom - make sure you have a rock solid bedtime routine!!! For example in our home we have a list of steps for before bed (mostly written in dry erase marker on the boys’ bathroom mirror - pictures instead of words of course). The steps are get undressed, put your clothes in the hamper, brush your teeth, go potty, take a bath, jammies, 2 stories, 1 song and then sleep. It has never taken my 3 1/2 year old longer than 5 minutes to go to sleep because he knows the routine and has a lot of winding down time with all that to get ready. He is a great sleeper and our one year old is definitely learning it too! A routine is the best thing to teach them what is expected each night….
Bedding Feedback: I agree with “Connor and Logan’s Mommy” the most effective tool you have for bedtime is a routine. Kids love structure. Notice how Blue’s Clues and Dora the Explorer and other shows use structure to keep young kids’ attention and help them learn.
Other helpful techniques. If a toddler does something you don’t want her to do, just physically pick her up, gently and with a positive tone of voice tell her simply “no we can’t do that.” (or similar) and introduce her to an appropriate alternative. Keep doing this until she stops going after the inappropriate choice.
In your case, the inappropriate choice would be getting out of bed, jumping, etc. And the appropriate would be quietly playing in bed. (I would go easy on the quiet part for a while, too)
Patience is all you need. It will turn into exactly what you are after in a short time. Usually one to two nights.
The key is to avoid creating conflict. If the child feels disapproved of at any point she will need comfort and will be unable to progress until she feels approved of again.
Also, helpful is keeping a healthy sense of fun throughout.