We moved our full size spare bed into Brooke's room in an attempt to bribe her to stay in her own bed all night. Instead of putting the twin bed downstairs to collect dust, I decided to put it in Cole's room. He was all excited and refused to sleep in his crib so I decided to let him try the big boy bed. It lasted about three minutes before he jumped down and came running out. Mom is definetly not ready for that! An hour of crying in his crib later he finally gave in and went to sleep. Silly boy!P.S. If anyone has any suggestions on how to get Brooke to stay in her own bed all night I'm willing to try anything at this point. Everynight around 2 or 3 she comes and gets in our bed. Of course she gets in on Matt's side so he just scoots over and I don't even know she's there until he leaves for work in the morning.
Wow, it makes them seem so little but grown up at the same time when you move them to a big bed!
ReplyDeleteAnd this may or may not be child abuse, but we put a child door lock on the inside of Sawyer's bedroom door..... :) After a few days of him falling asleep on the floor he started to stay in his bed..... again, child abuse, I'm not sure, but it's worked for us!
We've done basically the same thing as Traci with Mark. But we switched his doorknob so the lock is on the outside. He'll scream and kick for a little while but eventually falls asleep. We had also tried bribing Kenzie, we got a chart and if she got so many stickers in a row (for sleeping in her bed) she got a new pair of pajamas or something that she wanted.
ReplyDeleteRyan is not going to try a big boy bed until he is putting himself in danger by trying to climb out of his crib. I have learned a valuable lesson from your experience.
ReplyDeleteI know when Dustin was growing up if any of the kids came into their parents room they had to sleep on the floor. They were never allowed in the bed with them.
ReplyDeleteTurn her doorknob around so the lock is on the outside. :) Ok, really my boys' doorknob is like that, (we didn't do it) and we do lock it every night to keep them in there, but we always unlock it after they're asleep. So that wouldn't really help if she comes out in the middle of the night. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteAnd I just saw that someone else already wrote that.
i do the same thing as traci! it works. Dax finally after like three nights of fussing by his door and falling asleep he just lays in his bed. It works wonders for us! good luck.
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