I usually don't post about things like this, mostly because we really could not have asked for a more perfect child than Alenna but...
We have the hardest time keeping her in her room! She refuses to sleep until 1030pm or so (when she sees that Ryan and I have gone to bed), than she crashes on our floor around 2 or 3am and stays there until around 5am when she runs in Brady's room and decides he has to be awake too. (though if we catch her in our room, we bring her back to her's, but than she's right back into our room...)
We have the hardest time keeping her in her room! She refuses to sleep until 1030pm or so (when she sees that Ryan and I have gone to bed), than she crashes on our floor around 2 or 3am and stays there until around 5am when she runs in Brady's room and decides he has to be awake too. (though if we catch her in our room, we bring her back to her's, but than she's right back into our room...)
AAAAHHH!!! We're going nuts!
And if that's not enough, she will run in and wake Brady up during his naps too.
So, we are thinking we will lock Brady's room, but that still doesn't solve the problem with Alenna. We could lock her in her room I guess, except that doesn't really teach her anything.
Punishing hasn't worked. Bribing hasn't worked. Spanking hasn't worked. We've even given her little projects she could do, like books or puzzles but she just destroys them.
We're at a loss.
Ryan thinks that its not a huge deal, as long as we can keep her out of Brady's room, but than I reminded him that we will have a newborn in our room with us in a couple of months and I don't want to deal with 2 kids waking me up(and each other) in the middle of the night.
Not to mention, when school starts full time for Ry, things are going to be crazy hectic, and Alenna is perfectly old enough to stay in her own room.
I'm far from the perfect parent and just need my sleep! Any ideas???
I don't know, advice???
3 comments:
Oh my gosh I'm so sorry. Katie doesn't leave her room thank goodness. Have you tried to put a child-proof handle on the door? Have you tried rewarding her staying in bed rather than punishing her getting up? When she has, say, 5 stars, she gets a reward that has real meaning for her: a small toy, a trip to the ice cream store, a special video, whatever. You could put a picture of the reward on the door of her room or somewhere near it, so she sees it every time she gets up to leave the room and can think twice about whether she wants to break the rules. I found this site http://parents.berkeley.edu/advice/sleep/outofbed.html or this http://www.ehow.com/how_4849501_toddler-sleep-hisher-own-bed.html
My siblings have all had this issue with at least one of their children. They actually did turn the doorknob around so they could lock them in their rooms and after about two weeks, it does work. They would give their kids one chance, and nicely put them in their beds one time then after that they said okay, that was your chance, now we have to close your door. the kids would kick and scream and yell but within two weeks, they went to bed when they were supposed to and didn't get out of bed.
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