MSE Parents Club Part 7

searching_me

hope they go ok MM x

BrunoM

All,

What's reasonable/practical as an approach to get toddlers (say 1-2 yr olds) to take their naps? When they're clearly tired and need to.

Controlled crying stuff is cruel too young, and ineffective too old... when do people feel it's OK to leave baby in their cot crying because they should be asleep?

tiamai_d

Bruno, if he is refusing to sleep will he have quiet time while you read him a book? I think they just get to a stage where body says sleep, brain says stay up and some quiet time is about the best you will get. Might bore him to sleep?

searching_me

bruno depends really i know when jaydens crying for attention when hes in his cot and i let him cry for a little bit then pick him up ... zoe was a very attention seeking child and when we first got her used to sleeping in her cot on her own she was 1 and we let her cry til she got tired as we knew she just wanted to be picked up ..

on the nap matter i dont think ive insisted on a nap time zoe used to just drop she'd be playing then just sleep but generally se was wide awake ... jaydens the same but i always found the longer there awake during in the day the longer they sleep at night x

jillie1974

Sami_Bee wrote: »

can anyone tell what brand of jumper dean the chef is wearing on This Morning? it looks soo cosy I want one!

no idea where the jumper is from but... he's well fit!!
:D

emlou2009

i dont know about a toddler bruno, but i do leave seth to cry himself off to sleep sometimes. he will usually go off himself quite happily but sometimes he kicks up a bit of a fuss, when he does i tend to leave him 5 or 10 mins and then go and put his dummy in, he is usually ok after that. if he isnt and it gets to about a half hour of crying then i give in and go and get him. he is 7 months so i would say its probably fine to leave a older child for a bit longer maybe?

emlou2009

speaking of that dean the chef person, i didnt realise he was actually a chef! he usually does the delivery driver bit on takeaway the takeaway or whatever its called. the good food channel addiction coming out there :rotfl:

he is rather tasty... he should swap with jamie oliver to be the naked chef, and then actually be a naked chef

jillie1974

good night again last night. Kian fell asleep after his last feed at 11.30 woke at 4.30 for change and feed then woke again at 8.30.

hubby keeps picking up though everytime he's awake or cries a litle, i'm trying to get hm used to settling himself and not being picked up all the time.

jillie1974

emlou2009 wrote: »

speaking of that dean the chef person, i didnt realise he was actually a chef! he usually does the delivery driver bit on takeaway the takeaway or whatever its called. the good food channel addiction coming out there :rotfl:

he is rather tasty... he should swap with jamie oliver to be the naked chef, and then actually be a naked chef

:j:j fab idea... now what channel will that be on....

carlamagee

BrunoM wrote: »

All,

What's reasonable/practical as an approach to get toddlers (say 1-2 yr olds) to take their naps? When they're clearly tired and need to.

Controlled crying stuff is cruel too young, and ineffective too old... when do people feel it's OK to leave baby in their cot crying because they should be asleep?

Karte is 2 and NEEDS her naptime or else she is a greumpy lil so&so in the evening and doesnt eat her dinner, gets up to mischief, generally is out of sorts for her. so i ensure she gets at least 1/2 hour nap. usually around 1pm! (she is still asleep now!) but there has been days just recently, where ill put her up to bed, and she will just sit in heer cot playing and talking to herself (playing peek-a-boo with herslef in the mirror!) if that is the case, i let her do that for 30mins or so, just for her to realise she needs some quiet time! She doesnt cry, more a whinge when we first put her up, for all of the time it takes us to go downsstairs again, so i think she knows that this is what happens cos we have been doing it since about 1 year old?

(sorry, that wasvery longwinded!!)

searching_me wrote: »

i always found the longer there awake during in the day the longer they sleep at night x

really? i found it the opposite!! If Katie has a long lie-in, she will still have approx hour nap midday and then still need to be in bed by bedtime and still sleep through til her normal time!! -- take Monday for example, she slept until 10.15ish, had a nap from 12.30-1.45pm and then in bed by 7.30pm and sleeping by 8pm !!!!
Children all very very different!!!!!