Getting 3 yr old to sleep in

td

Thanks for all of your speedy replies. She wakes up because that's the time she wakes up naturally I think - she comes into our rooma nd we try to keep all dark and get her to go back to sleep but it doesn't work. We have black out blinds and it doesn't seem to matter what time she goes to bed or whether she has an afternoon nap or not. I could cope with 6 o clock but it's 5 every morning. I'm hoping starting nursery, which she did today, may make a bit of difference.

May have a look at that clock though - might just get a radio one and say she can't get out until it's playing music - she loves music.

td x

kissmekate_2

Hi

We have had exactly the same problem with my eldest now 4.5 yrs

we worked out that it was the boiler firing (which is amazing since its a very quiet new combi style) that was like the on button to our daughter.

We now have her sleeping till 6am. when she wakes she is fairly good about going to watch childrens TV on her own.

good luck! Yawn.. bleary eyes

jellyhead

i saw a bunny alarm clock somewhere, the bunny wakes up, young kids would notice that because his ears shot up, his eyes opened etc.

my boy knows he can't come into my room until the music comes on in my room. he reads etc. until then if he's awake early. when he was little he would get into my bed and fall back to sleep with me :-)

mini

We have used a digital alarm clock for our children, about £5 frm Argos I was against the idea as I thought it wold hold them back from learning to tell the time on a clock. They can have lights on from 6.30 school days 7.30 weekends, we used sticker charts for a while to brainwash them

I also think th eknoledge of time has helped them understand time on a proper clock, 7.30 is half past & it means something to them when you show it to them on a proper clock (or a jigsaw one in our case) they play with toys or look at books, from 8am weekends they can come into our room, if they come in before they know we'll be grumpy unless it's important, dressing Barbieis not considered important at that time!

Best of luck, sleep is precious, mini

Savvy_Sue

dressing Barbieis not considered important at that time!

LOL. We Mums can be SO unreasonable at times, can't we? Just not got our priorities right at all! ;D

But I think you have to realise that some kids just are early morning people, you may never get them out of it (until their teens)

Jay-Jay_4

dressing Barbieis not considered important at that time!

Neither is fastening 'Snow White' dresses that button up the back, getting a tape out of the stereo because it's stuck, finding CBeebies on the downstairs telly, OR WATCHING THE BINMEN OUT OF THE WINDOW >:( >:(


::) ;D

Sarahsaver

My son, the 4 year old, got up startled and ran downstairs yesterday, a little too early for my liking, but he wanted to know if we were safe. I asked him why and he was worrying that a big wave would come and get us too. Can't be annoyed with him really for that. (aaaah)
Last year I used a blackout curtain from a photographer's that i bought on e-bay. That was good, made the room super dark.

Savvy_Sue

Neither is fastening 'Snow White' dresses that button up the back, getting a tape out of the stereo because it's stuck, finding CBeebies on the downstairs telly, OR WATCHING THE BINMEN OUT OF THE WINDOW >:( >:(

;D ;D ;D

Never had the Snow White problem! The tape I might respond to, if I thought little darling couldn't be trusted not to make it any worse.

But watching the binmen? Yes darling, you watch the binmen and tell me what they're doing. I'll stay here in my nice warm bed. They're lifting the bins up on the back of the lorry and tipping them in, are they? That sounds SO exciting. Yes I expect they are cold out there at this time of the morning. (Once, I could have asked intelligent questions about what type of bin lorry it was, but that's a long time ago ...)

Glad

children are just made all different
I have two, eldest was always ready for bed by 7pm and would be wide awake by 6am every morning,
youngest just wouldn't go to sleep until after 10pm whatever we did and regularly slept until 9 am or longer, they are 12 and 11 now and still have the same sleep patterns, some weekends I'm waking son up at 11.30 am ;D

when they were 3 though I put a child gate across the bedroom door and laid out some toys and daughter generally amused herself while we slept a bit longer.

starting school does seem to help though, they get extra tired so need that extra sleep
bless 'em

Freebie_Hunter_2

Errrr ... don't 99% of 3yr olds wake up at silly o' clock? Kids do this.

Don't put them to bed too early and discourage any daytime naps so they'll sleep through.
I have to say that does sounds really cruel!

All the mums I know get up when their kids do, even if it is at 5am.
I do know that they discouraged naps and the 5am soon turned into 6am, then 7am.