How to stop 2 year old coming into mum and dad's room at night?

notanewuser

Somebody posted this on facebook. I think its my philosophy on childrearing:

I won't always cry, Mummy,
When you leave the room,
and my supermarket tantrums,
Will end too soon.
I won't always wake, Daddy,
For cuddles through the night'
& one day you will miss ,
Having a chocolate face to wipe.
You won't always wake to find my foot,
Is kicking you out of bed,
Or find me sideways on your pillow,
Where you want to lay your head,
You won't always have to carry me,
In asleep from the car,
Or piggy back me down the road,
When my little legs can't walk that far.
So cherish every cuddle, remember them all,
One day Mummy, I won't be this small.

claire16c

notanewuser wrote: »

When I was growing up, the people next door didn't want their children going downstairs to the loo (they had lots of stairs). They had potties in their rooms until they went to secondary school.

Til secondary school? :eek:

Surely a kid of 8 or whatever would just go down the stairs to the toilet regardless? How odd.

notanewuser

claire16c wrote: »

Til secondary school? :eek:

Surely a kid of 8 or whatever would just go down the stairs to the toilet regardless? How odd.

Their house was not well maintained at all, so I suppose they were being careful.

I was babysitting round there once and the kitchen ceiling collapsed on me!!! I mean the entire ceiling came down!!! :rotfl:

claire16c

notanewuser wrote: »

Their house was not well maintained at all, so I suppose they were being careful.

I was babysitting round there once and the kitchen ceiling collapsed on me!!! I mean the entire ceiling came down!!! :rotfl:

Wth! :rotfl:

Once a bathroom ceiling came down on a girl I knew at uni -dodgy student landlords!!

valk_scot

Claree__x wrote: »

Is a 4 year old using a potty not a bit weird? I don't have all that much experience of 4 year olds but I have a cousin at this stage now and know that I started school at 4...

I'm old enough (54) to remember the potty that lived under each bed in the house. It was either that or the outside loo, which was a cold trek at 3am....

And talking of cold treks, we have a bucket in our big family tent when we go camping so we don't have to trail across the camping field every time someone needs a pee. It's just pee in a container that gets disposed of hygenically in the morning. Nothing weird at all about it...and better than a four year old wetting the bed because they don't want to go all the way to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

daska

We all used the po at Nanna's until she got an inside loo - I think I would have been about 15. Who wants to leave their nice warm bed to go traipsing through the cold and damp to a spider infested shed... the po was a luxury only rivalled by the stone hot water bottles.

zaksmum

daska wrote: »

We all used the po at Nanna's until she got an inside loo - I think I would have been about 15. Who wants to leave their nice warm bed to go traipsing through the cold and damp to a spider infested shed... the po was a luxury only rivalled by the stone hot water bottles.

OMG how posh were you with the stone hot water bottles!!

My Nanny used to heat a brick up and wrap it in old rags to put in bed with us to keep us warm:) no such luxuries as stone hot water bottles!!:)

Ms_Chocaholic

I remember when I was young my grandma and grandad lived in a bungalow in a sheltered housing complex. Despite the bungalow having only two bedrooms and the bathroom being literally two steps across the hallway from the bedroom door, my grandad still used a chamber pot, and it was often still full under the bed until late morning/early afternoon when we visited, I remember it stank (sorry hope you've all had your tea)

Ms_Chocaholic

Just chatting to my OH about my dear old grandad and a thought .... how on earth did he aim correctly to hit the chamber pot in the middle of the night, without waking my grandma by putting the light on.

Spendless

notanewuser wrote: »

Somebody posted this on facebook. I think its my philosophy on childrearing:

I won't always cry, Mummy,
When you leave the room,
and my supermarket tantrums,
Will end too soon.
I won't always wake, Daddy,
For cuddles through the night'
& one day you will miss ,
Having a chocolate face to wipe.
You won't always wake to find my foot,
Is kicking you out of bed,
Or find me sideways on your pillow,
Where you want to lay your head,
You won't always have to carry me,
In asleep from the car,
Or piggy back me down the road,
When my little legs can't walk that far.
So cherish every cuddle, remember them all,
One day Mummy, I won't be this small.

And when this stops, the following which was on my mother's day card, starts;

I leave my clothes
and my things everywhere
and the state of my room
makes you pull out your hair

I answer you back
yep, that's definately true
and I pull that strange face
that all teenagers do

Yet you cook and you clean
and you feed me as well
and keep giving me cash
while I just give you hell

But let me assure you
it's only a phase
and in no time at all
I'll be changing my ways

So please Mum relax
and just go with the flow
cos although I don't show it
I love you, you know.