 | hi. I don't know if you still monitor this or not...but it's nice to know that I'm not the only one. Our little angel is 2 1/2 and wants us to sleep in his room(on the oh-so-comfortable floor) or he screams himself hoarse. And wakes up our 8 mos old littlest angel.
And when he(oldest-Cadell) was a baby...everyone was amazed at how "good" he was. He slept all the time...he was the buddha of all babies.(not so our second...Dane. He's a good baby, but not exceptionally amazingly good.)
Our current theory is that this is one of the only things that Cadell can control in his environment. We try to provide him with a lot of choices and positive reinforcement, but still the bedtime, and wake-up battles. So we just started being in his room at bedtime, but with our back to him(after his bedtime routine)and doing something like a crossword, or reading giving him absolutely NO attention, just our comforting presence. The battles are gone, and we sneak out after. However we dread his "Da!" or "Ma!" imperiously summoning us to the rest of the night on a cold alphabet mat wondering about spiders and chronic back pain. We haven't figured out how to stop those demands.
Did you ever find a solution? Childcalm?(I just read about it.) Feel free to e-mail me at ncstone@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
We live in married student housing, suffice it to say that a whisper in one room is clear as a bell 5 steps away in the other(postage size)room.
Thanks!
Amy and Nathan Stone
and the Toddler Tyrant-Cadell and the Tiny Tyrant-Dane |
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