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AUTHOR: justhefiveofusDATE: 07/11/03 10:40pm
SUBJECT: Re: Getting five year old to sleep in own bed
IN REPLY TO: Getting five year old to sleep in own bed
AUTHOR: 1stGirl
I'm going to give you my two sense although I cant say much my son still sleeps with me, I need to get him into his own bedroom. its my own fault. Since birth I was a very nervouse mommy and daddy was nervouse to we wanted him to be in his bassinett right in ear shot of hearing him breat literally. My water bed railings were at the same height as his bassinet and that is were i put him was as close as the bassinet would go to my water bed and I slept on the side he was on. I jumped out of bed all hours if hours of the night to make sure he was ok> and when we moved I moved into a trailor and the bedroom was on one end and the mastor bdrm was all the way on the other end of the house. I didn't like this b/c I feared fire, what would happen if a fire broke out, well i wasn't about to take a chance b/c he was to little to understand to get out of the window if a fire broke out he was only 1 a little over one so he slept in my room in his crib then. Then we moved and I felt to bad to put him in his own room all by himself, I felt like I was would make him feel left out b/c when i moved i found out the first night I slept in my new place that I was pregnant, so I dont now if it was hormones or whatnot he slept in my bedroom and in his own crib in there, when my other son came along my son slept in our bed and my new baby slept in my bedroom in his bassinet and the crib my oldest boy use to use was in the nursery I made for the new baby, and so on anyways you get the point, hes always been in our room or in our bed. Now he just turned five and I am realizing he is no longer a baby, painfully true, he is growing up FAST TOO FAST :( But Reading this made me realize I need to get going with putting him in his own room, we moved again since the middle child and the new baby again was born my baby girl now the third child, I had her right before we moved this time and he we are in a three bedroom home and I have his bedroom all fixed up in his atthe time favorite charachter Monster inc. and I let him pick it out back when I was trying to get him to stay in his own room, but I am suggesting that you stay at what your doing, but dont give up. Keep bringing your child back to there own bed untill they stop,consistency will do it or should anyway. Good luck and wish me good luck as well. Take care and let me know how your doing, well given the date your probably already master it by now, let me know how it went? Take care GOD bless you and your family....
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Getting five year old to sleep in own bed
1stGirl11/05/01 07:00pm
Re: Getting five year old to sleep in own bed
kimathomenow01/10/02 08:37pm
      Re: Getting five year old to sleep in own bed
justhefiveofus07/11/03 10:42pm
Re: Getting five year old to sleep in own bed
justhefiveofus07/11/03 10:40pm
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