Can you help him sleep?
Jack has decided 5:45 a.m. is his new wake-up time. I am slowly losing my mind as I do not want this to be my new wake-up time. Emmie most definitely does not want this to be her new wake-up time, as she likes to sleep until 8. If I leave him howling in his room in an effort to get him to go back to sleep (haha! as if!) then he wakes her up. And two grumpy children is too many to deal with before 7 a.m.
Six months ago, Jack was routinely sleeping until 8:15 a.m. Then he suddenly became a 6:45er about three months ago. We have had a few sporadic 7:15s in there, but this week he has taken in to a new low.
I have read that sleep goes to shit around 3.5 years old, and we're on the cusp of 3.5 now. Please, please tell me there is a solution. Because the clock trick I was so proud of a few weeks ago? No longer means anything. He could care less about waiting until the clock says 7 to come out.
Help?
Six months ago, Jack was routinely sleeping until 8:15 a.m. Then he suddenly became a 6:45er about three months ago. We have had a few sporadic 7:15s in there, but this week he has taken in to a new low.
I have read that sleep goes to shit around 3.5 years old, and we're on the cusp of 3.5 now. Please, please tell me there is a solution. Because the clock trick I was so proud of a few weeks ago? No longer means anything. He could care less about waiting until the clock says 7 to come out.
Help?
posted by Amy at
11:23 PM
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The ONLY thing that stopped my 3 y/o's 5:30 wake up time was the elimination of naps. Sucks during the day, but is delightful in the morning.
5:30a ugh! hopefully it's a phase. I would also agree with Sarah, either eliminate the nap, or make sure it's not too late in the day when he goes down.
Ugh, that's early! I have no advice because I pretty much have no control over my own kid's wake-up times. :) The boy who complains about a 6:15 wake-up on weekdays is all bright and spry at 6:00 on weekend mornings. Huh?!
Maybe a slightly shorter nap, earlier in the day? Or maybe a half hour later bedtime? Or blackout curtains in his room? Good luck!
is he waking up cause he's hungry? cause we get that "im hun-ga-ry" yell from his bed every morning if we dont give adam (3.5) a bedtime snack of something filling (typicall a yogurt)right before bed. he goes to sleep around 6:45, and with a bedtime snack sleep till right around 6:30/6:45ish, which on weekdays is fine by me.
I don't have much advice for helping him sleep later (maybe a liter bedtime, that never worked for us, but you never know), however when my daughter would wake up earlier than was comfortable for me, I would put on the tv super low, tell her she had to be quiet because everyone else was sleeping, and go back to sleep ont the couch. terrible parenting no doubt, but it did usually get me a little more rest if not outright sleep. The other option is to remind everyone you are pregnant and therefore needs lots of rest, and make your husband get up with him. haha! good luck!
We do what Kate does--if E gets up too early, I throw on Noggin. It might be bad parenting, but it's badness pales in comparison to what type of parenting the rest of the day will see if I don't get more sleep.
OMG... hahahah. I DIDN'T even read this before we had the conversation about the 7 on the clock tonight!
Threats. I'd go with that!
Very fun tonight! : )
(And I already ate my leftover cheesecake!)
So I guess if he won't wait until the clock says 7 he wouldn't wait for a nightlight plugged into a timer to turn on at 7? And he couldn't get up until it came on?
This is the speech that my friend gave her son: "Look, from now on you have a choice: stay in your room and play quietly until 8 or get out of your room and stay in time out until 8. You do NOT get to disrupt everyone just because you're up." Took a couple of days of 1-hour+ time outs, but now he gets up, goes to the bathroom, and goes back to his room to play. Since he wasn't taking naps anyway, she had to go nuclear. She figured a couple of days of suffering was better than facing child protective services after another week of 5:00 mornings. Good luck!
I hope he didn't wake up that early today! My son slept until 9am--I'll consider it payment for shrieking during my book signing.
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