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Need help with toddler waking
So A likes to wake up early and come into our bed. Sometimes she is up as early as 3am and others it is later than that. She comes right into our bed and goes right back to sleep... usually. I've tried bringing her back to her room, but she throws a fit, and in that sleep haze we've just let her come into our bed.
We want to stop this!
I remembered someone posted about that sun thing on the wall (good night light?) that is light up as a moon and then lights up as a sun when they child can get up, but DH does not like that idea b/c we don't currently use a night light with her.
Do you have any ideas what we can use that is along the same concept- You can come out of your room when X. When she comes in around 6am or so, she'll say "the sun is out" but we really want her to sleep longer and in her room.
Help me ladies!
Re: Need help with toddler waking
I did not end up buying the good nite light since my little trick worked.
I got a cheap digital clock, made a huge sign that I put under it with the time I would let her get out of her room (6:30) I showed her what it looked like and that they matched. It took about a week or so and then she would say "my clock says six, three, zero mom..I can get out?" so cute!
Anyway, that is what I did and it worked. Sometimes we still have to remind her to look at the clock but most of them time she does this on her own. She also uses it to match the numbers up when quiet time is over as well (12-1)
We have friends who did something similar to this. They have a cheap digital clock with big numbers, then put black electrical tape over every part except "7:00"... not sure if that makes sense, but basically she can't get up unless she sees that it says 7.