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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2017 11:09:19 GMT -6
Please, tell me what you do to get your preschooler to sleep during summer?
She's smart enough to know that just because it's dark in her room doesn't mean it's dark outside. She really NEEDS to go to bed around 7:30 but has been pushing it out to 8:30 or later some nights. Which means that come morning, she's a sloth and doesn't want to get out of bed. Even when she does get out of bed, she's a grumpy mess. (Or as DH texted me yesterday, a "dumpster fire.")
I am counting the days until I can pretend to be a Stark and shout WINTER IS COMING!
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Post by billyhorrible on Jun 6, 2017 13:58:10 GMT -6
Remind me again how old she is?
With my 5 year old we've talked about the whole "sun sets later in the summer" thing. So he knows that even though it's light outside, it's late. I've also promised him that when he gets big, and his brother is big, we'll do lots of fun stuff on summer nights, because it stays light. But now, it's important he gets his sleep so he can (play baseball, run races, have energy with his friends, etc. etc. etc.).
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Post by jillywilly on Jun 6, 2017 14:16:52 GMT -6
I have zero advice, but the opposite problem. My kid has been waking with the sun. It alllllllmost makes me long for winter.
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Post by danib on Jun 6, 2017 18:21:58 GMT -6
For us, he has a bed TIME, dark or light has no association with that (In the winter it gets dark as early as 5pm and in the summer it's sometimes still bright after 9pm, so we've never tied night/day to bedtime). We do have blackout curtains in his room so that the light doesn't keep him awake.
Would you consider one of those clocks that changes colour to show when it's sleep time vs when it's ok to get up? The clock showing the sleep colour might help her SEE that it's bedtime refardless of the sun.
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Post by elbowmac on Jun 6, 2017 18:55:24 GMT -6
Are blackout curtains an option?
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Post by fuzzylogic on Jun 6, 2017 19:29:25 GMT -6
Keeping the kid away from all windows 30 minutes before bed?
I honestly have no idea. We haven't run into this...yet.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2017 19:33:59 GMT -6
She's 4.
We have an okay to wake clock, she basically laughs in its face.
We've tried darkening the whole house, but our kitchen does not get dim at all.
She basically hates us.
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Post by silvermelody on Jun 6, 2017 20:41:54 GMT -6
Someone here on APTM said they had a little clock that you can set a bedtime and it rings, something about fish, her kid races to be in bed before the fish turn off?
I mentally bookmarked it bc I think it would work well for DS when we get there. Right now we just announce bedtime and there's no negotiating
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2017 5:20:58 GMT -6
Well, she read this thread apparently. Went to bed at 7:45... and has been awake since 3:30.
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Post by danib on Jun 7, 2017 5:39:17 GMT -6
Well, she read this thread apparently. Went to bed at 7:45... and has been awake since 3:30. ohhh no!!!! Does she still nap? |
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Post by billyhorrible on Jun 7, 2017 8:06:13 GMT -6
Well, she read this thread apparently. Went to bed at 7:45... and has been awake since 3:30. Baby steps |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2017 8:16:23 GMT -6
Well, she read this thread apparently. Went to bed at 7:45... and has been awake since 3:30. ohhh no!!!! Does she still nap? Occasionally. The good news is she's daycare's problem today and not mine.  |
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Post by Radley on Jun 7, 2017 9:12:03 GMT -6
We haven't had the problem yet. DS1 is four this week and hasn't mentioned the sun. But they have to be in bed by 7:30 period, I'm expecting him to object at some point though. They don't always fall asleep immediately but they are in bed.
DS2 is a morning person though and keeps waking up earlier and earlier everyday. Sigh. DS1 is just like me and will sleep the morning away if you let him.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2017 15:52:01 GMT -6
Radley, this is our first year with it being a problem, really. We had problems last year, but those were related to a drug wean, so I'm not counting them. Honestly, the bigger part of the problem is probably that the 3-year-old next door gets to stay up until 9, and DD wants to play with her. But the 3-year-old next door has live-in childcare and doesn't need to be up at a certain time, let alone up early enough to be dressed and ready to leave the house in time for two parents to get to work.
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Post by Radley on Jun 7, 2017 22:15:51 GMT -6
Radley, this is our first year with it being a problem, really. We had problems last year, but those were related to a drug wean, so I'm not counting them. Honestly, the bigger part of the problem is probably that the 3-year-old next door gets to stay up until 9, and DD wants to play with her. But the 3-year-old next door has live-in childcare and doesn't need to be up at a certain time, let alone up early enough to be dressed and ready to leave the house in time for two parents to get to work. Oh yeah. I can see that. A and R are pretty much always in bed by 7:30 except in cases of dinner invites or such, but H's nephew does not, nor has he ever, had a bedtime, so anytime he visits A wants to stay up late and play with him. And they almost always stay until bedtime because none of them go to bed anywhere near the time we do. So we end up just starting bedtime routine and they get the hint. And I'm not trying to diss their bed time style, everyone does it differently, but it definitely irritates A to have to get ready for bed when his cousin is still at our house. I can only imagine how difficult it would be if any of our neighbors had children. |
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Post by seamonster on Jun 7, 2017 22:16:31 GMT -6
I need to install a blackout curtain, but putting the bedroom light on a dimmer switch can help. Making it dimmer as you go about getting ready for bed can help with the signal that it's bedtime.
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Post by pinkflamingo on Jun 7, 2017 22:31:52 GMT -6
We try to stick to the same routine as usual. Bath/shower about 45 min before bedtime, watch a short show, brush teeth, book, bed. We use black out curtains and they have to stay in their rooms into their timer light comes on in the morning.
We remind them that if they don't get enough sleep, then they won't be able to *insert activity here*. There's lots of fun summer stuff they don't want to miss out on so we haven't had too much of an issue.
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Post by lazyReader on Jun 8, 2017 21:50:01 GMT -6
+1 to bedtime not associated with light or dark. I'm pretty sure it won't be dark here til close to 10pm. And it's light near 4am.
We don't use blackout curtains.
We also try to say that when she wakes, she can read a book until it's okay to get out of bed.
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