Questions tagged [bedtime]
Getting kids ready for bed, and making them stay there. See the "sleep" tag for questions on issues while they're asleep.
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6-year-old child taking about an hour and a half to get to sleep
When we put our 6-year-old child to bed, he can take between 45 and 90 minutes to get to sleep, if we leave and don't lie with him. If we do, it's 20 to 30 minutes. His 4-year-old brother, who sleeps ...
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Shall I be worried about my 6-year-old girl still sleeping with us from time to time?
My six-year-old younger daughter still sleeps with us from time to time at the early morning hours.
She gets to sleep in her own bed each and every evening (with the exception of some rare cases, ...
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How to make an 11-month-old, who wakes up multiple times at bedtime, sleep at night?
We have an 11-month-old infant. H has never been a good sleeper. We have tried everything and nothing has worked.
Right now, we put him in bed around 7:30PM (after bedtime routine) he typically ...
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What can I as a teenager do about my insanely strict parents?
Before I start this, I just want to let everyone know that even though my parents can be completely clueless about parenting at times, I still love them very much, so don't go commenting that I'm "...
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Bedtime for 12-13 year old girl
My 12-13 daughter currently goes to bed at 9:00 PM but lately she's been asking to go to bed at a later time, like 9:30 or 10:00 PM.
I know she'll be starting high school soon and might need a later ...
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Bed time stories for a 6 year old boy
So I have a 5 year old boy, turning 6 in 2 months.
We've been reading Harry Potter as bed time stories, and it has been great. We've gotten to book 5 now and it has started to be more grown up, I ...
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If you can't spoil a newborn, when “can” you spoil a baby?
So I heard you cannot spoil a newborn. While I don't take it 100% at face value I do believe attending her need is more important than worrying about spoiling her.
Now the question is, when can a ...
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Strategies for 2-year-olds who play in bed instead of relaxing
For most of his life our toddler had no issue settling down to sleep on his own (in fact leaving him alone in a crib was the only way, as an infant, we could get him to sleep, and it worked reliably; ...
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What to do about my almost 3-year-old son now going late to bed and wanting us to stay in his room with him?
My 2 years and 9 months old son has never been the best sleeper, but we don't know what to do anymore. He used to go to bed without a hitch at 8:30 pm and sometimes get up at 2-3 am or sleep until 5:...
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Fastest way back on schedule for a child that is past the age to nap
Recently due to a pretty minor illness (that was sleep disrupting) I have a kid that is going to bed excessively early but then rising excessively early. So what I need him to do is to stay awake ...
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5-month-old breast-fed baby is regressing on her sleeping pattern after given formula milk
I have been sharing about my baby's sleep problem 2 months ago, but now things have taken a worse turn from what I can tell.
My baby is now 5 months old. We feel that it's time to reduce the ...
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What are the non stimulating games that can be played before bedtime to keep the kid engaged?
Kid is 4 year old. I want her to feel sleepy before bedtime so that it becomes easy for us to put her to bed. Problem is if I do not engage her in some non-stimulating activity, she keeps on jumping ...
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Toddler sleeping with head covered
My son is 21 months. He can sleep with and without blankets no problem. But when he has any blankets I usually allow multiple hospital like baby blankets. If he isn't snuggling to them then they are ...
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Is it too late to read for my baby?
We have created a bad habit of our baby watching TV at a very young age. He is now turning 1 this month and he starts to babble on some words. I am a first time mother and I have been anxious about ...
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How can we get our son to stop sleeping in our bed?
My son is 2 years old and he sleeps with us in our bed. We have tried every possible way of getting him to leave our bed at night, and I'm getting nervous about him growing out of it. My wife and I no ...
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Can I put my infant to sleep downstairs and then move him in the crib?
When bedtime is getting near, at about 7pm, for our 6 week old baby, can we keep him downstairs with us (with conversation and regular lighting), swaddled and rocking until he goes into a deep sleep, ...
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Child's sleep schedule vs Parents'
I'm trying to learn the do's and dont's of parenting for when my baby comes along, by watching other parents. I'm able to learn a lesson or form a theory on most things except this one area:
The baby ...
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Why is my 9 month old not sleeping through the night?
My son would sleep 10 to 12 hrs every night from the time he was about 3 months old. All the sudden he's waking almost every hour. It's worse than when he was an infant. Also would like to know if ...
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How to read to a 4-year old and a 2-year old at the same time
I often have to do the bedtime routine for our two children on my own (they go to bed at the same time). They each choose a book and I read to them together, but the older (4 years) frequently ...
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My 6 year old is terrified of monsters is this normal?
Sammy has always been scared of monsters ever since he was around 2, but now his imagination of creating this monster is getting out of control. He rarely sleeps in his own bed, he has to sleep with ...
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How to get 3 1/2 year old twin boys to go potty before bed
We have 3 1/2 year old twin boys. One is potty trained completely except for overnight. The other is much more resistant and taking much longer to potty train during the day. The main scenario I need ...
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How can I get my 2.5 year old to go to sleep without me?
She used to be fine going to sleep by herself. Then around Thanksgiving, nothing changed mind you, she began refusing to sleep unless my husband or I was in the room. We have tried changing her ...
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Toddler drinking a lot before/during night, too much for one diaper
Our toddler is about 16 months old now, but the situation I’ll describe hasn’t changed much throughout the past half year.
He won’t go to sleep at night (around 19:00) without having had his bottle ...
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How to read one book to two children on different levels at the same time
We have 3 children so they outnumber us. Part of our bedtime routine involves book time. Once upon a time, this meant Mr. Dad reads to one kid and Mrs. Mom reads to the other. That's not really an ...
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Preparing toddlers to sleep in a hotel room
My two toddlers love to play together. At bedtime, when we have them together for the quiet part of bedtime (pajamas, story, lullabies), they wind up bouncing off the walls. And the bed, each other, ...
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My 5-year-old son seems to lack in comprehension [closed]
My husband and I have 7 children ages 24, 18, 12, 12 (adopted niece), 5, 3, 2 (adopted niece). All of our biological children who are school aged and beyond are well above average in school except ...
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How young is too young to switch to a toddler bed?
I have a (almost) 20mo daughter who currently sleeps well in her crib. There is a futon in her room that one of us uses frequently when she wants someone close by to sleep or needs help getting to ...
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I have just watched my 22 month old dive head first over the gate on her bedroom 5 times after putting her to back to bed 50-60 times
I'm not concerned about the fact she physically hurts herself by jumping the gate, she is as tough as they come. She screams so loud every time I walk down the stairs and is up the gate within ...
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Is there a “better” time for parental absence?
I'm wondering if there is any research about if there are better, or at least "not so bad" times of a child's development for a father to less available. (Not completely absent, but time would be ...
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One parent and two children at bedtime
Our personal situation is two boys, ages four and a half and two and a half, although I imagine answers to this question could be generalized.
Bedtime in our home is usually between 6:30 - 8:00, and ...
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Transition 2 year old to big bed
So my wife and I got our 2 year old daughter her own bed because we moved the crib to new/future baby boys room. We've found that trying to get her to go to sleep is MUCH more difficult than we ...
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10 year old refuses to go to bed
Our 10 year old stepdaughter has trouble going to bed at night.
She refuses to go to bed, and fights us very hard, to the point where our only hope of her going to bed is to physically pick her up and ...
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How do I help my elder child's sleep not to be disrupted by her sister?
We have two daughters; one is 2 years old and the other was born a week ago. Right now, daughter 2 is sleeping a lot and doesn't cry much, but if my experience of the first was anything to go by, that ...
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Almost 4 year old does not want to go to bed at night
We have our night time routine but it has stopped working. She refuses to go to sleep. We ask her to stay in bed she'll squirm and walk her feet up the wall. She seems full of energy. She also has a 2 ...
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How do you get your kid to lay in the crib?
My son refuses to lay down in the crib and drink from his bottle before going to sleep.
He gets back up, and I put him back down; but he never gives up. How do we get him to sleep in the crib and ...
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Infant has trouble falling asleep
My son is 6 months old and falls asleep to the movement of his swing. When we put him down to sleep, he gets super cranky and throws a fit (I think).
When my husband tells him no, our son cries hard ...
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Why does my toddler cry when I try to put her down for bed, but not when my wife does it?
So my 2 year old is undeniably a Daddy's girl. She's always clingy when I'm home and only wants Daddy when Daddy is around. At bed time we have a routine that we follow before putting her down, but ...
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Toddler cries when bedtime comes
Our girl is 1 yo, and used to go to sleep without much problem at night.
However, for the last week, it's become quite difficult.
Here is how it goes :
when bedtime comes, we put her as usual in her ...
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15 month old - developmental activities? Dealing with night terrors? [closed]
My daughter is almost 15 months old. Are there things i could work on her with? Cleaning? Talking? Potty training? Anything else along these lines that I could start working on with her? And any ...
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Preparing quality bedtime stories
When I was a child I enjoyed my mom's bedtime stories so much, and even now I can still remember some of them. Now it's my turn to pass such a wonderful experience down to my daughter. However I am ...
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My 12-month-old baby wakes up at 5 a.m. every morning. What should I do?
My 12-month-old baby wakes up at 5 a.m. every morning.
I tried to feed him a bit more before bedtime and get him to sleep later, but it doesn't work..
What should I do?
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7 year old demands to go to sleep at 5:00 pm
My 7 year old son (and his brother, 5 sometimes) in winter generally demands to go to bed as soon as the sun goes down. We really wish he would stay up to 6:30-7:00 or so because when he goes to bed ...
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6-year-old bed wetting
It seems that most questions on this site about bed wetting involve toddlers. My 6-year-old daughter (almost 7) still wets the bed almost every night. After she was potty trained (a long, difficult ...
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7-year-old can't sleep
What has worked for you to get your small child to sleep at bedtime? My daughter is 7, bedtime is 8:30. It's currently 11:10 and she is still calling because she can't sleep. We've counted sheep and I ...
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Establishing bed time routines?
When is it best to start establishing bed time routines?
I.e. Bath time? Reading a book? etc?
I've read Save our Sleep, which mentions its best to do it from early on, but i've had doctors tell me ...
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Move into own room at the same time as sleep training?
Our 5 month old currently sleeps in her cot in our bedroom. We've taken one of the sides off, and the cot is right next to the the bed to make it easier for nighttime feeds, which my wife does lying ...
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Is a Set Bedtime Appropriate for Teens?
For teens, in this case a rising Junior in High School, is it appropriate to set a bedtime for him of 10PM? How does this compare with the majority of teens?
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Help! My 7 year old won't go to bed early, or get up early
This is a struggle every night, and every morning.
We start around 7:30-8:00 PM..."shower time" and the struggle starts. She's got school the next morning and I'm trying to get her showered, and ...
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my daughter learned how to open doors-now refuses to nap/stay in her room-ideas?
My daughter used to go to sleep nicely. Sometimes, such as when she is overtired, she cries herself to sleep. But this week she learned how to open doors. It is wonderful in terms of development - but ...
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How can I help a preschooler who refuses to sleep?
I've got a preschooler that plainly refuses to sleep most evenings. He gets up around 07:15, in time for kindergarten, does not nap during the day, and is visibly tired by the evening. His usual ...
