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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How to stop our 2-year-old's bedtime tantrums and make her sleep through the night?
Our daughter is approaching 2 and has consistently had issues with bedtime.
At the mention of bedtime, she will regularly start crying (but still follows me upstairs to bed). In general, one of us ...
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What to do about a 4.5-year-old soiling underwear shortly before bedtime when he usually uses the toilet?
My 4.5-year-old son was well potty trained. He has only recently started to soil his pants. This always happens in the 30 minutes before bedtime, always when he is in his room playing alone. He tells ...
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How to get a 1-year-old to sleep through?
We've got a boy who is nearly a year old. He's woken practically every night. He is breastfed, and is currently eating solids very well. Down to a couple of breastfeeds a day really.
However, he ...
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How can I get involved in the parenting of my girlfriend's sister's 5-year-old who spends too much time on screens etc.?
I am a 30ish years old man, living at my girlfriend's parents place for 4 months. It's been 2 months already, 2 more to go. I don't have kids (yet, but want to).
With us is my girlfriend's sister and ...
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What to do about a 2-year-old who won't sleep without being held?
I nanny for a family whose 2-year-old refuses to sleep without being held, both at naps and night time. She has a bad gag relflex and will continuously throw up if left to cry it out. And once she ...
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Takes too long to put toddler to sleep on mattress on floor
My son is 1 year, 10 months and he is used to sleep on a mattress on a floor. At the very beginning, he was in a crib but it didn't last long. We decided to put him on a mattress mainly for safety ...
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How to enable my 2.5-year-old to read after going to bed when he shares a room with my 1-year-old?
My 2.5-year-old son likes to read. We put him down early enough that he is often awake for 30 minutes or so before falling asleep. I would like to enable him to read on his own for a bit to pass the ...
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What to do about our toddler fully regressing with sleep and acting out after we got a baby?
We have a 2.5-year-old child. Our toddler was colic for the first 6 months, then slept like a champ - seeming to make up for his past indiscretions as an infant ;)
At 2 we transitioned him to a "big ...
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How to improve our 3-year-old's sleep cycle without skipping long afternoon nap?
My 3-ear-old goes to daycare where they have the policy to not wake up the sleeping kids. Therefore she ends up taking 3 hours nap from 12-3. When she comes home around 6 pm, she would be all fresh ...
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Is my toddler's sleep pattern normal or does he sleep too much? [closed]
My 2.5-year-old son's sleep pattern has drastically changed the last couple of weeks. Now he generally goes to sleep about 10pm, sleeps through until 9am or a bit later. He is only awake for about 4 ...
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1 year old keeps waking up at 3 am
In the last month or so, our 13 month old has woken up around 3 am and been vehemently against going back to sleep. It's sort of a combination of being against being put back to bed and being very ...
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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 remove electronics and shift sleep schedule of 6-year old?
I started taking care of my grandchild when she was still 7 months old. During her first day to 6 months old she was with her father and my daughter. Sadly, their relationship didn't last. Right now, ...
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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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Is it normal for a 16-month-old to always wake up at the same time no matter what?
I have a 16-month-old daughter. I'm 5 months pregnant with her baby brother. No matter what time I put her down for bed she wakes up at 12:30 am. I've tried putting her in bed at 7 pm, 8 pm, 9 pm, 10 ...
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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 needs 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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How to sleep train an 8-week-old who sleeps through the day and is active at night?
We have an 8-week-old daughter. Our baby goes full eyes open at 10:30-11 PM and needs be walked around to calm down. She gets restless and cries the moment she is on the co-sleeper. Holding and ...
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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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Room sleeping temperature for babies in tropical climates
So the consensus online is that babies should sleep in a room with a temperature between 16 to 21 degrees.
But there are millions of babies born in hot tropical climates to families with low income, ...
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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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How do I get a 2-year-old to calm down at night to go to bed by 8:30 or 9pm?
My 2-year-old granddaughter lives with me. For the last month she is so tired and is hard to get settled down. We tried lots of things to get her to calm down before bed. She used to go to bed at 8:30 ...
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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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Should middle school students/high school students be able to choose their own bedtime? [duplicate]
Sleeping is important, but do students have the right to choose when they do so? Or should they let their parents decide the bedtime? Students above the age 12 need over 8 hours of sleep. It's ...
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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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Why do babies fight sleep and how to calm them down?
My nice of 9 months is crying to fight sleep. Why does she do that? How can one calm her down?
It's absolutely silly to watch :). She sits there and everything is all right. As soon as she falls ...
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How to make my 3-year-old go to sleep earlier?
My 3-year-old boy is having sleeping problems. He was always a late sleeper falling asleep around 9:00, but for the last couple of months he has so much energy at bedtime, running around, shouting and ...
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2-year-old needs bread to go to sleep
We seemed to have fallen into a sleep routine where my two-year-old will not go to sleep without bread. He will ask for it, and basically goes to sleep sucking it, (he starts by eating it, but there ...
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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 ...
