Re: from cot to bed with a holiday in between

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Thanks will move the gate from top of stairs to DS's bedroom and give

the stars a go as he has just realised that real stars live in the

sky, so it should work well.

Kirsten

Re: from cot to bed with a holiday in between

> Kirsten, my DS used to do just this after every holiday: he'd appear

on the

> stairs and sit there for hours, calling us. My attitude was, fine -

let him

> go to sleep on the stairs: it feels like a self-curing habit, to me!

But DH

> wasn't happy about him falling down the stairs in his sleep (not

that

> Mummy's a hard b*tch, or anything!)

>

> The first time it happened, we ended up putting a baby gate up at

his

> bedroom door so that, while he can get out of bed as much as he

likes, he

> can't escape his room. That makes it easier for us to ignore his

calling

> once we know he doesn't actually *need* anything. I tend to find

that a

> couple of nights of steely resolve gets us through, and then he goes

back to

> bed OK.

>

> He's done it again this summer, though, and steely resolve hasn't

been

> steely enough - not even fortified by glasses of wine and soothing

music on

> the CD player! But this year, he's very taken with star charts, and

is

> saving up for 5 stars to get a bob the builder train for his brio

set. One

> star = one peaceful evening. It's worked a treat for a week, when

he was

> saving for a fireman's helmet and I reckoned two weeks and two

treats and

> we'd have it cracked. However, the fireman's helmet was only 3

stars, and

> now we're up to 3 for the B the B train and he keeps appearing at

his gate

> at more or less half hourly intervals and yelling " Mummy!! I hab

DONE peace

> and quiet, now!! " B the B - can he fix it? Apparently not!

>

> So, try baby gates, and try star charts - but don't aim higher than

3

> stars!!

>

> HTH

>

> Vicki Portman

>

> http://www.plushpants.co.uk

>

> >. tonight he went to bed at 6pm as he was very tired

> > and asked to go to bed, and finally went to sleep at 9pm after

hours

> > of asking for wee's, poo's, milk, mummy etc etc etc.

> > Anyone got any quick fixes for this? I was ready to start

shouting

> > tonight, but kept my patience as we have had a grizzly day

already.

>

>

>

>

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Vicki wrote:

> Toys R Us, £9.95 - it's actually Bob and Dizzy or one of the other

> machines, to run on brio track.>>>>>>>.

Where abouts would I find it? Would it be with the BtheB bits?

Our Toys R Us don't sell Brio.

Trisha

SAHM to 3 boys

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> It is also a bit sad when they ask for the cot back!:-(

DD's cot converts into a bed, so the most sensible solution would be

to take the sides off her cot one day. But I'm having visions of a

terrified, sad toddler thinking I have destroyed her cot - so haven't

had the heart to do this...

Instead I am kind of hoping to get DD a new bed and leave the cot in

the same room (it'll be a bit crammed in there, but it doesn't really

matter) so she could have a choice - and then I thought she might

slowly graduate towards a bed. We shall see!

I am being a bit too softhearted here... It's a shame to waste the

cotbed I suppose, but little brother can always inherit it as he's in

a ramshackle borrowed old thing at the moment anyway. Not sure I'll

have the heart to take the sides off for him either though, so at

this point not quite sure why we got a 'cotbed' at all!

Karina