Ugh. Infant is now sleep trained and goes 9 - 10 hours straight at night. But, toddler has now decided that he will not sleep in his bed and wants to take over an hour per night to fall asleep on his floor, with one of us laying next to him.
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Last night I got him to sleep in the spare bed with me, tried to transfer him to his bed at 1:30am, he woke up, took until almost 4am to get him to sleep again. Argh.
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Got him to sleep in his own bed the last two nights, but took 1 - 2 hours each time. Ugh. Working on a reward system, where he gets a treat the next day if he sleeps in his bed at night. Will start shifting it to "treat if in bed before 9pm" when I can, to save my sanity.
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Everything about that rubs me the wrong way, but I know exactly how obnoxious it is when people butt in on your parenting, so let's let it lie.
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I don't plan to keep the reward system for any longer than I have too. I'd rather not do it.
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I wasn't planning to elaborate, but, well: I need him sleeping well and early enough bc on days I go to work I drop him off at daycare at 7am. My wife has PTSD and periodically is afraid she's just going to drop dead for no reason, so I'm home a lot. I'm 5 - 6 days/week I'm ...
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