Early morning waking when siblings share a room

[glamourbadger]

Does anyone have advice on how they deal with this? My twins (3) share a room. DT1 is up with the lark (sometimes as early as 5:30am) but DT2 needs a lot more sleep (on her own she will sleep till around 7:30am).

DT1 has a bunny clock and a bedside light and is very good, she turns on her light and reads/plays in bed until around 7am. This would be fine if she had a room to herself but every morning she wakes DT2 with her humming and chattering. Poor DT2 is knackered by tea time, literally falling asleep into her pasta! She has long given up a daytime sleep.

Has anyone found a way of dealing with this?

[mrsdisorganised]

No....Will watch for any advice though!
My 4 share a room, dd1 is 8 and dd4 is 17 months, she wakes every morning at 6am (if we're lucky!) shouting all the girls names until she gets an answer Have given her a heap of toys and books tonight in the hope they catch her eye first! Good luck!

[nowwearefour]

we have a similar situation. my only solution is to get dd2 up when she wakes up and leave dd1 asleep. it's a killer for me though but does give dd1 the sleep she needs...

[dizzydixies]

oh I have this at the moment too with DD1 getting up and either coming through to us or wakening up her sister - we've had a chat and hopefully that will help

could you pick out a book the night before and tell her if she is awake before everyone else she's to sit and read that quietly?

if someone cracks this please let me know!!

[ShannaraTiger]

glamourbadger we get the dc who wakes up first up before they wake the other up. We are lucky (I think) they usualy come and wake us up rather than each other.

[HaventSleptForAYear]

Why is she waking so early?

Can you put her to bed later?

Our 2 (4 and 2) share a room and go to bed at the same time but DS1 is knackered and goes to sleep straightaway and then DS2 usually creeps back downstairs for a play.

DS2 ends up going to bed later but then they wake at similar-ish times (although DS2 usually comes in for a snuggle when he wakes.

[fridayschild]

with shannara: the child who wakes first is trained to come in to my bed where in theory he lies quiet and still till morning. In practice it tends to be quiet or still...

[luckylady74]

We have stopped the ealy waking one of twins (4yrs) from shouting for us when he wakes and now he just comes in to us without waking his sister.
I think you just have to accept that you get up with them (at weekends I put the tv on in my bedroom and go back to sleep under the duvet)and leave the other to sleep.
Our rule is before 6 you go back to bed in silence and after that I try and remember how much sleep they've had and if they need to stay in bed.
I am a firm believer in black out blinds at night and huge amounts of out door play in the day by the way!