I will try and keep this brief !
For the last few weeks we have had trouble getting dd to sleep at night, she is 4 1/2, used to go to bed at 8 fine and wouldn't see her until the morning, however she now refuses to go, lots of crying, stalling etc, then waking up again in the night and climbing in with me with dh ending up on the sofa.
She did have a few bad dreams to start off and we have reassured her, sat with her,talked over fears etc, but now when she goes to bed she is not saying she is scared but I want to sleep in your bed. Me and DH both work full time so we need our sleep, feel shattered as this has been going on for a few weeks, also the time she is settling down it is nearer 9.00 that she goes to sleep so we are only getting a short period of time to ourselves before we are in bed.
I have tried reward charts with limited success, however I have mentioned to her that if we don't see an improvement she will not be going out with my db this week, this is the only thing that I can think that she will feel like she is really missing out on, that will not impact on her younger brother( as he doesn't go). I mentioned this to my db to give him warning and he accused me of being a bit harsh and it was only a phase she was going through. (he hasn't got any dc and he moans when she sleeps over and gets him up at 7.15 on a Saturday morning.)
So am I being unreasonable to stop her going ?
If the consensus is that I am, I will be hotfotting it over to parenting !!
Would also like to add that she probably will go as she was good last night, however would like other opinions as my db has made me feel like the wicked witch of the west !!
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runforthesun · 25/10/2012 13:38
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