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Young siblings sharing a room

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Newburygirl · 05/03/2007 23:21

I have 2 little girls: 2yrs and 8 months and a 10 month old. The girls have to share a bedroom as we only have 2 rooms upstairs and 2 rooms downstairs. Trouble is that the older one has started to deliberately wake her sister during the night in order to get our attention and get us into her bedroom. We don't want to go in there and give her the attention but we cannot leave her little sister in there being unfairly picked on. Does anyeon else have this arrangement and if so has anyone got any advice? The room is fairly small so we can't divide it in anyway. The only solution we have come up with is to put the 10month old in with us until she is older and can defend herself better. The other thing we could do is to move downstairs and the girls stay upstairs. Anyone else experienced this sharing a room thing???

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colditz · 05/03/2007 23:23

we have this situation. I solved it with toys in bed - and threats of toy removal. If he woke his brother, He was told if he woke him again, I would take the toy away, and he would not get it back for LOTS OF DAYS! It does work, I very very rarely have to take the toy.

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Aefondkiss · 05/03/2007 23:25

my dd and ds share a room, but started doing so after they were a yr old.

if you are going to take a child out of the room to stop the behaviour take the 10 month old out, your older dd might see getting into your room as a reward?

we had the travel bed in our room to start with, so we could remove a child when needed

do they go to bed at the same time?

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hillary · 05/03/2007 23:29

My dd's are roughtly the same ages as yours and they have just started sharing a room, I must say i'm rather strict with bedtime, if my dd was to wake her sister in the middle of the night I would get very cross and shout. She did used to get up in the middle of the night and venture around the house, getting milk from the fridge and turning on the tv downstairs etc.. (very independant), I did have to let her know it wasn't acceptable and dangerous, she knows I mean business when I raise my voice.

I'd try to nip it in the bud now before it becomes a habbit.

Good luck

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Newburygirl · 06/03/2007 20:47

Thanks folks! We are lucky at the moment in that we areborrowing a friend's cot but she is due to give birth next month and will need it back soon.