We have resigned ourselves to the fact that DD2 currently needs very little sleep. She gave up daytime sleep age 2, and since then has been fine on 9-10h. Problem is, DD1 (5y) needs about 11h - she goes to bed about 7.30pm. We always put them both down at the same time, but DD2 (who has often been up since 5.30am) then spends about an hour coming out of her room again and again and again and again .... By this point of the evening I really need some 'me time' and can no longer have her following me around.
Have tried 'rapid return', door shutting, star charts, chocolate etc. She just doesn't yet have enough self-control to bear any consequences in mind when she gets the impulse to jump out of bed. Can't use a stairgate as she just yells the place down and wakes DD1 (and the neighbours!).
The only time she's slept ok was in the holidays when she slept about 8.30-6.30ish. I'd be quite happy to have her quietly occupying herself or even watching TV till 8.30 (so I can get on with my stuff), but there is no way DD1 would go to bed an hour earlier knowing her little sister is allowed to stay up.
DD1 used to wake early but got into the habit of looking at books etc on her own till it was time to get up. DD2 just can't be persuaded to do this. She is obsessed with drawing but if I leave pencils in her room she'll draw in her story books/on the wall!
I really have resigned myself to her sleeping pattern for now, just need some coping strategies really ...
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3.5yo only needs 9h sleep. What to do with her in the mornings/evenings?
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franch · 29/04/2009 12:01
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