Ds2 is 2.5 and a handful. He is speech delayed and has always had a temper (but I wouldn’t change him for the world) he has always been a shit sleeper and in desperation he’s ended up sleeping in our bed. Dh has been sleeping in the spare room this has been going on since last summer. He’s being better recently and we are all sick of the bedtime drama so decided he’s going in his own room. He was in the little nursery room but we decorated the spare room in his fave thing and made a fuss of it. We have kept the double bed in there as he’s used to sleeping in a double now and the toddler bed is a deffo no go.
Anyway, I’ve managed to get him to sleep in his new room. He wasn’t happy and cried for about 40 mins but I payed next to him like normal and he slept. The thing is he wakes up in the night to check in next to him and then falls back asleep: he doesn’t do it every night but sometimes, I reckon he will do it tonight because he went to bed upset. Do I sleep in his new room with him and lull him into a false sense of security I will be there with him or go cold turkey and leave him in there just going in to shush him when he wakes. He will kick right off.
I realise this is a lot of faff for a toddler but the child has the will of steel and is amazingly headstrong. I would of laughed at you for saying this about a child when I only had Ds1 but yea, ds2 does not conform if he doesn’t want to