aaargh!!!!! help toddler got out of bed all night!Is it behaviour or was she still ill?

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I am exhausted and my first words to dh were, Iam unsure about this one need to MN it this morning so here goes.DD2 (3YO)got out of bed for the past week all the time, we have been leaving landing light on for past few months due to night terrors and this helped,she has now realised that she can see and comes in to us repeatedly throughout the night.It doesn't help that with DS1 (8 months) I allow this so sometimes he is in there when she comes in-i,e good for one good for another type thing.I can get the baby in his cot most of the time now and was getting better sleep until ds2 decides to do this.We were playing with a torch just before bed I know, this I have decided was silly,secondly she has just recovered from sickness so could need me, I can't help but think it is just bad behaviour though as we saw a couple of other children yesterday who were being dare I say the N word (Naughty!) this seemed to have rubbed off.Question- what should we do tonight-my plan is -no torch games before bed-positive praise where possible throughout the day, baby in cot and a little story and 'please help mummy tonight (Possible sticker reward in the morning) for staying in bed_Any other ideas/suggestions welcome-I guess I am struggling to see the difference between if she is just insecure or downright monkey! THanks guys

We had exactly the same problem before Christmas, started with DS being ill and then carried on once he's recovered. I too don't like to leave him just in case he is frightened or feeling unwell.

I had to keep putting him back in bed and then sitting by the bed (without speaking until he'd dropped back off again/ He did seem to always wake up again as soon as I reached the door but eventually he got bored and fell asleep.

We essentially have to bore him to death to get him to go to sleep by making it total darkness. He went through a phase of being frightened of wolves and monsters but, rather than leave the lights on, we kept reinforcing that these were only pretend and in stories; that there was nothing to be frightened of. Not sure if that would work with actual nigth terrors though,

It took about a week of being absolutely shattered (and sitting on a freezing cold floor) but we are now back to sleeping through the night.

Good luck.

THanks we now have a day of shattered toddler-great!I know we will crack it though thanks for post!

i hope someone can help me? my daughter is just turned 2 and usually sleeps all night, but lately she has been waking up and shouting for me. at first i thought she may be ill but as soon as i let her lay in my bed she stops shouting, but she doesn't go to sleep so i end up putting her back in her cot, and then the shouting starts all over again. I'm not sure what to do and am convinced my neighbours hate me cos of all the shouting, help!