Room sharing - a FECKING nightmare!!

[SmallShips]

DS 3.10 and DD 23mo have been sharing for a week now, they are driving me mad! Running around like maniacs, playing, yelling and laughing for HOURS after I put them to bed and then waking up really early and yelling "MUMMY" until I get up.

I expected this, it being a new experience and all that but I'm not sure how to deal with it. I've not been very consistent TBH, I either ignore them, go in put them back to bed without any fuss or go in yelling and threatening them with separate rooms, no treats etc.

So what do I do? I've ended up putting DS back into the spare bedroom/new babies room tonight, they both fell straight to sleep after I did this.

Help.

Hi we have different bed times. The two girls share and a boy in his own room.
Youngest (11 months) goes at 5:45pm (they get up at 6 so this is about right for her).
next goes up at 6:30 and the oldest at 7:00.

This way the next child up is asleep before they go and there is nothing to keep them awake. Sometimes they moan that they want to stay up but we just ignore them and it works pretty well !

I tried staggered bed times, it worked once and then DS started waking up DD. Might give it another go tomorrow though. I'm probably expecting too much one week in!

It does take time, but they do settle down. When ours are playing up - usually it is one being naughtier than the other. So we let the good one into our bed as a treat, and the naughtier child has to sleep in their bed alone. As the girls hate sleeping in their bed alone, and love going to sleep in our bed, this works as a punishment as they get upset that they are not allowed to sleep in our bed, if that makes any sense at all. It works for us though!