Move to toddler bed

[Vijac]

We just moved my son to his toddler bed as he started climbing out of his cot (during the day but didn't want to take the risk of him doing it at night). It seems to have gone ok apart from for the two days since he has woken up much earlier that usual, got out of bed and come to find us. Any tips to prevent this and keep him sleeping?

A baby gate on his bedroom? I used a baby gate to keep my dc in their rooms at night as i didn't want the risk of them falling down the stairs.
If he comes to the gate calmy tuck him back into bed.

I was just going to say what pumpkin said.

In the evening if he gets out of bed we generally ignore him (to make it clear he is NOT crying, distressed or upset in any way) and he takes himself back to bed. We found that the rapid return thing turned it into a game and he was up until all hours. The stair gate means he can't get out so is therefore nor able to roam about upstairs.

We put blackout blinds and curtains up so his room was dark on a morning meaning the sunlight doesn't wake him.

He has toys in his room so that if he is awake, and it's waking hours, but I've been too busy with dd to get him up he can just go play. In fact he plays in his room during the day sometimes anyway, if I'm busy with household chores and don't want 'help'.

Watching this with interest

We moved DD into a toddler bed due to her climbing out of the cot but she would cry and scream for over an hour. We had the baby gate across the door also but this just made her worse. In the end, it was just too stressful so we moved her bed into our room as we were going on holiday anyway but we want to move her back into her own room very soon. Any tips also much appreciated

I can only speak from experience with ds, but these are the things that worked for him:
Had the new bed in his room for a while before switching him over. We kept talking about it being his big-boy bed that didn't have bars on. At nap time and other times during the day, and before bed, we'd sit on the toddler bed for cuddles and story. He even fell asleep on it a couple of times.

Put the cot bed mattress and sheets onto the new bed so the smell was the same. Moved the room around so that his new bed, when he eventually switched, was in the same place as his cot used to be.

Found some Fireman Sam sheets, a Fireman Sam cushion and some Fireman Sam PJs (he's mad on him lol) a few weeks after the switch so that he wanted to sleep in there and was excited to go to bed.

Other than that I have no suggestions, sorry. Ds is a very laid back little boy who doesn't usually fuss (dd is the fussy one!)