My 3 year old went into a bed a few weeks ago and has been waking up ridiculously early (anywhere between 4 and 5am) and just trashing his room, until he gets bored and starts banging on the walls or rattling the gate to wake us up. We didn’t know whether this was coincidence with turning 3 and his naps are now very up and down (some days he’ll sleep for 2 hours, other days he’ll refuse) but it doesn’t matter if he’s in bed asleep for 7.30 and we’ve also tried putting him to bed a bit later around 8.30-9, he’s still up stupidly early.
I’m feeling terribly sorry for his older brother who’s 6, he LOVES his sleep and we generally used to have to wake him up most mornings. Now he’s complaining that his brother is waking him up (their rooms are next to eachother) so he’s losing out on up to 3 hours of sleep each morning and is coming home exhausted from school.
Has anyone gone through this stage? Is there anything I can do to stop him waking so early and making an absolute racket in the process ? Believe me when I’ve tried various briberies/threatening methods in terms of taking his toys/dummy away but he just could not care less.
He has blackout blinds but also has a nightlight on which I think could be a hindrance but we’ve tried without that and he’s been up in the night crying saying it’s too dark.
We’re all pretty exhausted 😞