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Any tips on how to get two small children to get used to sharing a bedroom?

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Pennies · 06/02/2009 20:08

My two usually sleep in their own rooms but tonight they're in mine (various reasons, one of which being that we're going to a hotel soon and they'll be sharing a room and I want them to get used to it). Anyway last night it took an hour and a half for them to settle (and I did get angry with them) and tonight it's an hour now and they're still hugely excited about it.

Obviously the novelty of sharing / ready beds etc is the catalyst, but any tips on how to get them to be less bonkers about it.

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Bink · 06/02/2009 20:11

They'll still be bonkers about it in the hotel even if they've had a practice before home, because home is home and the hotel is HOTEL!!!

The only solution we have is get them really really worn out (lots of exercise), dinner not too close to bedtime, and if you've got one that falls asleep more readily than the other (which is most convenient if it's the younger one, like us), then stagger bedtimes so that dozier one has settled before whizzier one joins them.

foxinsocks · 06/02/2009 20:17

yes totally agree with bink

no point practising for the hotel. They will be up and down like a fiddler's arm and will end up going to bed the same time as you

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CherryChoc · 07/02/2009 12:21

My sister and I are 3 years apart and since we were tiny, up until our teenage years, we used to chatter and play late into the night if we weren't discouraged! So I would be put to bed in my parents' bed and my sister would be put to bed in her bed, about an hour later they would carry me into my bed asleep. When I got older I was allowed to read for that hour. I don't think they would have let me stay downstairs as my sister would have thought she was missing out on something IYSWIM.

They tried threats but it didn't work - we'd be quiet for about five minutes, start whispering because there was something we couldn't possibly wait until the morning to say and then get into a conversation and forget to whisper.

Oh and sorry but I agree with the poster who said a hotel is so exciting it might negate any routine you have managed to sort out!

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