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Top tip to your toddler to stay in bed longer!!!

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grapesandmoregrapes · 30/04/2010 21:37

since its been getting lighter in the mornings DD1 2yrs has been getting up earlier (6.30 instead of 7.30). anyway, last night when i went up to bed i put one of her favourite toys in her cot, so when she woke up the morning she was pleasantly surprised to find Igglepiggle in bed with her, and happily played with him for another half hour.

it would of been longer but DD2 5mo decided it was time for her to get up (don't think she liked the noises igglepiggle was making). tonight i will try a toy that doesn't make a noise, might work a bit better for children that share a room!

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madcatsazz · 30/04/2010 22:27

I have fond memories of DD playing with toys in her cot for a good hour in the mornings. Then we took the sides off.........still shaking my head at that one!

BythewayItsStillMe · 30/04/2010 22:33

DS is 2.8 and is currently getting up between 6 and 6.15... we've moved all his playmobil stuff into his room and yet he still insists on bringing an armful of toys into our room and dumping them on top of me and demanding we play

Even 7am would be ok, but 6??? Thats just not fair.

Loved listening to DS playing in his cot, would talk to himself for ages, was lovely.

Thinking of getting him a digital clock and telling him he can only come in my room once the number 7 is there!

madcatsazz · 30/04/2010 22:41

I only wish I had thought to put a stair gate on DD's door when we took the sides off cot - then it's just an extension of space - now it would be like a cage! Bytheway - DD does exactly the same but because I'm so grumpy in the morning, she just stops to ask me if she can wake Daddy yet and if I say yes she goes round to his side and dumps toys on him! She is 3.8mo though so it's taken a long time to get there. If it's too early, we send her back to her room to play quietly - doesn't always work though! Oh for the cot days....

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BythewayItsStillMe · 01/05/2010 09:05

Madcatsazz, both DS and the kitten seem to think that they should only wake me on a morning, DH never gets harrassed unless I say 'go and ask daddy if he wants a coffee' then he'll go round the other side and ask DH until he wakes up! But then I have to listen to him asking over and over so its hardly relaxing!

We used to have a baby gate on DS's door, not really sure why or when we took it off... if I put it back on now he'd have a screaming fit!

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grapesandmoregrapes · 01/05/2010 19:16

yeah think it works best if your child is still in a cot. I'm planning on keeping DD in cot for as long as possible, nice to keep her contained

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madcatsazz · 01/05/2010 19:35

BTWISM - am due to have 2nd DD any day now so lessons learned from first one....off to find out about extensions on cot bars....

madcatsazz · 01/05/2010 19:37

oh and grapes - agree entirely, keep the monkeys children contained as long as possible!

Bumperliouzzzzzz · 01/05/2010 20:03

God yes, keeping them in the cot for as long as possible helps! We have a gate over DD's door and for some reason she played happier for longer when in the cot than now she has the freedom of her room.

Am literally just looking at one of those bunny alarm clocks.

MumofJTM · 01/05/2010 20:51

Jojo Maman bebe have a rather nice sheep light up alarm clock, whcih our DS loves. He's in a bed, but usually happy to stay in room or potter about from his to ours until "Wooly wakes up". Unfortunately he usually feels the need to tell me at the top of his voice that he's "PLAYING QUIETLY IN MY ROOM!"

BythewayItsStillMe · 01/05/2010 21:57

We got a Lightning McQueen clock, but it makes so much noise when it changes from night time to day time, if DS wasn't already awake he would be by the time it went off!
It makes me jump when it goes off in the living room. The mechanism is far to noisy.

He recognises his numbers so was thinking of getting him a digital clock and making a big deal of where the number 7 should be on a morning when he gets up!

madcatsazz, have definitely learned lessons to be remembered when we have another baby!

blueberrysorbet · 03/05/2010 21:01

my ds always gets up amazingly early as well, , is just 3 and showing no signs of getting easier-waking the baby in his zeal to start the day! however, along with toys in bedroom I also leave him a little tupperware box with a handful of cereal in it and a cup of water - he is happy to eat it, look through a fave book etc. he comes to me about 6.30-7.00.
i do tell him its TOO EARLY and to go and play with toys. he has black out curtains and they make no difference!

it never occured to me to gate his bedroom! wish it had! expect he would have just climbed over,mind you

Lovethesea · 03/05/2010 21:32

I've just started to put some small books into DD's cot with her and her soft toys - she's 17 months. It's been so sweet the last few nights - bath, change, sleeping bag, milk, teeth, burp, bedtime book and then put down in her cot and handed a wee book. She's waved me goodnight and I have left her looking at the wee book

Hoping it works in the mornings too....

Bensmum76 · 04/05/2010 13:18

My DS is 2.6 years old, and when we moved him from cot to bed we put a stair gate on his door, mostly because we live in a town house and he is on the top floor on his own. He does get out of bed in the morning, sometimes as early at 6 but we have told him that its still night time and he will turn on his light and read for a while before calling out to us. If he opens his door and starts calling to us too early we tell him its still night time and put him back into bed. Thus usually works. I think eventually we will have to put some toys in his room for him to play with when he wakes early.

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grapesandmoregrapes · 04/05/2010 13:43

blueberry that is such a good idea putting a little snack in his room,not sure i could do that until DD is out of her cot though ,could get a bit messy.

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Jamieandhismagictorch · 04/05/2010 16:03

6.30 is not amazingly early - 5 is amazingly early (2 years of it ...)[ grin]

toja555 · 11/05/2010 16:12

My DS is only 2yo but very independent. He sleeps in junior bed since he was 15 months. Wakes up any time between 6 and 7pm, and always comes to our bedroom to wake me (not DH!) up. Since recently he is even putting on his slippers before coming He is in reach of all his toys in his bedroom, also knows how to turn on/off bed light, but it never prevented him from running to mummy.

TurtleAnn · 11/05/2010 20:28

13-months and waking at 5am
I am trying with the toy but if he wakes in the night it can be a problem, in am he just throws anything in his cot out and screams for Mum.
Got the blackout blind but not working, looking forward to the bleak, dark mornings of winter...

rookiemater · 11/05/2010 21:34

We have the gro clock, has made a world of difference. DS is sometimes awake before it turns into morning time, can tell from the crashings round his room, but knows not to bother us until morning time. Sadly if we set it any later than 7.00 ( 7.30 weekends) then he comes in to tell us that he has been up for ages and is hungry and it must be morning time by now.

SoTiredOfTheWheelsOnTheBus · 12/05/2010 12:37

We got the bunny clock for ds when he started waking about 5 o'clock. I think at first we set it about 6, and said when bunny is asleep it's still night time and you should be asleep. If you are awake, you should stay in your room, but you can come and see mummy and daddy when bunny is awake.

It lasted about 2 days until ds came charging into our room at 5.30, saying 'bunny's awake' - he had worked out how to change the clock and had woken bunny up early!

They're a great idea, but it didn't work in our house

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