siblings sharing a room 3 and 6 years every night is like a sleepover end of my teather!

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both boys. Every night they are laughing, talking, playing, needing a drink, a wee, in and out of each others bed. Its 9pm and they are both still awake even though they went to bed at 8pm. Ive takien a bin liner and put all their teddies in there after 2 warnings and now both are screaming and crying. Can't cope with it and yet very little I can do about them not sharing a room

Split bedtimes ?
I have 2 girls same age but am lucky they go to bed with little fuss (thankfully dd1 falls asleep as soon as head hits pillow , dd2 would stay up longer i am sure)

Mina are this age,and they still sleep in our bed,together at bedtime I snuggle in with them and insist on quiet after a bit of chatter,and then I get up when they fall asleep.Maybe you could cuddle in with your boys and get them to stop talking after ten minutes,and then they would doze off? I know if mine were up there just the two of them it would be horrendous!

'tether' even sick of shouting and screaming.

My two also share a room, they are 5 and 3 and we also split bedtime; the youngest goes up about 20 mins before the eldest and us always asleep by the time he goes up to bed. I know my 2 would also be a nightmare if they both went up at the same time!

Thankyou ive made the big mistake of putting them to bed together as they used to be fine so now the little one expects to go at the same time. I guess im going to have to break this mode. Occassionally the little one would go to bed earlier if really tired but lately he seems very competetive with his brother and expects the same treatments so refuse to go to bed early. The start of sibling rivalry i guess.

Yeah dd1 still moans that ds gets to go to bed later than them.
You will prob find the first one in bed falls asleep pretty quickly with no one to talk to.

Thankyou just when i thought i had overcome all the bed time battles something new starts. Well at least im not feeling broody any more thats for sure and yes I will start this weekend with dh as backup rubbish that he's away in the week im sure the kids are worse for me

Hmm I'm having problems with my younger girls 4 and 6. It's the younger one who is up until all hours. I might try a split bedtime if it's working for others. Maybe younger DD will drop off more easily on her own.

How long have they being sharing? Mine have been sharing forever but were like this when they started sleeping at the same time. If you ignore the chatter and keep sending them back to their rooms if they come out the novelty wears off after a couple of weeks.

Have boy and girl, don't share unless on hols - it is younger DD who keeps DS awake, and he ends up weeping with tiredness! So we split them up - one starts off going to sleep in our room, and then when we go to bed, we just move them to their own bed.
I know this might be a pain every night.. but better than the alternative? :o)
Good luck.

Mine hae been together for around 3 years.At first DD2 would complain that DD3's crying was stopping her from falling asleep but that was a minor blip at the beginning. Thay have been great up until about the last 9 months maybe.

I plonk one of ours in our bed to start the night off ( the one is is the ring-leader in night time shenanigans) then when they are both asleep, I take the one that was in our bed- out into her bunk , where they sleep peacefuly for the rest of the night. They hate it when they are seprated, and so if they start mis behaving at night, I threaten to separate them, and usually that stops the nonsense, but if it doesn't I remove the offending child!

I put the younger one to sleep in my bed and then move him in with hos brother when I go to bed.
My 2 are a nightmare when they go to bed together!