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So the only way to ensure 4yo sleeps until 7am is...

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PourquoiTuGachesTaVie · 04/08/2014 17:00

Is to put him to bed at 10pm. Hmm

A couple of late nights due to being at a wedding and then a birthday party in the last few days have proved the only way to stop him waking at 5am is if he doesn't sleep until 10pm the night before.

And I was hoping moving bedtime from 7pm to 7.30pm would do the trick!

I can't have him up that late every day, it would drive me mad! I need my evenings for watching grown up tv, studying and the occasional bit of adult time with dh!

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PumpkinPie2013 · 04/08/2014 19:27

Oh no! That sounds hard! I wouldn't want him up until 10pm regularly either!

If you put him to bed at 7.30pm does he go to sleep?

What about when he wakes at 5 pm? Can you use a gro clock and tell him he needs to read/colour/play quietly until the clock shows it's time to get up?

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PourquoiTuGachesTaVie · 04/08/2014 20:07

Provided he has had an active day then he is generally very good at going straight to sleep when he goes to bed.

In the morning sometimes he will play quietly in his room or in our bed, which is fine, but if he doesn't want to do that he is either insistent we get up (cue tantrum - bit hard to sleep though lol Grin) or he will roam the house which I really don't want him to do. He can open stair gates and figured out how the gro clock worked so it's a bit useless now.

Maybe I just need more tea in the mornings Wink and remind myself that in about 10 years he won't want to get up in the mornings and my revenge can begin

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bigbadwritersblock · 04/08/2014 22:16

My 4 y/o DS has started sleeping through to 7 for the first time in long while (has never slept well for any decent length of time) and its because his sleep pattern is disturbed my my dd (16 weeks) so he's not coming into his light sleep at 5 anymore because she's stirring him at 2 or 4 am (or last night; hourly) he doesn't wake but stirs and mutters (similar to the wake to sleep that's recommended for early morning waking) so might be worth a try with your DC - rouse him when you go to bed first and see if that helps?!?

bigbadwritersblock · 04/08/2014 22:17

Plus I used to put him to bed around 6.30 (due to waking early) but now he's asleep around 7.30

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