Can anyone advise? Please before I lose it....

[IamBlossom]

My 2.2 year old has always had a sleep in the day and is unbearable if he doesn't. Recently, after sleeping perfectly happily in his new room and new bed for a month, he now refuses to go to bed, getting up as soon as I put him in it and running to the door and opening it. I put him back in repeatedly, a la Supernanny, but he thinks it's great game and will carry it on for upwards of an hour. I am not superhuman and end up screaming at him and then hate myself, but he is driving me crackers. This is happening at night too.

Do I:

a) abandon sleep attempts if they are not working?
b) persist with this method which takes so long it's practically bed time before I get him down for his day time nap?
c) try something else altogether?

i have tried calming him down before bed time with milk and a bit of telly, stories, I've tried shouting, none of it works, in fact shouting doesn't make any difference at all.

He is crying at his stair gate right now, what shall I do????

Thanks

Blossom

PS I've also tried just leaving him up there hoping he will take himself to sleep as he is so tired,but he climbs on the window sill and gets wrapped up in the pull etc.....

i had this with dd1

she is 4 now and still has a nap at times

i got fed up putting her to bed when she was about 2.2, so i then let her lie on the couch with a cosy blanket over her, sometimes with the telly on very very quietly and i would sit close by and read the paper or whatever

Dts used to do this, but instead of cutting out the naps, they had a nap every other day, that seemed to work as long as they did'nt sleep longer than usual overnight.

DS1 was still in a cotbed at this age which helped.

Is the room really dark because I think they struggle to get to sleep when it's not blackened out?

Other thing is a warm bottle of milk, story and cuddle just like bedtime to wind them down.

Maybe a reward chart?

Sorry not much help other than that.