Sleep - Lake Dallas,TX

Super nanny technique worked for my 2 year old. After bedtime routine and kisses, I sat with my back facing her. Mine didn't get out of bed for some reason - I was really surprised and expected her to; however, she did cry. I ignored the crying; however, just continued to sit there with my back to her. She fell asleep within 30 minutes. If yours is more challenging, you may have to walk her to the bed several times without saying anything; however, continue to sit with your back towards her until she falls asleep. good luck!

Hi S. -

You definitely want to loose the night light. I have a 3 yr old that will only put herself to sleep if her older sister is in the room with her. What I've found that works well for us is letting her lay on the couch in our family room and watch my prepare the clothes for the next day. For some reason if she can see me she relaxes a lot quicker and then when she falls asleep I put her in her bed. Sometimes I place a pillow on my lap while I'm catching my favorite show around 7:30 and she will lay across my lap and before the show is over she's asleep and I take her to her bed... I know this is probably babying her but it gets her down by 8pm every night and it's less stressful for me and my family then running back and forth to put her back to bed.

Try not to let her nap past 1:30pm and make sure she spends plenty of time running around. i know as a child we were not allowed to run in the house but we play a game with my daughter where she will run from the front door all the way back to the family room like 5-6 times which seems to get some of that energy out before bed.

We recently went through this with our son who's nearing 3. We put him in a twin bed and he started to get up all the time.

I read on the internet to not use negative reinforcement but positive.

There was something online that says to give your child something - we used pennies. We give him THREE pennies each night. If he keeps all of them he cashes them in for 3 skittles in the morning (you can use M&Ms or whatever they like). Another lady saved them so they could do a trip to the dollar store at the end of the week. I don't worry about my son putting them in his mouth but if you child is still young, put them pennies up on a shelf she can't reach.

The thing is whenever you need to get up with them because they got up and won't stay in bed, take a penny away.

We did this ONE night with our son and he will NOT get out of bed at night anymore. He lost one penny. After that he goes to bed every night. We give him his pennies and he points to daddy and says, 'Do not take my pennies daddy!'.

We have told him he IS allowed to get out of his bed if he is poopy so he does know that.

This has helped us tremendously. We started it last week as a last ditch effort because we'd put him to bed at 9pm and he'd still be up at 11! Now he stays in bed.

Good luck!

Was she able to get out of her Crib on her own? Was that why you switched her to a toddler bed so early? I didn't even consider switching to a toddler bed until the crib no longer kept her in and it became a saftey concern. But it seems I read ALOT of women on here with the same problem and I always wonder why they are so quick to switch! My daughter wasn't able to climb out of her crib until she was three!