My 5-year old and my 2-year old have to share a bedroom. My 5-year old sleeps in a full size bed, my 2-year old sleeps in a crib (and hasn't tried to climb out or minds sleeping in it at all).
What we have done in the past was to put the younger one down in his crib and once he was asleep we'd take the older one in and put him to bed. Now we are seeing that this wasn't such a great idea and here's why...
Now, we need to get our 5-year old to bed sooner (for he's starting Young 5's this school year) and we have started now for a while putting the boys both down at the same time. My 2-year old will sit/stand in his crib and yell to his big brother to try and get him to play. Good thing is, my oldest won't give into the game yet my little guy is relentless with yelling and talking to him.
Any suggestions on how to end this?
My poor oldest son has told me several times that it wasn't his idea to have his little brother share his room and he asks myself and his father if we can move his crib back to our room. We have a ranch style home that's a very open floor plan and no basement so there is no other option but for them to share a room. We do ask if he wants to sleep with his 3-year old sister but he just wants his own room and his bed to himself.
Can the 2 year old share with the 3 year old? Are their schedules more conducive to that?
My 3 boys share a room and when they were younger we staggered bedtimes because that's what we found to be easiest. Sometimes it was better to put the youngest child to bed last because they didn't have anyone to distract them and they would go to sleep easier if we did that.
It's funny though because now that my boys are older it's still hard to get them all to go to sleep because they will talk/whisper to each other all night if we let them.
Good luck!
Can the 3 year old and 2 year old room together?
We have a similar situation, though our children are younger, and I see us getting to this point too. :)
The easy way would be to put one of the boys with the sister, BUT it would not deal with baby not learning to be quiet and go to sleep. Time to work with baby brother on obedience. He needs to learn to be quiet at bedtime. You'll need to figure out what discipline method you want to use, and when he's making noise, go in and deal with it. Be relentlessly consistent, even if the first night you're up past midnight! He can also practice during nap times (when I assume he's alone in the room in his crib). This is important to do now because he won't be in that crib much longer and then you'll have the escaping from bed stuff to deal with as well. :).
Best wishes!
My girls are 7 and 3. They have been sharing a room for a few months now, because my younger was having nightmares and slept well with her sister. We put them to bed at the same time, there are a few nights they talk or fight with each other but for the most part tey are asleep within 15 mins. Bed time is 8pm for my girls, the 7 year old doesn't comp.ain to much. The other night it was 7:30 and my 3 year old wanted to go to bed so I put her down, then she said well maybe I will wait for my sissy. It was cute.
We are very stern witht he girls and tell them to stop talkingit is bed time, other than that just let them work it out on their own.
do you have a basements? I slept with my sister till she was 3 and I was11 and then my brother who 9 decided he wanted a bigger room so my parents converted the basement into a room for him. and my sister moved into his old room We are thinking of doing this eventually with our garage.
