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And when she’d have a night or two or three in a row of waking we could then talk about how she needed to stay in bed and at this point it worked, i think because then she knew she COULD do it. I wanted to try these with my youngest daughter who is 5 because she does not sleep through the night.
As a general rule, toddlers need about 12 hours per night, three to six-year-olds need 10 to 12 hours, seven to twelve-year-olds need 10 hours and teenagers need 8 or 9 hours. Ours was reassuring on this topic and reminded us that their little humans and don’t actually need to consume quite as much as we think sometimes. Try to encourage a kid to learn math by paying her for each work-book page she completes – and she’ll almost certainly become more diligent in the short term and lose interest in math in the long term. and then when i say it’s time to go back to her bed, she goes, no drama, no whining and mama doesn’t have to take her.All it took was for me to stand by her side and cheer along with her when she felt proud of what she’d accomplished. I didn’t want my child to sleep through the night because I’d give her a stupid little sticker in the morning.
I wanted her to sleep through the night because it feels GOOD to get the right amount of rest for your body. On the “positive parenting” end of the spectrum, I heard one solution over and over and over again: Sticker charts. I discovered these last month and they definitely help her calm down right before her nap and bedtime! But here’s what I didn’t plan for: My child got really excited about having a string of good nights, all in a row. But that time, we discovered the reason was not that she didn’t understand the valid reasons for waking your parents in the middle of the night.I still get visits from her on occasion but she is a bit of a naturally anxious kid so she gets to climb in bed for a cuddle (gasp! We talked about how me not getting enough sleep left me cranky and could lead to me losing my temper more easily.
And, as much as we want to be loving parents, it doesn’t help them when we cave in and let them do what they want (she says propping her eyes open with match-sticks! Setting them clear expectations, and letting them know if they do not follow these then they do not get a reward! I put the sticker on her clothes in the center of the chest, so she can smell the scents, without her noticing because she will try to pull it off. At the end of that second week, I made a poster showing examples of emergencies, and a poster showing what makes for a good night. Perfect for phone cases, laptops, journals, guitars, refrigerators, windows, walls, skateboards, cars, bumpers, helmets, water bottles, hydro flasks, computers, or whatever needs a dose of originality.
I tried, the get out of bed tickets, i tried giving her 4 pennies/night and each time she’d get up she’d have to give one up, I tried sticker charts, i tried, a similar chart to this one where the chart had rows of cupcakes and she got to color in one for each night she stayed in bed, any color she chose. What if instead of me being the one handing out the stickers as a reward, my child was in charge of celebrating her own small victories?
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