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From: budd@arizona.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: kids in bed
Message-ID: <6668@arizona.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 11:15:25 EST
Article-I.D.: arizona.6668
Posted: Thu Dec  8 11:15:25 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Dec-83 02:01:46 EST
Organization: CS Dept, U of Arizona, Tucson
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OK.  I will start by admitting we broke a cardinal rule.  When our eldest
daughter (now 3) was young and wanted to nurse at night and the house was
cold and dark and all, my wife would decide "ah heck" and just bring her
back to bed with us for a while.  Thereafter, there never seemed an
appropriate time to say ''from now on you cannot come into mommy and pappa's
bed!''.

Well, now she is three.  And about one night in three, maybe more often, she
still slips out of her bed and comes and crawls into ours.  The difficult part
is she is quiet about it, and often we don't notice her until hours later, or
until morning.  Nevertheless, I find this annoying.  We've tried closing our
door (she sits and screams at 2 in the morning until we open it, and besides
my wife is afraid she won't hear the kids in the night if something goes wrong).
We've tried putting her in the crib from which her little sister recently
graduated.  (She then screams at 2 in the morning to be let out).  Any advice?

(This may just be a transient thing.  Up until about 3 weeks ago we didn't
have any real problems, as she would almost always sleep through the night.
Perhaps she doesn't like the cold weather - although we do keep the heater
on in her room at night).
--tim budd, univ of arizona, tucson.