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From: jmc@riccb.UUCP (Jeff McQuinn )
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Sending kids to bed ---help needed---
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 09:05:36 EDT
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> 
> The sister, age 4.5, sleeps on the couch. She has always slept
> on the couch. For some reason she has a fear of her bedroom.
> If anybody has any advice on how to make her feel at home in
> her room I would listen with all three ears.
> 

I can really sympatize with you.  We had the same problem with our oldest
(now 7) in that he refused to sleep in his own bed.  We solved it by
allowing him to go to sleep in his favored spot (our bed) then moving him
to his own bed after he fell asleep.  He'd get up later and come back in
our bed at first, but after he was asleep we'd just move him back.  After
a while he stopped getting up at night to move in with us and we started
making him start out in his own bed.  The hardest part was getting him to go
to sleep without me being in the room (which was the final crutch).  Of 
course if you have patience she will finally outgrow the fear on her own.
A lot of it is a delay tactic (kids just love to delay bedtime unless they
are really exhausted).
                                  Jeff McQuinn just VAXing around


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