When They Wake Up Screaming

[Heidi]

right now going to a mat would not work even if I wanted it to..... He would not stay on a mat if both of our lived depended on it..

He has to be in a PNP

Yeah, I'm with you, I don't move them to a mat until they are good sleepers & stay put.

Mine all have sleep sacks, so I can keep them in the pnp safely longer. No climbing out...

[countrymom]

mine are in pnp till they are good and ready too. There is no way i'm going to have them on mats.

[mommiesherie]

I have a box fan running in the hall or room the kids are sleeping in. That drowns out the noise of other kids and has a sound that soothes them when sleeping. I don't know about your laws in your state but its a great help to me for sleeping kids

[Childminder]

I have a sound machine that sits up on a shelf in the sleep room. Parents are amazed at how well and how long their children sleep in daycare. I have had screamers in the past and it only happens a few times till they "get" it is not acceptable to wake the others. Usually a couple of days of the stank eye or a few stern words and they stop.

[daycare]

I have a sound machine that sits up on a shelf in the sleep room. Parents are amazed at how well and how long their children sleep in daycare. I have had screamers in the past and it only happens a few times till they "get" it is not acceptable to wake the others. Usually a couple of days of the stank eye or a few stern words and they stop.

but when the child is only 22 months old and very very stubborn, how do you tell them to stop?

[Heidi]

but when the child is only 22 months old and very very stubborn, how do you tell them to stop?

If you have another room to have him sleep in, get it ready with a pnp. If he cries, tell him "if you make noise like that, I can't let you sleep with your friends", and move him.

My sister just made me sleep sacks for all my toddlers. I LOVE them so much, because I know they are safe in their beds. I always worry they could climb out otherwise..

[daycare]

If you have another room to have him sleep in, get it ready with a pnp. If he cries, tell him "if you make noise like that, I can't let you sleep with your friends", and move him.

My sister just made me sleep sacks for all my toddlers. I LOVE them so much, because I know they are safe in their beds. I always worry they could climb out otherwise..

I guess I should have been more descriptive about where and how he sleeps.

he is in a PNP at the other end of my house. My house is small, so no matter where I were to put him, his screaming is loud and startling, that it even makes me jump and Im awake.....

I have never met a child that is so stubborn in all my life. Any time the child has to do something that he does not want to, like eat food, change diaper or go to sleep. He SCREAMS bloody murder......

[renodeb]

Thats tough. I guess I have been lucky with the kids in my dc. Its almost like, they like getting on there mats. In my state we cant put them on mats until there 18 months. I usually wait until there 20 months though.
It could be the night terrors. I hate to open a can of worms on this thread but I think the co sleeping is acutally hurting the child in this case. The n eed to learn how to self sooth and sleep by themselves. Esp if there to be in dc some day!
Debbie

[Heidi]

I guess I should have been more descriptive about where and how he sleeps.

he is in a PNP at the other end of my house. My house is small, so no matter where I were to put him, his screaming is loud and startling, that it even makes me jump and Im awake.....

I have never met a child that is so stubborn in all my life. Any time the child has to do something that he does not want to, like eat food, change diaper or go to sleep. He SCREAMS bloody murder......

sorry-you probably had that in the post earlier, but by now I'd forgotten it (didn't re-read everything).

IN his room, turn on a quiet radio station. In the rest of the house, box fan, run dishwasher, bathroom fan and oven vent...your electric bill will suffer a little, but one day he'll just stop, and then you can turn them all off again. Your sanity is priceless!

[daycare]

sorry-you probably had that in the post earlier, but by now I'd forgotten it (didn't re-read everything).

IN his room, turn on a quiet radio station. In the rest of the house, box fan, run dishwasher, bathroom fan and oven vent...your electric bill will suffer a little, but one day he'll just stop, and then you can turn them all off again. Your sanity is priceless!

I do have the cable-tv music stations that I play for the other kids.

I have thought about doing it for the little one, but don't have any kind of musical device to plug in or any device that I could use where he is placed..

I am going to have to rethink how to make some form of nice noise happen...

thanks so much for your replies..