How can I get my 32 month old daughter out of our bed?

Question

My daughter has slept with us for over a year and 1/2 when I was pregnant with my son. Her toddler bed is in our room, but she will not stay in it. She says she wants to sleep with us. We try to explain that she is a big girl and she needs to sleep in her own bed, but she goes from her bed to our bed until she finally settles in our bed.

Answer 1

Is it possible to move her bed out of your room?  Although it may seem harsh at first, that would be the best way to start.

If she is going from her bed to yours back and forth until she winds up in your bed, she knows to "play" this "game" until she wins.  However long it takes, then, she'll go back and forth until she ends up in your bed.  The only solution is to set firm rules of no sleeping in your bed and to stick with them no matter how much she screams, throws fits, cries, and whines--even if it means no sleep for anyone for a few nights (limit her naps during the day, too, so that she doesn't just make up for not sleeping at night by sleeping during the day, thereby giving her lots of energy to fight it out when you want to sleep and will be more likely to give in).  After about a week or two, she'll realize that she's not allowed to sleep in your bed.

Answer 2

When I got my oldest daughter in her own bed (thanks to my mom getting her used to sleeping with her when I worked third shift - 10 pm to 6 am) I put her in her own room in her bed and literally EVERY FIVE MINUTES we had to take he back into her room and put her in her bed.  That lasted about two nights before she was so tired she just passed out one night and made it about halfway through the night (I didn't give her naps during the day).  I think all in all it took about a week or so, but after all that hard work she now is happy to sleep in her own bed. = )

If you do not have an extra room for her to use, you will need to find a way to divide the room maybe to give her a space just for her and some way to keep her from seeing yu and making you feel bad for her.  Kids know how to manipulate us, just plain and simple! lol

Answer 3

forgive the brashness, but...why is her bed not in her own room?? Start here