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Help! She refuses to sleep in own bedroom
Ngogoyo
#16 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 4:11:08 PM
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Rahatupu wrote:
Jameni saidia hapa!

My 2 and a half year old rahalet won't sleep in her own bedroom. She insists on sharing our bed. Tried all tricks over the last 1 year to get her to accept to sleep in her own bed and bedroom lakini wapi. We've tried to make her share her brother's (10 yrs old) bedroom but own bed without success.
Made her a fancy bed still no luck.

Advise on what tricks, means, whatever that we may not be doing right in this endeavor.


mine same age, he has slept from 6 months in his own bed, last month started sleeping in his own bedroom.

solution; let it be like medicine, let her sleep in her own bed as a start (religiously even if she dozes off in your bed, transfer her to her bed).

When she is comfortable, do the same with her own bedroom reliiiigiously

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masukuma
#17 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 4:16:21 PM
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kumbe tuko wengi... mine has made me an IDP in my own house- i have to sleep in his room or he will sleep in ours. I guess some heartbreaking needs to happen but its difficult.
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Ngogoyo
#18 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 4:18:50 PM
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Wendz wrote:
Impunity wrote:
Rahatupu wrote:
Jameni saidia hapa!

My 2 and a half year old rahalet won't sleep in her own bedroom. She insists on sharing our bed. Tried all tricks over the last 1 year to get her to accept to sleep in her own bed and bedroom lakini wapi. We've tried to make her share her brother's (10 yrs old) bedroom but own bed without success.
Made her a fancy bed still no luck.

Advise on what tricks, means, whatever that we may not be doing right in this endeavor.


For the very first week that a child is born ensure he/she sleeps with the maid so that he/she will grow up knowing where to sleep!

Its too l ate now to change the kid, the only option left is to let the kid grow to the age he/she will know how to separate good from bad...age of 10!...no landing in that bedroom in the foreseeable future!
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Waoh... @impunity, please say those words again, very very slooooowwwlllyyy.... with your eyes closed, assume you are looking at a week's old baby who looks like you and has your blood flowing through their little veins, then report back.


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willin2learn
#19 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 4:28:04 PM
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Two and a Half Years???? Kweli umeumia mzee. And you had to do this when July's njeve is at its mbittest
murchr
#20 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 4:56:51 PM
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Decorate that room in a way that makes her want to live there.
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Rahatupu
#21 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 5:40:54 PM
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muchcr, will try that, in the meantime will Sossion mpaka ajue there are no options.
CLK
#22 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:09:23 PM
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Impunity wrote:
Rahatupu wrote:
Jameni saidia hapa!

My 2 and a half year old rahalet won't sleep in her own bedroom. She insists on sharing our bed. Tried all tricks over the last 1 year to get her to accept to sleep in her own bed and bedroom lakini wapi. We've tried to make her share her brother's (10 yrs old) bedroom but own bed without success.
Made her a fancy bed still no luck.

Advise on what tricks, means, whatever that we may not be doing right in this endeavor.


For the very first week that a child is born ensure he/she sleeps with the maid so that he/she will grow up knowing where to sleep!

Its too l ate now to change the kid, the only option left is to let the kid grow to the age he/she will know how to separate good from bad...age of 10!...no landing in that bedroom in the foreseeable future!
Laughing out loudly


Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you
i hope you dont have children, and the maid is supposed to breastfeed the baby??? Ama ulinyonya matiti za mboch wenyu???
Prime
#23 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:19:27 PM
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My experience was closer to ngogoyo's. primelet was on our bed till around 6 months. She was then moved to her own cot IN our bedroom. On her first birthday she was out and into the house help's bedroom. Our struggle was more in begging and cuddling her to sleep. But a time came when her mum went out of the country for a month. I would just switch off the light everyday at 9 pm. She would protest and protest but eventually she got the flow.
CLK
#24 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:29:32 PM
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KulaRaha wrote:
There is no solution but the hard one...let her cry for 2 to 3 days and she will adjust. I had to do it to my older one, broke my heart, but he managed.


Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you

Growing up, my dad used to work away from home, being the last born i had the opportunity to enjoy sleeping with my mum, you can imagine what would happen, when this stranger showed up every three months and i was kicked out of that bed.
I was never happy whenever my dad was around when it came to bedtime....

Now i grew up somewhere where horror stories about witches and wizards and night runners were common, this is the reason i never wanted to sleep in my room. My reason for not wanting to sleep in my bed was i was scared. Find out why your daughter does not want to sleep in her bed, is she scared of something or she is just attached to that bed, maybe she feels more secure there...

What Muheani said is what my mum devised, she would trick me, let me doze off in her bed and ship me to my bed later on, a couple of times i would wake up and scream in the middle of the night on discovering i was sleeping alone, my mum would come tell me it was okay, there was no one to harm me, at times she would get into my bed only to leave once i dozed off again, eventually i woke up in the morning in my room alone so many times and realized there were other things to worry about than the witches....

all the best, breaks my heart nikiskia mtoto analia, hata wa neighbor, i could call cradle on you...

Kratos
#25 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:45:45 PM
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Kumbe we are many "suffering" in silence. Kratolet #2 has the same problem. He is slightly over 3 years old. Initially he used to sleep in his own cot after 6 months, then we moved him to another room. Then i got a job requiring travel and that was the start of it. I didn't mind it so much since he would keep the mum company.
He even wakes up at 2 or 3 am and comes knocking having walked all the way saying things like please nifungulie tuu......then if no response he starts crying....nothing breaks my heart like hearing him cry.
I think the advise for taking him to his bed after he sleeps again works but also is tiresome, imagine waiting for him to sleep again then taking him back!
We should form a chama!Sad

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murchr
#26 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:49:38 PM
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Kratos wrote:
Kumbe we are many "suffering" in silence. Kratolet #2 has the same problem. He is slightly over 3 years old. Initially he used to sleep in his own cot after 6 months, then we moved him to another room. Then i got a job requiring travel and that was the start of it. I didn't mind it so much since he would keep the mum company.
He even wakes up at 2 or 3 am and comes knocking having walked all the way saying things like please nifungulie tuu......then if no response he starts crying....nothing breaks my heart like hearing him cry.
I think the advise for taking him to his bed after he sleeps again works but also is tiresome, imagine waiting for him to sleep again then taking him back!
We should form a chama!Sad


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Mukiri
#27 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:51:09 PM
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Start sleeping in her bed, to show her its ok. I'm guessing she'll follow you. When eventually(a week or two) you move back, the ensuing ndrama won't be as much.

Proverbs 19:21
newfarer
#28 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:52:17 PM
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Mimi pia iko ndani ya hii sida. naomba sirkal aingie kati. conjugals have to wait till he is deep asleep lakini si hoja. kungoja nayo! !
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danas10
#29 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 7:00:23 PM
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Kratos wrote:
Kumbe we are many "suffering" in silence. Kratolet #2 has the same problem. He is slightly over 3 years old. Initially he used to sleep in his own cot after 6 months, then we moved him to another room. Then i got a job requiring travel and that was the start of it. I didn't mind it so much since he would keep the mum company.
He even wakes up at 2 or 3 am and comes knocking having walked all the way saying things like please nifungulie tuu......then if no response he starts crying....nothing breaks my heart like hearing him cry.
I think the advise for taking him to his bed after he sleeps again works but also is tiresome, imagine waiting for him to sleep again then taking him back!
We should form a chama!Sad


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masukuma
#30 Posted : Tuesday, July 23, 2013 7:25:09 PM
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murchr wrote:
Decorate that room in a way that makes her want to live there.

interesting idea! when I was younger I used to diss those "sissy" parents in Nanny 911, i used to think - what is wrong with these people? Kumbe the proof of the pudding is in the eating... its heart breaking, hard and plus it takes place during ungodly hours of the night when there is almost no will to fight with a screaming 2 year old.
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