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Thursday, January 21, 2010
How to get a 4 year old to sleep by herself...
Hey, Lanea, I gotta topic for you..not sure if anyone else is interested in this....how the heck to do you get a 4-year old to go to sleep by herself?
"Enya" Music soundtrack "Enya" that will do it. Remember Jennifer, I have something new oh my gosh, get super excited, well what is this ask her? How do you work it ask her. How do i play it ask her? Let her show you how to put in cd or whatever and play it for you. Voila. Now, its her skill. This becomes her thing. Oh my gosh you are so smart! How did you do that you ask her. Its 20 minutes earlier every night you put her to bed and it replaces you trust me. same routine but add enya and add it 20 minutes before you. bath before bed wears her out make sure she has a ton of eye hand coordination toys in the bath that use her energy its a plus for her anyway. good luck and lets write more tomororow. love this, thanks for the topic give me more more more! Lanea
She does seem to do better w/ things if we TALK about it alot. I guess I'm just worried about the crying/getting out of bed, etc. which is why I didn't start this sooner. (:
Good morning Jennifer, :-) Oh gosh yes, sometimes you can get so past the time to make that change that its just obvious and she is making sure to show you now how obivous that it is. Its just habit now. Here is what to do. Pretend its time for bed like 45 minutes early and have in a cute bag a few new books and surprise her with calm voice and say silly me, cant belive forgot to show you these, listen its time for bed but i have to wash dishes or bla bla something. Tell her softly do you want to look at these right away or do you want to wait until i come and rest with you to show you. Make sure they are books not required by you to read her. As in stuff only she can read or manipulate. Prior to that puzzles are super great a new puzzle for her! ANyway,so lets say she is reading one by one, tell her. lets say you have 3 new colorful cool books and say okay. Now, Here are the 3 books and if you finish one while i am busy doing the dishes,shower whatever you decide to tell her then say, put this book right here so i know that you already looked at this one and I can read the other ones to you. Its a fake out. She will be like oh okay. Then repeat so you understand mommy wants to read this to you when i am finished with my ... so if you want to change to the other book just go put it right here (desk)and that way we will know which book I can read next etc get it? This is just re directing her from what her normal routine is and adding something NEW NEW NEW to her routine. Earlier as in 45 minutes before normal time when you stay with her. Repeat same exact lines 3 nights in a row same time same routine until the 4th night she will be like.. i know i know put the book on the desk and you will read it... then hope by the 5th night she is set maybe add one more book or something. Now, in case that heeeeee she likes to read and just happens not to fall asleep like me when I was a child heeeee then take the light down lower 1/2 way through and then she will slowly drift hope and if you check on her say softly and softer are you almost ready for me to see and then best case scenerio is in the morning first thing.... Heh Heh big girl!!!!! Good morning Sunshine!!! Heh, So big girl, tell me with your normal adult voice... how was your book.ANd, talk as if your a teenager you know or like she is 7 yrs and not 4yrs. Keep bringing her up to her age by one year. Seriously be super interested but dont over do it and ask her to tell you about the book and how interesting it sounds etc or are you serious? Really the monkey did that are you sure let me see.Then let her show you in the day time etc. If this works repeat every day for 3 days or she will think your a nut! ha! Anyway, if she following week or two looks like she already has it down and right she figures it out or catches on just get 3 more books hope they are cheap! let me know how this works
"Enya" Music soundtrack "Enya" that will do it. Remember Jennifer, I have something new oh my gosh, get super excited, well what is this ask her? How do you work it ask her. How do i play it ask her? Let her show you how to put in cd or whatever and play it for you. Voila. Now, its her skill. This becomes her thing. Oh my gosh you are so smart! How did you do that you ask her. Its 20 minutes earlier every night you put her to bed and it replaces you trust me. same routine but add enya and add it 20 minutes before you. bath before bed wears her out make sure she has a ton of eye hand coordination toys in the bath that use her energy its a plus for her anyway. good luck and lets write more tomororow. love this, thanks for the topic give me more more more! Lanea
ReplyDeleteCool! I will try that!
ReplyDeleteShe does seem to do better w/ things if we TALK about it alot. I guess I'm just worried about the crying/getting out of bed, etc. which is why I didn't start this sooner. (:
ReplyDeleteGood morning Jennifer, :-) Oh gosh yes, sometimes you can get so past the time to make that change that its just obvious and she is making sure to show you now how obivous that it is. Its just habit now. Here is what to do. Pretend its time for bed like 45 minutes early and have in a cute bag a few new books and surprise her with calm voice and say silly me, cant belive forgot to show you these, listen its time for bed but i have to wash dishes or bla bla something. Tell her softly do you want to look at these right away or do you want to wait until i come and rest with you to show you. Make sure they are books not required by you to read her. As in stuff only she can read or manipulate. Prior to that puzzles are super great a new puzzle for her! ANyway,so lets say she is reading one by one, tell her. lets say you have 3 new colorful cool books and say okay. Now, Here are the 3 books and if you finish one while i am busy doing the dishes,shower whatever you decide to tell her then say, put this book right here so i know that you already looked at this one and I can read the other ones to you. Its a fake out. She will be like oh okay. Then repeat so you understand mommy wants to read this to you when i am finished with my ... so if you want to change to the other book just go put it right here (desk)and that way we will know which book I can read next etc get it? This is just re directing her from what her normal routine is and adding something NEW NEW NEW to her routine. Earlier as in 45 minutes before normal time when you stay with her. Repeat same exact lines 3 nights in a row same time same routine until the 4th night she will be like.. i know i know put the book on the desk and you will read it... then hope by the 5th night she is set maybe add one more book or something. Now, in case that heeeeee she likes to read and just happens not to fall asleep like me when I was a child heeeee then take the light down lower 1/2 way through and then she will slowly drift hope and if you check on her say softly and softer are you almost ready for me to see and then best case scenerio is in the morning first thing.... Heh Heh big girl!!!!! Good morning Sunshine!!! Heh, So big girl, tell me with your normal adult voice... how was your book.ANd, talk as if your a teenager you know or like she is 7 yrs and not 4yrs. Keep bringing her up to her age by one year. Seriously be super interested but dont over do it and ask her to tell you about the book and how interesting it sounds etc or are you serious? Really the monkey did that are you sure let me see.Then let her show you in the day time etc. If this works repeat every day for 3 days or she will think your a nut! ha! Anyway, if she following week or two looks like she already has it down and right she figures it out or catches on just get 3 more books hope they are cheap! let me know how this works
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