I have a 2 and 3 yr old and they go to bed at 7pm but all they do is mess about and run wild when i put them to bed they are up in the moring round 8am so they should b tired any ideas
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Do you realize that is 13 hours sleep if they actually do just drift off peacefully? That's way too much... I would rebel too! Children only need 10. Not 13
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try and get them active during the day so they get tired. the more activity they have during the day the faster and maybe earlier they fall asleep. My nephew is about 3 1/2 and as soon as the lights go off he stays in his bed and sleeps after a few minutes. He plays a lot and is always doing something so getting your kids active may help get them tired
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to many hours of sleep time do they take a nap in the day to? either get them up earlier or put them down later. but bed time is bed time not tv reading playing time.
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You have to have a routine. Supper first, then quiet play (no TV or DVD's), then a bath, then bed. Lay down on the bed with them, or sit in a chair beside it, and read a book or two. Then turn off the lights and sing a song and rub their back. Put the two year old to bed first, then the three year old. Do it every night. One of my sons required the addition of "sleeping powder". I would sprinkle his back with baby powder and rub in the "sleeping powder". It was magic. My sons were so conditioned that even when we weren't home they would fall asleep at 8:30. They woke at at 6:30 every morning without being called, and took two hour naps in the afternoon. When they were in school, they took two hour naps in the summer when they were off on into high school. Of course, by that time the difficulty was trying to get them to stop at two hours.
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