Never again will I bemoan putting two children to bed in the same room. Apparently, it is WAY harder to put two children to bed in two different rooms. Especially if they are twins!
Where’s a sleep specialist when you need one? Or duct tape? Or maybe superglue and some nails would work? OH! I KNOW! How about switching back to cribs since it seems like mom jumped the gun with regular beds?
Unless the kids are climbing out of their cribs that quickly????
Oh, I give up. This just SUCKS.
UPDATE: Amanda M just posted this video on my facebook page. Apparently, the mom above needs a lesson from the mom below!
Lol, I saw this a few days ago and couldn’t stop laughing. I love it when one of the twin saw his mom, and he ran back into his room. Also, the part where he shuts the door on her while she was busy with his brother…and ran off to play.
Kudos to mommy’s with multiple kids under 5…
She could start by changing the door levers to twist style knobs. They’re harder for little hands to open. Less chance of a break away!
no NO no NO and NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I am keeping mine in a crib forever cuz I dont wanna deal with this. okay maybe not forever but most definitely until he can climb out on his own.
When my now-5 year old was two and I switched him out of a crib into a bed he could climb out of I spent about a week working to make him stay in his bed and then I just made sure there was a child-proof knob on the inside of his door so he couldn’t get out and I stopped worrying about it. What did it really matter to me if he played with his toys instead of sleeping? It wasn’t really any different than listening to him talk to himself in his crib for an hour. If I didn’t go in there he would fall asleep fairly quickly anyway and it was a short learning curve to discover that the bed was a more comfortable place to sleep than the floor.
That being said, my now-2 year old will be staying in a crib as long as I can get away with it and not switching to a toddler bed until he starts climbing out of his crib (which is set up with the mattress flat on the floor with the crib walls around it to discourage climbing).
Mine climbed out of his crib one day after his 1 year birthday, and we’re just now getting to the point where he’ll stay in bed when we say goodnight. He’s 6.
Hahahahahaahahahaa…HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAA!!!!…it’s so funnnyyyy… I’m peeing…hahahaahHAHAHAHAhahahahaa!!!
I am mean. I would not have put up with this for long! They need to child proof the door handles!
…and I have twins. This would have taken way too much effort!
I would have left the doors open, my kids would have hopped back into bed when they saw me watching. I’ve spent many evenings reading on the top step outside their rooms, when they realize they aren’t getting away with anything, they pretend to sleep so i’ll go away – and oh, the pretending becomes real!!
What’s up with a bed-time routine?
Some quiet, soothing activity to help little ones go to sleep?
Probably harder when each child in separate room, why not put them together? Draw the curtains so it’s dark, short story, and kiss goodnight xx
I have twins and another just 11 months older. I played this game once, when the twins moved to big kid beds. It took five days of sitting outside their room, putting them back to bed. If you’re patient and persistent, they’ll get it. No problems since then.
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