Toddler,who doesnot like to sleep

Other biggest parenting issue that often comes in our way is " Sleeping habit of the Toddler". As a parent we make sure that the kid is in the bed at right time and doesn't keeping getting up the whole night. Lots of us have had a sleepless nights, where in we spend the entire night in soothing the child as he keeps getting up for different reasons.. either he needs drink in the night or he needs hug from the mum or he wants to sleep with dad and many more..

There are different ways to handle this parenting issue. Few of the influential advice that helped me a lot to tackle these parenting issues are :

• Over the period of time i have learnt that shouting at your child can never put him to sleep early. Child is at growing stage and goes through lots of changes and may not want to sleep sharp at 0700 in the evening. Therefore try and extend his sleeping time ,change it from 0700 to 0800 clock.
• Cut down on his afternoon nap or just reduce his duration of the afternoon nap as this would put him to sleep early in the night.
• Remember to complete all his little task before he goes to bed like make him drink water, take him to the washroom, read him a story , hug him and say - Goodnight & I love you
• Be prepared that he would get up in the night. As soon as he gets up and comes to your room. Don't speak to him or ask questions , simply take him back to his room and tell him that its time to sleep again give him a hug and say I love you.
• Repeat the same exercise if he gets up again , pacify him and tell him that its time to sleep
• One thing that as a parent you need to learn is to be firm with your child. Its good to give hugs and kisses but if your child has made it a habit of getting up every 2 hours time then after pacifying him for 2-3 times , be firm and tell him that its time to sleep and he is not supposed to come out of his bed till the sunrise.

No doubt, he would definitely trouble you for first 1 week but trust me if you follow this regime and make yourself strong then nothing is impossible. Try this and see the magic yourself. You and your toddler would be at ease and would have comfortable sleep the whole night..

I would come back again with another Parenting issue and the ways around it...till then Happy Parenting