UrbanBaby

06.20.08, 07:31 AM General Topics
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Advice? Twin girls, 5, share a room, and that's not going to change. No matter when we put them to bed, they wake up at 5 or 5:30. Whoever is up first wakes the other one. They are not allowed to come out until 7, which they sometimes heed, but usually not. Of course I yell or get up to get them back into bed, which gets me so riled up that I can't go back to sleep, and there's no way they are, either. They're crabby by the end of the day. So they've been going to bed at like 6:45, because at least they get some sleep that way. But they still wake up early even if we put them to bed at 9. (Room has blackout shades, relatively quiet.) Anything I haven't thought of? (Please don't tell me to move to a larger apartment because we don't have the money.) [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
General Topics 06.20.08, 07:31 AM Flag

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I would advise this: Stop the rule that they can't come out til 7am. Make the new rule that whoever wakes up first should leave the room quietly, close the door and go to the living room to watch tv, read or play quietly. If you want them to sleep later, you have to put them to bed later for a few weeks straight. I am a sleep shifting expert and in a few weeks, if you put them to bed at 8 they will start waking at 6:30. .....at age 5, most kids require a minimum of 10 hr of sleep...which yours are getting. Some kids sleep more but if yours don't there isn't much you can do about it but try and make the 10 hrs they sleep most convenient for you [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.20.08, 07:38 AM Flag

OP: You're the greatest. Thanks. Will try. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.20.08, 07:39 AM Flag

OP. they got up at 6 again...I guess it takes time. [ Reply | More

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General Topics 06.21.08, 11:15 AM Flag