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07.07.08, 11:30 AM General Topics
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Need advice...feel like i've screwed up on a bunch of toddler stuff: 2.5yo comes into our room each night between 1am and 3am, and we just throw him into bed w/us. He also still has a pacifier, which I've limited to naps and bedtime. He seems ready for potty training, but I need to get him out of our bed 1st - such a bad habit we started. Any BTDT? How did you break these habits?? [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
General Topics 07.07.08, 11:30 AM Flag
 

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when he comes in simply turn him around and put back into his own bed. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 11:32 AM Flag
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ita. but you dont' need to do this to start potty training. they are 2 different things. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 11:33 AM Flag
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no child ever started K with a paci, your teen would rather die than sleep in your bed and I've yet to see a college kid in diapers - you are doing fine :) [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 11:33 AM Flag
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excellent advice. I was getting no sleep at all because ds at 2 would sometimes wake up for hours in the middle of the night and I thought I should not bring him back to bed with me. I finally started doing that, he would fall asleep immediately. When he gave up his nap at 2.9, he started sleeping through the night in his own bed and rarely askes to come to mine. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 11:35 AM Flag
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ita...when you look at the big picture, these things really don't matter in the long run [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 12:16 PM Flag
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I'm not seeing any "screw ups" here. Just keep being a loving mom. The rest will work itself out. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 11:34 AM Flag
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What do you really want to do? If you don't mind him in bed w/ you then I wouldn't stress. But if you prefer it otherwise just walk him back to his bed each time--no talking or making it interesting in any way. If you want to get rid of the paci at some point, just do the paci fairy. And I don't think the potty training & bed thing are related at all. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 11:37 AM Flag
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Thanks! You all made me feel better. I guess when he starts potty training, I don't want him to have accidents in our bed, which is why I want him in his own bed and not in ours! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 11:42 AM Flag
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Except for the binky you are doing fine. What the hell were you thinking giving him a pacifier in the first place? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 11:40 AM Flag
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wish I did that with my DC who is 6 and still sucks her thumb and I can not forcefully remove a thumb the way I could have wiht a pacifier [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 11:59 AM Flag
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and once the pacifier was gone she would have used her thumb anyway [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 12:01 PM Flag
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not true at all. My kids took long to give up pacis (until three though in bed at night only) but never replaced it with a thumb. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 12:12 PM Flag
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ditto that. paci, but never thumb [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 12:17 PM Flag
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but there is no guarantee that this will not happen. Just like all my kids never got a paci and never used a thumb. It can very well happen that the child finds the thumb after the pacifier was taken away. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 12:19 PM Flag
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nothing wrong with pacis. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.07.08, 12:24 PM Flag
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