My nearly 3 year old son (3 in April) has started calling out to hubby and I when he wakes at night. He seems to either wake crying (screaming really) after a nightmare or, as he cant (or won't?) go back to sleep he calls hubby or I in. He'll say he needs a cuddle, has a sore throat, sore eyes etc and that he can't sleep.
We try to settle him down, explain cuddles are for night time etc and walk out. Most of the time he calls us back within minutes by yelling or crying. He's often awake for 1-2 hours.
If we hop into bed with him he'll go back to sleep a little quicker.
We can't really Just leave him as he wakes his 4 month old brother who already wakes twice a night.
We've tried bribery with chocolate but that only worked for a couple of days.
He has a gro clock and still has his dummy and hasn't had day sleeps in months - although could do with once in a while.
Any ideas?! We a really need to break this one!