I'm trying wi/wo for the first time today with my almost 2-year old, for naptime. We've been at it about 40 minutes so far. I put him in his crib (he had fallen asleep in the car, for about 30 minutes, just prior, so I may have started all wrong) and he immediately jumped up and started crying. I patted him, told him it was time to go night-night, and walked out. He screamed. I waited 10 seconds, walked back in, tried to lay him down (but he fights it and stands right up), told him it was time to go night-night, and walked out. I did the same thing 3 or 4 times and then just gave up trying to lay him down and left him standing. He's screaming and crying constantly. It's making him madder every time I walk in and then walk out. I've seriously never heard him scream so furiously. After a few minutes he throws his blanket, pillow and all stuffed animals in the floor, and continues to just stand there and scream and cry for Mommy (and occasionally, Daddy, since mean old Mommy won't get him out.) He's kicking the crib, hitting his crib aquarium, and grabbing at me and sometimes pinching if he manages to touch me when I walk in, pat and tell night night, walk out.
Am I doing this right? I just don't see him ever stopping crying, laying down, or going to sleep at this point. I'm planning to keep it up until the 2-hour naptime is over, which gives me another half hour of it. At that point, I'll get him up like nothing had happened, and he will have only gotten a little catnap in the car. Is that okay? Then we'll try it all again tonight?
