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Offline Melsy

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Teaching him to play quietly in the mornings?
« on: September 20, 2007, 05:59:03 am »
Ok, we have had not much luck with fixing the early wakings.  >:( 

He is usually up for the day somewhere between 5.45am and 6am.  But, during the day his behaviour is fine and he is easy to put to bed at night etc. so probably that is just his natural bio-rythym or whatever!!

I recently got my dad to put a round door knob on his door (used to have a lever type one - WAY too easy to get out of his room) and a door knob cover.  I took his toy box out of his room for the minute - when he gets mad he TRASHES his room and just left his books and some cars and his car mat with roads on etc.

How do I encourage him to play quietly in his room until a more reasonable hour, say 6.30am when DH time to get up for work??  He has been pretty good about it since we put the cover on his door two days ago but he lies there SHOUTING out to us to come get him.   :-\  I need him to know its ok if he wants to wake at that time and I won't force him to stay in bed or go back to sleep, mummy will be in soon to get you but until then, you can read books and play with your cars quietly until its time to get up.  I guess just patience and time and he will come to understand??

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Re: Teaching him to play quietly in the mornings?
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2007, 09:31:36 am »
Is his bedroom light or dark at this stage.  We went / still go through this with Matthew.  When he was nearer 3  we got up, said that the clock was still saying number 6 so mummy and daddy are still sleeping.  We have dimmer switch on his light and we simply turned the light on and said it's OK to play.

Now that he is older, he has a clock on the wall and we have been showing him where the little hand is when mummy and daddy get up (or would like to get up :)).  He now has a touch sensitive bedside light so he has control over switching on to see. 

Also, during the week, he knows that mummy and daddy wake up when the radio comes on.  If he insists on coming into bed with us, then we tell him that he has to lie there quietly until the radio comes on (cheeky ££$% sometimes switches the radio on for us and tells us time to get up - but it is only 10 mins or so before its due to go on !!)

any help?

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