How many of you have kids?

[basslover34]

Personally have the same problem... but it's not a problem with the kid it's a problem with "MOMMY" she refuses to allow our son to cry to go to sleep and brings him to bed with her everynight so he's 2 now and absoluty refuses to sleep by himself if his mother is in the house and she complains about why is he an arm baby... I don't get it and doesn't beleive that SHE is the Problem... when she goes away on business he's the Perfect little boy that cleans his room, eats without throwing his food, goes to sleep BY HIMSELF... when I'm not in the house OMFG...

I have no idea how to retrain my wife ... the kid I got no problem LOL

P.S. the "stop your whinning and close your eyes" speach works for me

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

Same here bud, I feel your pain. He's completely obedient, but the second mom's home complaints start left and right - usually through a whiney voice from his room because he knows I'll just tell him to quit whining if he does it in front of me, haha.

 

[basslover34]

Same here bud, I feel your pain. He's completely obedient, but the second mom's home complaints start left and right - usually through a whiney voice from his room because he knows I'll just tell him to quit whining if he does it in front of me, haha.

damn mothers... now I know why they say that we can blame all of our adult problems on our mothers LOL

 

[Ang]

Neither, he's using it as an excuse to get attention from his mother. While I know the issue of him waking up is genuine - and he was probably scared at first from seeing Resident Evil (idiot friend). Now it's become a routine for him - to where she goes into his room every time he wakes up and spends 15 minutes at a time with him. I keep telling her she needs to just go to the door and tell him to go to sleep then close the door but she's too much of a mom, haha.

I think the problem is it's been going on so long now that it's part of his routine, hopefully school will remedy it.

you hit the nail on the head. The mom is the problem here. Bless her heart, she just loves him..But she's not helping him.

You just need to sit down and talk with her about it

 

[nativelover]

my step brother slept in the parents room on the floor till he was like 13... always scared of the dark adn little noises...

my dad always told me to shut up and go to sleep... so i never really cared about anything when it was bedtime... except the time a cat jumped at the window and i jumped outta bed and almost shat myself... lol

 

[Miguel]

Leave the kids be. Let them be kids, because they'll soon grow up and then there's no more of it and we'll wish they would still need us...

heheh life is a ***** and then you die.

 

[Ang]

Leave the kids be. Let them be kids, because they'll soon grow up and then there's no more of it and we'll wish they would still need us...

heheh life is a ***** and then you die.

haha

thats easy to say when you're not being woken up at 1 am everyday.


or maybe you do get woken up at 1am every day and dont mind?? i would go nuts.

 

[bigspizz]

I have it figured out...Part of their ability to "sneak" in the room, depends on dad being sleep. Stay up for a few nights, or weeks in my case, but it will be worth it...My son just likes to sleep with his mom, my daughter always says she has night mares.....For my son, it was tough, but just ushering him back to his room with a hug and kiss over and over and over did the trick...With my girl, I had to let her know that NOTHING can or will get past daddy....I check every noise I hear from their room, and if they have just woke up, I quickly comfort them before they even wake up....Now they both just sleep in their room. They never get up anymore...

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

Ugh I did that for 3 nights, taking him back to bed while mom slept, it just made it worse, he started getting up every 20 minutes expecting her to be at the door...now we lock the door so he has to knock, but it doesn't always wake me up.

I'm hoping school will help to wear all this energy out, I can't do a lot with him because I'm disabled - so I'm not as physically active as he is.

 

[bigspizz]

you hit the nail on the head. The mom is the problem here. Bless her heart, she just loves him..But she's not helping him.

You just need to sit down and talk with her about it

Miguels kids are all grown up now...He wishes he had these "issues" to deal with still...(He is warning us young parents to take nothing for granted, and appreciate the fact that these soon to be adults need us at all!!!)