How to make your child sleep better in the night?

[firsttimemummy]

when is the best time to really train a child into goos sleeping habits?mine is jus 6 weeks ?m i being too kiasu?should i just let my baby b a baby? :roll:

[Kathong]

Hi schellen,


I think he naps too late too. but he would only comes back from sch at abt 12.30pm to 1.30pm. Maybe should let him nap earlier like 2pm to 4pm..?

thanks for your advice. Btw he will be joining childcare in end nov, hopeful all these issue will be solved.

Oh... the children at the childcare will nap from 1 to 3 pm. Hopefull this will work.

:celebrate:

[schellen]

Kathong:

Hi schellen,


I think he naps too late too. but he would only comes back from sch at abt 12.30pm to 1.30pm. Maybe should let him nap earlier like 2pm to 4pm..?

thanks for your advice. Btw he will be joining childcare in end nov, hopeful all these issue will be solved.

Oh... the children at the childcare will nap from 1 to 3 pm. Hopefull this will work.

:celebrate:

Yes, 2-4pm is good at home. We used to do that too when we got back after lunch after enrichment. Childcare will generally stick to 1-3pm for naptime as teatime is usually about 3-3:30pm, otherwise the children will get hungry. Childcare will help to \"train\" him, I guess. Hopefully, he listens and obeys more easily when it's someone (not a relative) in a person of authority, and the childcare should not have TV on its schedule, except maybe in the last hour/half-hour of the day, when there are few children left waiting to be picked up. Maybe he'll be weaned off his addiction to TV. Good luck!

[happychick]

wow ! thanks everyone for sharing their experiences !!

can someone help with my "problem" ?

DD (4Yo) gets back from Nursery at 12noon. She will try to eat and bath but will refuse to sleep - i think this stemmed from last yr when i placed her in childcare and they "forced" her to nap from 1 - 3pm. Apparently, she wld kick up a big fuss (uhhh, now i’m making her sound like a ill behaved kid : ) and not nap - she eventually would lay down on her mattress (in Childcare) when everyone was sleeping.
I’ve since taken her out of CC, and she comes back home every afternoon. She will drink her milk (2 bottles sometimes) and do colouring, cutting, playing in the sitting room quietly but NOT SLEEP !!!
Should i be concerned ? She wld go to bed at abt 9 - 10 plus and sleep till 7 in the mornings - undisrupted so i think she gets a good nights rest.
i’m in two minds about quitting work and staying home to try to get her into a routine.

[tutormum]

My 3 DS never take naps since they were toddlers but sleep at about 930pm to wake up at 6 or 630am when they need to go school the next day. Otherwise, they’ll sleep later and wake up later. They sleep very well at night. I believe that as long as they have the required amount of sleep which is minimum 8 hours, and function well in the day, they don’t need the nap.