~*Mrs. GM2
Hey all, as you know, Christmas is coming up and I have no idea what to give my 2 year old daughter for Christmas. What are are some toys that your toddlers absolutely love to play with? I just want to give my daughter something that she will really like and that she will play with for awhile..... any suggestions? Thanks a bunch in advance! God bless!
Answer
play kitchen and pots and pans and play food
www.step2.com has some neat kitchens
cool sit on spinny thing...they sit on it and twirl the middle thing with their hands and the spin in circles..i loved those
big legos are always fun
ranger rick has an animal baby book/magazine subscription for a year
wagon
cleaning toys..my son loves my vacuum and he tries to help me clean
little people..my son loves the zoo, circus and pirate ship
play kitchen and pots and pans and play food
www.step2.com has some neat kitchens
cool sit on spinny thing...they sit on it and twirl the middle thing with their hands and the spin in circles..i loved those
big legos are always fun
ranger rick has an animal baby book/magazine subscription for a year
wagon
cleaning toys..my son loves my vacuum and he tries to help me clean
little people..my son loves the zoo, circus and pirate ship
how to get my toddler out of my bed and into her own.?
closure
I am trying to stop something I know I shouldn't have started. Here's the story:
My husband and I had just moved into a new home and he was just starting a new job on a midnight shift so me and my 1 year old would be home alone. I didn't want to make her sleep alone and frankly I didn't want to sleep alone either, so I let her sleep in my bed every night. Now that my husband has switched his shift and now works in the morning and my daughter is 2 now, I can't get her to sleep in her own bed. I also feel bad that she has to get booted out now that daddy's home. My daughter is refusing to sleep in her room, probably because she has never slept in it before. My husband is refusing to sleep in the bed as long as there are 3 of us in it. So he has given me an ultimatum, either make our daughter sleep in her own bed or he sleeps on the couch. How do I get her to sleep in her own big girl bed and get my husband back into my bed.
Answer
First of all many parents feel better having there baby or toddler sleeping with them or at least sleeping in the same room, one popular reason is so they don't have the bedtime fights and 2 to get some real sleep!
Seeing she's only 2 years old, she is still way young enough to teach her to sleep in her own bedroom! Many fathers don't like the babies and toddlers in there bed, one is they can't have there fun with mommy anytime they want and 2 if it's a girl toddler, they don't feel comfortable at all! And that's natural!
But as far as training your toddler daughter, you have to do it in so called baby steps, first you must set up her room with all the things she really likes, then teach her to play in her room with all her toys etc. Don't allow her to play with her toys anywhere else! Once you get her trained to that, then getting her to sleep in her own bed will be a lot easier!
To get her to sleep in her own bed without all the fighting and hassles, Set the bedroom floor up with a blow up mattress, a full size one if there's room, if not a twin will work fine! Then for about a week, the 2 of you can sleep on the blow up mattress in her room ( you and her) Let her use her own blankets and pillow and have her stuffed animal with her, and have a night light on in her room and a radio on low! And be sure to close the bedroom door, so that she will know when the door is closed it's sleep time!
After about a week, start just letting her stay up later until she falls a sleep on the couch or on floor on her own! Then when she has been sleeping a while, then put her in her room on the blow up mattress, with the night light on and radio on low! Do that for about 3 days, then the 4 rd day take the blow up mattress out and put a chair in there so when you put her in her own bed, you can sit in her room for a few minutes, to reassure her that she's not alone! Read a book or magazine until you feel it's ok to leave the room ( most kids do well with like opera music or soft music,no rock and roll! But keep the night light on and the radio on low! If she gets up in the middle of the night, go in there and sit on the chair next to her bed to let her know your right there! Then when she goes back to sleep, you can leave the room again and go back to bed! Just keep going through the process to get her to catch on! But do not lose your cool with her or you will make matters worse! Praise her and reassure her it's ok!
After she makes it through the time she is too sleep, the next morning praise her for doing so good in sleeping in her own bed, tell her she's a big girl now and that your very happy and proud of her! Never lose your cool if it takes a while! Your better off training her at her speed, the better the results and happiness for all!
Fighting with toddlers at bedtime, only makes matters worse! And they not be, the battles only get worse when forcing straight bedtime! How you train her is how well everyone gets to sleep at night nicely! You need to have patients and willing to make it work the right way! Bedtime for too many, is a huge battle! But parents make it a battle not the toddler! They dread being a lone, and it's natural! You could get one of those room monitors too if you don't have one, so when you do go to bed, you will hear everything in her room! and can respond fast to make her feel mommy will be there when she needs her, because she's scared or what ever!
The night light and radio low at night will help her feel more safer in her room! And would be very helpful all the way up to the age around 5 years old, then the radio can be removed if you don't want it in there anymore, but the night light should always be in there, because it helps not having bed wetters!
Most bed wetters are caused because the child don't like the dark and won't get out of there bed to go to the bathroom! And having a night light in the bathroom when the child can go on there own helps a great deal too! Children just hate darkness, so avoiding it does wonders for training to sleep a lone and great for avoiding bed wetters!
It's always a lot better to get a child really sleepy before bedtime, about an hour before sleep time, play a lot with her, tire her out! And sleep time will last a lot longer! If a toddler has a lot of energy at sleep time, it will almost always be a long night! Or very tired parents! Power struggles will not cure anything, it just makes things worse! If normally you have nap time during the day, cutting that out of the everyday schedule will help training a lot more easier too! At least during the bed training time!
If she gets too crabby without the day time nap, then cut the nap shorter, because you have to have her tired at bed time! For the training to work faster and easier! Keeping her up later will make a big difference too! Many parents put there toddlers to bed way to early, 7-8 pm is too early unless the child is tired! If there's battles, that's one of the reasons! When training toddlers to bedtime, it should be at a later time then 8 pm, especially during the bedtime training! 9 pm should be the earliest to have way better success! There will be less fighting and the child will be tired! So a lot less fussing!
Teaching a child that bedtime is pleasurable instead of a war! Life will be very pleasant at bedtime for all! Sure there will be fusses some nights when the child is plain not tired, but you can avoid them by finding ways to tire them out before bedtime! Toddlers have a lot of energy, more then parents even realize, except when sick or just not feeling up to par!
Toddlers are not like a clock, trying to set there sleep time is almost impossible if there plainly not tired! And that 's what causes all the problems at bedtime, knowing what tires them out, is the secret to a great success! Putting them to bed at a certain time like 7- 8 pm is not there sleep time clock, that's yours, trying to force onto them to free up your time! That is the worse way to train a child to sleep, it will cause fussing and battles! And very unhappy toddlers and parents!
First of all many parents feel better having there baby or toddler sleeping with them or at least sleeping in the same room, one popular reason is so they don't have the bedtime fights and 2 to get some real sleep!
Seeing she's only 2 years old, she is still way young enough to teach her to sleep in her own bedroom! Many fathers don't like the babies and toddlers in there bed, one is they can't have there fun with mommy anytime they want and 2 if it's a girl toddler, they don't feel comfortable at all! And that's natural!
But as far as training your toddler daughter, you have to do it in so called baby steps, first you must set up her room with all the things she really likes, then teach her to play in her room with all her toys etc. Don't allow her to play with her toys anywhere else! Once you get her trained to that, then getting her to sleep in her own bed will be a lot easier!
To get her to sleep in her own bed without all the fighting and hassles, Set the bedroom floor up with a blow up mattress, a full size one if there's room, if not a twin will work fine! Then for about a week, the 2 of you can sleep on the blow up mattress in her room ( you and her) Let her use her own blankets and pillow and have her stuffed animal with her, and have a night light on in her room and a radio on low! And be sure to close the bedroom door, so that she will know when the door is closed it's sleep time!
After about a week, start just letting her stay up later until she falls a sleep on the couch or on floor on her own! Then when she has been sleeping a while, then put her in her room on the blow up mattress, with the night light on and radio on low! Do that for about 3 days, then the 4 rd day take the blow up mattress out and put a chair in there so when you put her in her own bed, you can sit in her room for a few minutes, to reassure her that she's not alone! Read a book or magazine until you feel it's ok to leave the room ( most kids do well with like opera music or soft music,no rock and roll! But keep the night light on and the radio on low! If she gets up in the middle of the night, go in there and sit on the chair next to her bed to let her know your right there! Then when she goes back to sleep, you can leave the room again and go back to bed! Just keep going through the process to get her to catch on! But do not lose your cool with her or you will make matters worse! Praise her and reassure her it's ok!
After she makes it through the time she is too sleep, the next morning praise her for doing so good in sleeping in her own bed, tell her she's a big girl now and that your very happy and proud of her! Never lose your cool if it takes a while! Your better off training her at her speed, the better the results and happiness for all!
Fighting with toddlers at bedtime, only makes matters worse! And they not be, the battles only get worse when forcing straight bedtime! How you train her is how well everyone gets to sleep at night nicely! You need to have patients and willing to make it work the right way! Bedtime for too many, is a huge battle! But parents make it a battle not the toddler! They dread being a lone, and it's natural! You could get one of those room monitors too if you don't have one, so when you do go to bed, you will hear everything in her room! and can respond fast to make her feel mommy will be there when she needs her, because she's scared or what ever!
The night light and radio low at night will help her feel more safer in her room! And would be very helpful all the way up to the age around 5 years old, then the radio can be removed if you don't want it in there anymore, but the night light should always be in there, because it helps not having bed wetters!
Most bed wetters are caused because the child don't like the dark and won't get out of there bed to go to the bathroom! And having a night light in the bathroom when the child can go on there own helps a great deal too! Children just hate darkness, so avoiding it does wonders for training to sleep a lone and great for avoiding bed wetters!
It's always a lot better to get a child really sleepy before bedtime, about an hour before sleep time, play a lot with her, tire her out! And sleep time will last a lot longer! If a toddler has a lot of energy at sleep time, it will almost always be a long night! Or very tired parents! Power struggles will not cure anything, it just makes things worse! If normally you have nap time during the day, cutting that out of the everyday schedule will help training a lot more easier too! At least during the bed training time!
If she gets too crabby without the day time nap, then cut the nap shorter, because you have to have her tired at bed time! For the training to work faster and easier! Keeping her up later will make a big difference too! Many parents put there toddlers to bed way to early, 7-8 pm is too early unless the child is tired! If there's battles, that's one of the reasons! When training toddlers to bedtime, it should be at a later time then 8 pm, especially during the bedtime training! 9 pm should be the earliest to have way better success! There will be less fighting and the child will be tired! So a lot less fussing!
Teaching a child that bedtime is pleasurable instead of a war! Life will be very pleasant at bedtime for all! Sure there will be fusses some nights when the child is plain not tired, but you can avoid them by finding ways to tire them out before bedtime! Toddlers have a lot of energy, more then parents even realize, except when sick or just not feeling up to par!
Toddlers are not like a clock, trying to set there sleep time is almost impossible if there plainly not tired! And that 's what causes all the problems at bedtime, knowing what tires them out, is the secret to a great success! Putting them to bed at a certain time like 7- 8 pm is not there sleep time clock, that's yours, trying to force onto them to free up your time! That is the worse way to train a child to sleep, it will cause fussing and battles! And very unhappy toddlers and parents!
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