How to Get Your Kids to Sleep in
If you think 7am on a Saturday or Sunday is sleeping in, I can help.
My son is either a sleepwalker or a very light sleeper.
At least a couple of times a night he will wander into our bedroom looking for a threesome with mom and dad. That was cute when he was 3 and 4, but now that he’s 5, we’re over it.
He’s just too big, and while my wife and I get squished off to the side, he starfishes in the middle and snores away.
That’s about to change thanks to the best ever birthday gift.
Once your kids can recognize numbers, you can train them to sleep in by simply getting them their own digital alarm clock.
So for his 5th birthday Zacharie was given one. Just a basic cheap $15 one that has a radio and tells the time. He loves it. He’s been running around and telling us the time all day.
“It’s Four! Two! Two!”
The rule is he’s not allowed to get out of his bed until the first number is a 7. He came and knocked on my shoulder this morning around 4, I reminded him of the rule and he shuffled back to his own bed.
It’s not perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction.
How do you keep your kids in their own beds? Do you put clocks in their room and teach them to tell time?
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Target sells a digital clock that has different colors for each number. My son knows that we dont get out of bed until “Green 7″…because he used to see any 7 and dart out of bed
Awesome.
We got the slightly pricey but cute one that changes color when it’s time to get up. It’s got a button to teach him how to read time, and both digital and analog displays. My son just turned 4 and the extra nightlight isn’t a bad thing, so I decided to splurge for the cool clock that will grow with him. It’s worked like a charm.
We bought the one that looks like a small traffic light. Goes from red to green when you set the alarm, and the yellow light can be a nightlight or just left off. So far it seems to work, except we had to tell him it was okay to get up and go potty if he had to when the light was still red.