Originally Posted by
cjblair
Put my 3yo (almost 4) daughter into a real bed last week. First couple nights were perfect, went right to sleep and didn't come out of her room til her awake light came on.
ffwd to last night, she went to sleep fine, but spent the hours of 1:45-3:45am getting up every 5-10 min to open her door and check the hallway or play pretend games with imaginary things flying around her room and "letting them out of the door". Anyone have any tips and tricks for getting a kid to stay in their room (short of locking the door from the outside)? I don't really expect her to sleep perfectly all night quite yet, but at least want her to stay in her room. I don't want her waking my 1yo up... or my wife, as she gets miserable when she doesn't sleep.
We've already tried bribing with gifts in the morning if she stays, sticker chart to work towards a big gift, threatening to cancel fun activities the next day. She just dgaf, calls our bluff on everything.