She's 2. Be strong, this too shall pass (or so I've heard). Though you can't reason with a two year old (usually), you can be firm in what is expected of her. Ugh....I dread age 2.
"A winker is a winker is a winker." -- mamabelle
This same thing happened to us!! It was a little before two, maybe a couple months before.
The midnight to 5 shift only lasted a couple weeks, but the fighting at bedtime and naptime continued until she was 30 or 31 months. Very bad times.
What ended the middle of the night fiasco was bringing her into our room. I had a small crib, but a pack & play would do - and I put it by my side of the bed (it was always me she wanted) and I would go back to sleep and so would she.
When she started climbing out of the crib (at 2 exactly!), I made her a nest on the floor next to my side. If I was worried about her running around, I probably would have set up a little kiddie single person tent there. But she seemed to be fine there.
As for the bedtime/naptime.
I started laying down with her at naptime (torture for me), but she's usually fall asleep in 5 or 10 minutes, and then I'd get back up.
At night time, we only had success when I started letting her sleep in the livingroom on the floor. Hubby would go down stairs and work or watch TV, and I'd sit and work on the computer in the dark until she fell asleep.
After a while this didn't work either - and bedtime was just a horrible thing in our house. Up to 3 hours of hysterical crying, destroying her room (stripped everything out of it), hurting herself, stripping naked - Oy!! Then one day, like 6+ months down the road, I put her in there, and she went to bed without a sound . . . and it's been good again ever since.
Nearly killed me though.
My advice - open your mind to options and find something that works to get her to sleep - as sleep is actually the most important thing for all involved, however you have to come by it.
Good luck.
N.
Eeeeeek Emanual, that one scared me.....6 months!!!
Keep the advise coming ladies1
Butler
Smile - It makes you feel better!
I am in the same boat. My daughter is 20 months and use to go to bed fine. She would give dad a kiss goodnight, go to the stairs and wait for me and then into bed we would go or rock until she fell asleep. Now, she gives him kisses, goes to the stairs but then cries if we get into bed or rock. I have her in a toddler bed and I refuse to put her in a crib since baby #2 will be here in Dec I don't want that habit started. Anyway, I have been shutting the lights down about 45 minutes before bed time and she knows what that means and cries and points to the lights. After she has calmed down I give her a glass of milk to drink and then a few minutes later go upstairs to bed. She does sometimes throw a fit but usually falls asleep w/ in a half hour and other times she goes right to sleep - but of course I have to be laying w/ her. Once she is alseep I put her into her own bed.
Welcome to my life :) j/k but seriously I am really struggling with my 2 year old as well, I mean he used to get a little mad when we woudl leave but got over it now he cries when we walk in the room and stays screaming for over 2 hours before we finally give up and take him out and put in my bed, sometimes if you sleep in his room until he falls asleep (only works for dad not me) then he gets up at 3 am and comes into my room.. I dont know what to do anymore I think it was from one movie he saw that scared him but thats just a theory
Interesting that all of us are having the same issue that the kids do and act differently for Mom and Dad. ie Dad can do something that they won't let Mom do. I wonder if they are seeing how far they can push us? Doesn't the cry sound like just shear panic!
Butler
Smile - It makes you feel better!
Yes the cry is awful! But it is funny how kids behave so differently for different parents..stinkers! I think its best when I just leave the house for bed time, easier on both of us :-) But i know that cant happen forever!
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I needs some advise!
My daughter is 2 years old (just turned 2)
Up until two days ago, I would say "Time for Nap/bed" and she would say OK and walk down the hall to her bedroom and try to climb into her crib. I would put her in there and she would say night night and go to sleep.
NOW she SCREAMS! She gets herself so worked up when we do go in to her, she won't even let us pick her up she just stands there and screams your name. If she is screaming for Dad and I go in she screams louder for Dad and will not let me near her (and vice versa)
My question: Is this some sort of "test". Has anyone gone through this? Will it pass? What did you do? HELP!
Monday night she woke up at 12:30 and was up until 3 until I finally let her get up and play. After a while I grabbed some books and then she fell asleep. Yesterday I tried to skip naptime hoping she would be tired at night but boy was she grumpy all day, so she needs a nap.