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Parenting Solutions for Your Family ...
SITUATION: Our daughter is three, but usually ends up sleeping with us all night. I have tried everything, but nothing seems to help. She will come into our room and say she is scared. I put her back in her room, but it does not help.
SOLUTION: Your child is manipulating you! She knows that she will be able to sleep with you, so nothing you do will make any difference. Think WE! What is best for the family? It is obvious it is better for both you and the child that she sleep in her own bed. Set the WE boundary and decided that for the best of all concerned, she will not sleep in your bed anymore. Smile, look directly at her and say to the child, “It is best for us that you stay in your bed, so that is what is going to happen from now on.” The child will hear the firmness in your voice and with your WE resolve; she will not sleep with you anymore. She will try to manipulate by acting scared or crying, but once she knows that the WE is firm, she will be happier!
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