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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you need to rethink things. 6:30a is a reasonable time for a child to wake up, especially one that has been asleep since 7pm and still naps. By putting on the tv immediately you're sending him the message that he'll get tv if he wakes up early and my guess is it'll just get earlier if you don't nip it in the bud. You need to go to sleep earlier so you can get up with your 2.5 year old. That's a perfect time to have some "one on one" time with him, which may positively affect behavior in the long run. I agree to stop with the monster spray. You're essentially affirming to him that there are monsters out there and he should be afraid.

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I was just about to write the same thing. Waking up at 630 might seem horribly early to you, but if your DS goes to bed at 7/730 that's a good 11 hrs of sleep which is in the range of normal.

I know it sucks to get up at 630 (which relatively speaking isn't that bad), so embrace it and do stuff with him instead of plopping him in front of a screen. How about doing a puzzle together, or reading, or if you want to be lazy, have him color, buy him a cool sticker book or magnadoodle or something. I'm sure he would love the 1 on 1 attention from you.

Also, go easy on the water sippy up on his night stand. He might legitimately have to wake up 3x/night for peeing. Have you tried putting ice cubes in there instead as a way to limit, yet still have, water available?

I would save the screen time for quiet time. Encourage him to play independently for quiet time, but at 2.5 yr old don't be surprised if that doesn't work out too well. Not all kids do or can. Nothing wrong with an episode of PJ Masks for quiet time.[/quote]

I would love it if he actually slept 11 hours. He wakes up almost every hour between 11pm and 3am. That doesn't seem like good quality sleep to me. I don't mind the 6:30 wake up either but I'm exhausted with the wakeups at night. I go to bed by 9:30-10 because I also have to clean up and get dinner on the table and with the wakeups, I'm only sleeping straight through from 3-6:30am so even that extra hour until 7:30 before my youngest wakes up is a godsend. We do stuff together all day long- park, art activities, make cookies, go on nature walks, visit museums, etc. I try to structure our day like a preschool where we do an outside activity in the AM, come back for lunch and naps/quiet time, and than we are outside playing. 
I will try the ice cubes. I feel like maybe the water might be an issue and a big sleep crutch, he's always fallen asleep with a bottle of water and I think he does need to pee because he's drinking so much water. I gotta figure out how to break that habit. [/quote]

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