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[quote=Anonymous]I fully empathize.  Sleep issues are hard.

Mine now share a room and it helped a lot with our sleep issues with the older one.  DS is almost 5, DD just turned 3.  They've been sharing for a year and they love it.  They're allowed to read and chat quietly but have to stay in their beds.   I generally a lot for 30 min or so of unwind time where they read and talk.  If that goes on too late, I go in and tell them no talking and sometimes it escalates to threats.  Tonight's threat was if I heard another peep, they both had to take naps tomorrow.  That worked.

I try to stick to natural consequences.  So instead of taking away goody bags:
- if you don't sleep now, you're having forced nap/quiet time tomorrow
- If you don't sleep now you'll be cranky in the morning and we are not going to do (insert fun activity)
- If I hear anymore noise, bedtime is being moved earlier tomorrow because sleep is important.

I always follow through on these as well.

I also have the door setup where they cannot open it so they have to stay in their rooms.

I would also try moving bedtime earlier because being overtired does make it harder.

Good luck![/quote]

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