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[quote=Anonymous]My almost 4 year old has gone through stages of sleeping really well (going to bed easily / staying in bed all night) and stages where he cries out for more things at bedtime or during the night. The previous bad stages resolved themselves in a couple weeks and I just chalked them up to a brief phase. We've in a particularly bad one right now though of 2 months with getting out of bed multiple times after I tuck him in and multiple times during the night with some "need". He claims to have to poop and will try to force out a poop (he doesn't wipe himself yet), claims his stomach hurts, that he's "scared and lonely", etc etc - all things i'd want to be responsive to in a normal phase but now am just totally get played by. i don't want to lock him in his room - the few times i've drawn a line like that he works himself into a full panic attack and vomiting when he's not usually a throw a huge fit type of kid. He also wakes up his 2 siblinds which makes everything so much worse. I've tried "you can have a treat with breakfast" but that doesn't seem to be enough of an incentive this time. Other ideas?[/quote]
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