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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually think life is better if you go to them when they need you. That puts the power with you, particularly around AM wake up time. And this is easy to do around 3, that’s when we transitioned out of cribs for our kids.

We got an okay to wake clock. Set it to red as a nightlight. Then it turns green at 7:30am (or whatever time you’re usually getting her up). When the light is red, you stay in bed. We told them if they got up when the light was red, that told us they weren’t ready to sleep in a big kid bed, and we’d put the side back on the crib. We even left the side of the crib against the wall in their room for a month or so. Our first has never stepped a toe out of bed when the light was red. Our second got up - the first two mornings, we walked her right back to bed with a warning (you gotta keep a CLOSE eye on the monitor at first). After the third time, we put the side back on the crib. Two months later we tried again and she’s never gotten out on red since.

If they need us, they call us and we go to them. Much less frequently, I’m sure, then if they had the freedom to come to us whenever the want. Oldest is 6 and that’s still what we do.

Safety wise - I think you either need a gate or to lock her in at night until you are confident she can navigate the stairs while sleepy (prob age 4/5ish). [/quote]

How did you handle night training with these parameters? They'd call you and you'd take them to the bathroom?

Our kid did really well when we started potty training many months ago, but we didn't cross the bridge of the nighttime part because of this room/stairs issue. Our attempts at gating the stairs all failed (particularly weird row house setup) so we ended up with gate directly at the door, no access to the hall. But this discussion is reminding me we'll want to address that in near future as kiddo has been asking about not wearing a diaper for naps and is increasingly testing/fighting/questioning why it's needed at bedtime.[/quote]

PP here. We started with naps, well after (at least a year) good habits had been established around the toddler bed and obeying the red light. We put the little potty right next to their bed (with a roll of TP for our daughter) and told them they could get up to pee and get right back in bed. They’ve had no problem with this. Same at night now for one of them, again no problem. The bathroom is close to the bedroom so I don’t anticipate that being a tough transition, but we’re in no rush. [/quote]

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