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[quote=Anonymous]Tell him to stay in his room and quietly entertain himself until the time you designate it's ok to get up. Our now 4 year old learned to do this around 3, he had to learn that skill and we would gently reinforce it, but basically it's a great skill to learn anyways on how to entertain yourself when nobody wants to play. He gets cars, stuffies, dinosaurs etc and then just usually lays on the floor doing his thing with his toys. He knows how to come check our phones for the time and let us know when it's time to wake up! He doesn't use screens during this time. It took some time but he learned. You mentioned he doesn't have any toys in his room, maybe have him help you put together a toy box that will be in his room for this purpose. My DS would go through spurts of getting up way too early, and then he'd make up for it later with sleeping in later for a few weeks. We just rolled with it. We didn't always love it, you can encourage them to sleep during the times you want them to but ultimately you can't force it![/quote]

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