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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine will turn 4 in October, too. She sleeps about 12 hours a night and takes a 2-hour nap every day.[/quote]

Sounds great.

Does she have a lot of physical activities?

How do you encourage this schedule?, tell us your secret.[/quote]

I want to ask this PP if she actually watches her child on a monitor to see if she's sleeping. Our video monitor broke when my daughter was about a year old, and we didn't get another video monitor until we had a baby when DD was 2.5. We set up the camera in her room and realized a lot of the time she was just quietly playing with stuffed animals, rolling around in bed, etc., but a lot of the time I thought she was sleeping.[/quote]

This is the original PP. No, we don’t have a monitor anymore, but we can hear if she’s up and playing.

No real secret; she just enjoys sleep. The only thing I’d say is that during the night (so between 8pm-8am) we have never gone in unless she’s really upset. That’s been the case ever since she stopped nursing at night. She knows that’s the nighttime. We also lock her door from the outside, per her pediatrician’s guidance, so she stays in her room. [/quote]

Okay, well, I'm telling you my daughter was also playing and I couldn't hear it. She also stays in her room and doesn't come out, and she's been sleeping through the night since 4 months. If you read either Ferber or Weissbluth, one of them talks about how parents who think their older toddlers/preschoolers are sleeping 12 hrs at night and 2 hrs during the day actually probably have children who are quietly awake for part of that time and they don't know it. If your 4 yo actually sleeps for for 14 out of 24 hrs, you have a VERY high sleep needs child - not really a guideline other parents need to follow or aspire to.[/quote]

I’m not getting your point here. I never said anyone should “aspire” to what my kid is doing. Even if she is playing quietly for awhile, why is it a problem? She’s not upset. You seem to have an axe to grind here.[/quote]

Because OP is asking how much your kids SLEEP. You stated that your daughter SLEEPS 12 hrs at night and 2 hrs at naptime, and someone else commented saying they wanted to know how you "encourage" this. And I'm just trying to point out, for the benefit of that person asking how you "encourage" this, that your daughter might very well not be actually asleep that whole time. Just like I thought my own daughter was asleep 12 hrs at night and 2 hrs at naptime and then I got a video monitor and realized she wasn't actually asleep that whole time. The thread is not about keeping children in their room, it's about sleeping.[/quote]

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