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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They requested to share a room because they were scared and alone at night. Switching them back to different rooms isn’t an option. Please don’t suggest it.

This is also a question about behavior, not sleep. They wake up early, yes, but I want to focus on behavior and not sleep info.

We have charts up: sit quietly, wait for the green light, then play quietly until we come in. We rehearse and talk about it. There are NO toys in the room, just books. We have a “stop sign” on our door so they stop waking us up.  It’s not a crazy amount of time for them to sit and wait. 15 minutes. They love to sit and read so this isn’t absurd for them.

The PROBLEM...
One child wakes up early and wakes up the other. It varies which boy wakes up day by day. We aren’t sure, and can’t get a clear answer. This results in someone barging upstairs “Bob woke me up!”  “Bob was talking! Tom was talking!” They blame each other. This escalates to SCREAMING...if they don’t come get us, they just sit in the room and scream “go back to sleep!” And eventually start physically fighting.

We’ve tried threats: “if you wake up before the light is green and make noise then you lose a toy/time out, etc”. We have visual reminders. We talk to them: please don’t wake up your brother. Sit and wait quietly. No silly talk.

We beg. We plead.

They don’t listen to each other. If Tom asks Bob to stop talking and go back to sleep, he won’t. It just escalates.

We are absolutely at our wits end.

How do you manage this?! We are so tired of the screaming, and having terrible mornings is a terrible way to start the day.[/quote]

Have you thought of wearing them out more so they don't wake up early?  Giving them a later bedtime?[/quote]

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