Bed time for a 2.4 year old

Hi Simone, my daughter is a similar age and she goes to bed between 7-7.30pm and wakes around 6am. She has an afternoon nap at 1ish. I don't think it's uncommon for kids to find it harder to get to sleep with the long days. What time is his afternoon nap? Could it be that it's a bit late in the day?

Spencer is normally in bed by 6.45pm, he sometimes goes to sleep straight away and other times is chatting to himself for about an hour before dropping off. We had some trouble about a month ago with him either keep coming out of his room or getting out of bed and playing in his room so I took all his toys out of his room and closed the door on him if he got out of bed. After a couple of days he realised it was better to stay in bed and have the door left open.

You could try putting him down for his nap earlier so he had more awake hours before going back to bed at night, and sitting in with him reading a story until he has settled down might help him then go to sleep (if you don't already do that). I find sometimes when Spencer is really tired he is too tired to settle, but if I read for a while he ends up calming down and laying down and then he will settle, but if I leave him too it he will get in and out of bed or start jumping off his bed or using it as a trampoline etc and he doesn't wind down.

Daniel is in bed between 7-7:30 and generally awake at 630, doesn't seem to matter what time he goes to bed he always wakes at that time. He sometimes has a nap but its less than 2hrs if he does unless sick.

During summer Ella normally goes to bed between 7-7.30 (in winter it ends up between 6.30-7), but she lies in bed chattering away to herself for up to an hr. At first it drove me nuts, but now (after doing a post here on it), I just ignore her and let her be (although the other day I checked on her just before going to bed, to discover that sometime during the chattering she had gotten out of bed, taken off her PJs and night nappy and put on her old clothes and knickers and gone back to sleep).

yeah it was cute the first night Nikki, and then last night she did the same thing so I had to change her again before bed and then she did it again during the night (which i didn't know about) so we woke up this morning to a very wet bed (and blankie). She was quite upset about her blankie getting wet, so hopefully she won't do that again

 

Ella is also getting better at handling later nights and is quite happy to party the night away until she is put to bed.