Please help me get my toddler to sleep

[~TT40~]

We moved Spock to her own room about 17ish months, in her own room she went in a single bed. It too easily 3 months for her to stay in bed, still a bit random if she goes to sleep after 10mins or 1 hour, but she knows now that it is bed time and to stay in bed etc. I did the same thing, every night. The exact same thing. Right down to my words. Consistency is the key, but like I said it still took months. Took months for her to stop screaming, and another month for her to stop getting out of bed. We would dinner and bath and story then me and her go to her room for some nigh night milk, then I oils put her to bed and say I love you, good night and kiss her and kiss her teddy etc... Then sit on the futon until she was asleep. If she got up I would just lay her back down. Occasionally if she was just fighting it I would tell her to go to sleep and shhh from the chair. (Mind she has never been in the cot except when it is side cared to our bed and only has three sides.)
I started a thread somewhere about our battles and there were lots of fantastic tips in there from the girls.

Now though, you say good night and she orders you to 'sit couch!' And if she wakes up and we are still awake she comes out and yells as us for not being on the couch and orders us to 'SIT!' It's actually very cute...

[AlligatorsMum]

Glad it helped a little mummaT. I hope it gets better and better for u.

But like the others said, if you need to just put back in the for. We didn't cuz we needed the for for the newborn coming and I didn't want to be doing ds1 translation as well as dealing with a newborn. We still get wake ups occasionally but the night time is usually fairly quick.

[trishalishous]

I wont stay in the room if they arent laying nice and still.
But I boob mr 18 months to sleep, and will be until he weans.