What is your toddlers bed time routine... in a big bed? PLEASE!!!!

[PinkPalace]

Do you have a night light?
do you leave the door open or close?

I think i will go back to dinner, bath , bed after DS was born - i would do bath first as it was easier to get it sorted but i wonder if they are too wakeafter?

[MamaPan]

i dont have a night light and we turn the light off...
i also make sure the light outside his room is off so that when i go out (ie open the door to leave) the light doesnt wake him up or get hiom away from his drowiness... (ie if the light streams in he tends to check i am still there even if he is just about to go to sleep)
we close his door (he can open it if he is trying to get out, but doesnt)
I have a monitor in there so i can hear everything with the door shut

for us having the bath as part of the winding down routine works well - he doesget hyper in there but we have always done it thatw ay so he knows what is coming next...

[Phteven]

dinner
bath
jim-jams
read books together
snuggle

[PinkPalace]

thanks girls
i think i will switch the dinner then bath.

I am going to go look for a special bed time book today with DD - she can help choose it and we can read it at night.

[MamaPan]

yep i let him choose the books and we have 'special' books thata re in his room just for bedtime. he has some favourites nd we also go to the library and pick one or 2 out every few weeks so he usually has one of the library ones and one of his special ones each night...

[Phteven]

Time for bed (Mem Fox) is a lovely bedtime book.

[PinkPalace]

Time for bed (Mem Fox) is a lovely bedtime book.

Thanks Bron! i will be looking hard.
we have one already which she loves - not speicifically a bedtime book - but it is about finding where dorothy has fallen asleep (she is in everyones bed etc)...

but i want a specific bed time ie this is what we do book lol

[MamaPan]

yep we have another mem fox bedtime book - i think it is sleepy bears or something like that.
we also have one called bigger than daddy which DH reads to him - it ends with being tucked up in bed...
he asks for diff ones from each of us...

[~*Niadalla*~]

Dinner
Bath (every second night)
Book
Bed

He can sometimes take an hour to get to sleep because he keeps getting up, but it's really dependant on when his day sleep finished, and that's dependant on when he woke in the morning, and that's dependant on when he went to sleep the night before... and so on and so on.
Some nights, he will get outof bed and we have the hour long struggle again. Not fun.