'Kids have to learn to sleep though noise'

[jellybean88]

I was told that and I did that I had vacuum and tv going and talking and ds would sleep anywhere but since 6 months he has needed a quiet place to sleep so for me it made no difference

[Chocaholic]

I agree that common courtesy should be in play (i.e. no yelling). However I also used to vacuum and clean around them when they were younger as that was the only time I could do it.

My oldest is not a great sleeper. At 6, we still co-sleep as he needs someone to touch during the night. I will often get a hand on my arm or face during the night. If he doesn't feel me (or someone), then he wakes up. However, he will sleep through noise.

My youngest can sleep through anything including a fire engine using our driveway to turn around with lights and sirens blasting away.

Children deserve as much respect as everyone else and are never "just" anything.

[shellbell3]

I can see where you're coming from. I didn't expect total silence for my kids but just respectful not to scream and shout outside there room. Like u said who would do that if they knew an adult was in there.
I'm such a light sleeper I would slap someone screaming outside my door!

[onthefly]

It's a difficult attitude to get past, yeah.

[nickle730]

I think it is fair to expect people to not be deliberately noisy when your kids are sleeping, but it is unreasonable to expect them not to make normal noise because your kids have gone to bed. So no yelling outside the door to their room, but the telly on at normal volume is fine, as is having a conversation at normal volume. I would not expect any different if the person sleeping was an adult.

[*Efjay*]

I think general lving noise is fine. But loud unexpected startling noise is different. No matter how sound a sleeper someone is, a sudden loud noise like yelling is likely to wake you up.

I would vacuum, TV, etc with sleeping kids. But I would also tell my children to be quiet while the baby slept. Which simply meant don't go running & playing outside the bedrroom door.

[~ Mylitta ~]

I think it's common courtesy and respect to lower your volume level when anyone is sleeping, regardless of age. Most kids will sleep through background noise, but sudden loud noises will usually wake anyone. An adult could probably just fall back to sleep, but babies and kids don't rebound from startle quite so easily.

I was surprised that my youngest slept through the festivities at my parents house on Christmas day because their house is long and thin so there is no room "out of the way" for her to sleep in. All the rooms are right off the corridor that people go back and forth down. Even my other two kids were going up and down it with rolling toys (on a tile floor *sigh*). I didn't warn everyone she was sleeping though and I think my family would have made an effort to be quieter if I had asked

[MummyNaomi]

DD will sleep through most noise (having an older brother will do that for you), but doors slamming wake her everytime. Our Toilet is next to her room and on Christmas Day I stuck a sticky note on the toilet day that simply said "Please close this door softly while A is sleeping". FIL just let is slam while I was in her room resettling her, then MIL commented that she didn't sleep for long - Grrrrr

I don't expect total silence either, but a bit of courtesy not to deliberately be loud wouldn't go astray.....

[chody47]

I agree with the previous posters that say basic common courtesy of not making loud, sudden noises when kids are asleep is an acceptable thing to ask for. When I am at home and people are over when DD is settling off to sleep I will ask that they be a bit quiet (as I do) whilst they are settling, but once she is asleep she generally stays that way unless there is a very loud noise (or she's finished her sleep).