#191: Breaking Co-Sleeping Habit & Helping Preschooler Be More Independent in Play
Parenting Beyond Discipline
Erin Royer, MA Clinical Psychology, Child Development Specialist
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🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
How do you break the habits in sleeping and bedtime when they've been going on for years? Can you do it with little to no tears? Adding complication, this step-parent wants to know if it's even possible given co-sleeping is still happening in the other parent's home? Then, how do you help a preschooler become more independent in their play? A tired mom, is looking for a little more me time! Erin gives some tips on this too!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Your Village podcast, Parenting Beyond Discipline. |
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| 0:47.0 | Our questions today are about trying to break the co-sleeping habit and about developing |
| 0:51.8 | independent play skills in our young ones. I think a lot of parents are getting pretty worn out with the limited options and so much time at home, |
| 1:00.0 | so we're really wanting to and wondering how to develop some more independent play during these times. |
| 1:06.0 | First question. |
| 1:08.0 | Hi, Erin. My boyfriend is divorced and has a three-year-old daughter. She comes to stay with us every other weekend on Friday and Saturday. Since she was born, she has been sleeping in the same bed as her mom. At first, when she came to stay with us, we'd have her sleep with us too because she was about one and we figured her mom would switch her to her own bed soon. She has not. Fast forward two years later, and my boyfriend and I |
| 1:29.3 | are no longer able to sleep when she stays with us because she kicks and has to have her hands or |
| 1:33.2 | legs or something touching us, and this is a king-sized bed. We told her mom we would like to start |
| 1:38.2 | putting her to sleep in her own bed. Her mom just laughed and said she wouldn't be doing that at her house. We tried it the last time she was |
| 1:44.2 | with us and she threw a tantrum like I have never seen. I'm not exaggerating. I have really never heard a |
| 1:50.0 | child scream and yell the way she was. At bedtime, we asked her if she wanted to sleep in her own bed and |
| 1:54.6 | she said yes. We put her to bed and told her she was going to need to start sleeping in her own bed and she needed to stay there for the night. The yelling, screaming, and crying started as soon as we put her in her bed. We |
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