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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and today's episode is just us together.

It's the bonus episode where I answer listener questions and talk about topics that have come up.

So today's topics are sleep and interrupting. So I'm answering listener questions about sleep

challenges and teaching kids how and when to interrupt and when to keep a little quiet and get

some patience. So I pulled some listener questions about sleep because we have a sleep episode and

I thought we could continue the conversation. The first listener question is my three girls share

room together. Bedtime is a nightmare because the silent return of my two-year-old keeps the

other two awake for hours and now my older ones are crying for me too when they never noticed before.

Do I go back to sitting in their room until they fall asleep every night? It was going to be up to one

hour or do I just muscle through the crying? So this is always hard when you have multiple kids

sharing a room and one thing I would say is for temporarily only if it's possible. You could

have the two-year-old in a pack-and-play or some portable sleep arrangement in a different room

in the house if possible just until they get their sleep corrected and then they can go back

and join everybody. Now that's not always possible for space purposes and also it's not always

possible because sometimes that causes more struggles and difficulty than before. So if you want

to keep your two-year-old in the room with the other two children then you might say you have two

choices. You can stay in the room quietly and I'll come and check on you and you'll say exactly

when you're going to come check and you'll say I'm going to check three times and these are going

to be the intervals but I'm coming when you're super quiet and your other choice is that you can

sleep in the hallway, the bathroom with the door open, somewhere else that you can arrange

until you're ready to be quiet so that your siblings can sleep. Now the other option is yes,

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