Locking Toddler In Their Room At Night

I d never ever do it mums have also been talking about this over in the netmums coffeehouse.

Locking toddler in their room at night. A few will applaud. Parents lock their kids in their rooms as a discipline all the time. I locked our toddler in his room every night to save my marriage some will call him a monster. Once put to bed he constantly gets out of bed and or screams.

Parents who lock their children in their rooms at night are generally divided into distinct groups. One writing that their two year old would wander around the house at 5am using ladders made of stacks of books to reach. With all due respect i will provide an opinion on whether or not this is a good idea for the benefit of people other than the asker of the question. I also have a 6 month old and fear my toddler getting in the bed with him and hurting him as well.

I took the side off my kids cribs before they could crawl and i put a child safety knob so to. When martin daubney s three year old refused to stay in bed he resorted to. Years ago the daily mail featured the story of a dad who was so exasperated that his son kept getting out of bed and going into mum and dad s room he put a lock on the child s bedroom door from the outside and left it locked for the night. I am up all night worrying about if they are breathing or if a pillow is on their face or if they are sleeping all night or waking up.

There are those who genuinely feel that their child will escape and cause harm to themselves if they didn t lock them in. My plans are to start decreasing nap time so he sleeps better at night and to get up about an hour before he does in the morning so there s no time for him to start adventuring. Locking your kids in their rooms at night is a safety hazard in case of fire. Now we do not co sleep well if the kids aren t feeling well if they are running a fever or if there is a thunderstorm they do sleep in our rooms but for the most part we don t co sleep because i am a huge worrier.

I know if i were to do this to even my 8 year old and he was to wake up in the night with his door locked he. Locking your kids in their rooms at night is a safety hazard in case of fire. The worst part of parenting little kids isn t the endless parade of bodily emissions it s the lack of adequate sleep without enough sleep parent and child alike are miserable and even straightforward challenges become exercises in antagonism that s why it might be tempting to lock a toddler into their bedroom when they transition to a big kid bed. I ve posted here before asking for advice for getting our toddler 2 yrs 5 mths to sleep as he s going through a very difficult phase.

Putting a lock on a young child s door is not right imo. It sounds like your house isn t adequately kid proofed if they can get to medications though.