https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 13 May 2026 13:23:13 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-pass-for-25-year-old#post-2770993 Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:08:17 +0000 Purpledaisy 2770993@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mamacat2: I would also suggest the Ok to Wake clock. It was a life saver for us. We got it when we moved DD out of her crib a 3. She would stay in bed but yell for us every 5 minutes starting at like 5am. With this she knew it wasn't time to get up yet and would usually just fall back to sleep. We still use it at 4.5. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-pass-for-25-year-old#post-2770759 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:04:27 +0000 mamacat2 2770759@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think the door monkey is in our future sooner than I realized - for safety reasons alone. She somehow climbed over the gate in the hallway during one of her escapes from her room during naptime today and tumbled pretty badly...poor kid. The kind of sad twist is that she hugged her bed as I tucked her back in and said that she loved it so much she would stay in it now. Not at all the way I wanted her to embrace that idea! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-pass-for-25-year-old#post-2770739 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:04:03 +0000 MrsBucky 2770739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: same here. Honestly it's less about keeping him in bed and more about keeping him in a baby proofed room. It scares me to think of him roaming our house without supervision but I know that room is as safe as it can be. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-pass-for-25-year-old#post-2770733 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:49:37 +0000 birdofafeather 2770733@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsBucky: door monkey was out saving grace at 2.5. no clocks or anything else convinced her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-pass-for-25-year-old#post-2770677 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:01:04 +0000 mamacat2 2770677@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: We tried something like that last night, and it did help a little. (Plus it helped me get to her sooner to redirect her back to bed!) I think she liked thinking that she wasn't missing anything if we all were in bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-pass-for-25-year-old#post-2770676 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:59:12 +0000 mamacat2 2770676@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thank you all! I ordered an okay to wake clock this morning, definitely worth it for a try. She's pretty good at visual cues and likes gadget-y things, so she might think the clock is something neat. </p> <p>I'm on the fence about really closing her in her room, but if this goes on much longer, I think I'll try one of the door knob cover things or a door monkey. It sounds like there's hope for taking it off once we're over this hump. She'd been such a great sleeper and napper most of her life, this one has thrown me for a loop! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-pass-for-25-year-old#post-2770673 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:49:05 +0000 looch 2770673@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe you could all "go to bed" at the same time? I wasn't comfortable closing the door to my son's room, so what we did was just to retire to our room, with a bedside light on and read until he fell asleep. Then we get up and do whatever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-pass-for-25-year-old#post-2770671 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:43:42 +0000 erinbaderin 2770671@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Have you ever used a sticker chart with her? We use that to keep B (3.5) from getting up once we've said goodnight. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-pass-for-25-year-old#post-2770644 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:00:13 +0000 bees_knees 2770644@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mamacat2: that's about the age we started using an Ok to Wake clock. Something about having a concrete objecg look at (green vs not) really helped keep DS in bed! Might be worth the $20 to try it out :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-pass-for-25-year-old#post-2770639 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 09:03:34 +0000 ShootingStar 2770639@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had a similar problem at 2.5 where DS would wake up 2-3 hours early and think it was time to get up and come bang our door open. We tried to talk to him about staying in his room and he just wasn't old enough to get it. Plus, impulse control at that age is pretty non-existent. So we put a door knob cover on his door. He tried once or twice to open it and then gave up. He learned that he just wasn't able to open the door by himself and completely stopped doing it. Several months later we took it off so he could get up and go potty whenever he needed and it hasn't been an issue. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-pass-for-25-year-old#post-2770621 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 08:06:00 +0000 Banana330 2770621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter did this tons when we first transitioned. It was brutal for naps and wake ups. You could try an ok to wake clock. Mornings we've had success with saying you have to stay in bed until "mr golden sun comes up" ( the actual sun). Bed time stalling we let her go out for one pee/poo and that's it. Generally we sit up stairs for the first 15-20 min after we put her down. We did put a door knob cover on her door recently but she can get it open with it on 🤷‍♀️ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-pass-for-25-year-old#post-2770610 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 07:19:50 +0000 MrsBucky 2770610@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Honestly for my 2.5 yo, we use a door monkey. He is daytime training but I have no expectation he will be ready to nap or night train for 6-12 months anyway, so I'm not concerned with giving him access to a bathroom right now. He sometimes comes to the door and yells for us, but it's rare. He is very verbal but I do not think a pass system would work for him at this age. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-pass-for-25-year-old#post-2770603 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 06:33:53 +0000 mamacat2 2770603@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Has anyone had luck with a “get out of bed” pass for a two and a half year old? We converted our daughter’s crib to a toddler bed about two months ago, and the first month or so of it went seamlessly. She stayed in bed, fell asleep and woke up similarly to how she had in the crib, with a naptime from about 1:30 – 3 in the afternoon and nighttime sleep from about 7:30/8 until about 7AM. Sometimes she would take a little while to fall asleep for the nap or nighttime, but was content to play quietly with her stuffed animals in bed during that time, and again when she woke up. We thought we were set! :)</p> <p>In the last two weeks though, she has been using every excuse under the sun to get out of bed, leave her room, and call to us from the top of the stairs (where there’s a gate). Some of her excuses are legitimate (dirty diaper, particularly if she pooped) but many seem like they’re just stalling techniques (wanted to look at the gate to make sure it’s still working, wanted to see if baby sister’s door was closed, wanted to show her stuffed sheep the nightlight in the hallway, etc…). For each time she’s out of bed, we’ve tried to be as boring and nonchalant as possible while ushering her quietly and quickly back to bed, telling her it’s still naptime or nighttime and she needs to stay in her bed. I really thought after a few days of that consistently, she’d get the hint that she was going back to bed regardless. I’m not so sure anymore. </p> <p>I’ve seen suggestions of a “get out of bed” pass for older kids and have thought about giving her two or three passes to spend when she calls to us, but I’m not sure if she’s at an age where that concept will work. And I guess if I’m being honest, I’m not sure what I do when she spends them all, since she is leaving her room to call to us from the top of the stairs, and I’m not really comfortable locking her in her room. We’re on the edge of potty training, so I want her to feel confident about leaving her room to use the bathroom when we get to that stage, but I’d really like to nip the unnecessary trips out of bed in the bud. It’s getting out of hand for all of us, and is compromising the quality of her rest too. </p> <p>Just curious of anyone has suggestions from similar experiences? I'm hoping this is just a phase, and that we'll be out of it soon, but I'm so grateful for ideas!! </p>