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Having Trouble with Siblings Sharing a Room
Asked by N.F. from San Francisco
on December 19, 2008
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We have a two bedroom house, and our 2 1/2 year old boy and 8 month old girl share a room. We are having a heck of a time. They often wake eachother up. Our son tal...
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- At 8 months your little one should not need to nurse at night unless you have chosen this path. She should be atleast 14 pounds and if so is big enough to consume her ...
- Both of my kids are the same age as yours. What we did with our 8 month old is put her crib in our room. She has her own little area until she is old enough for a to...
- Usually kids sleep through anything! It's unfortunate that you have two light sleepers. If I were you, since you are still nursing the baby and she isn't sleeping th...
Getting Twins to Clean Room
Asked by T.B. from Topeka
on May 29, 2008
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I have six-year-old twin boys that will not clean their room and I am tired of doing it. I have done everything I can think of to make it easy for them to do it, but t...
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- This can be frustrating. They are old enough to put toys away. I know you tried a version of this, but maybe bring them up to their room, explain to them that it is ...
- Hello im the mother of 7 year old twin girls who are no better than your boys t cleaning their room. i think its the age and having too much stuff to begin with! my ...
- There is an online program called House Fairy that is to encourage kids to clean their rooms. Here's the link: http://www.housefairy.org/ It's very cute, but some of ...
Help with Room Decor
Asked by J.R. from Saginaw
on May 31, 2009
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Howdy,
I know a lot of you crafty ladies out there hopefully will give me a hand. We have 3 bedrooms upstairs and a few months back I started redecorating the spare...
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- Hi J., If you have to use a border and can't find one in a particular theme, why not just get a 'paintable' border -the ones with an embossed print on them? This wou...
- Can you put in a molding instead of a wallpaper border? Why not just go with bright colors and add accents with something he likes...bright cars, bugs, animals. Get ...
- I put a fat head fighter jet up on the wall. It is REALLY COOL!!! My son loves it and it will grow with him too. My son is 11.
Bedtime Gating in Room
Asked by K.D. from Youngstown
on August 1, 2008
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Hi all:
I have a question for what others may do. I was reading John Rosemond's Making Terrible Two's Terrific - it's been SO helpful for me. He mentioned using a...
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- One of my friends had an awesome idea that has worked wonders with her 2 boys. She bought old cheap doors and her husband cut them in half. He put a finished edge wh...
- Hello K.. My youngest will be 2 in FOURTEEN DAYS and she recently moved into a twin size bed with a bed gate thing on the side. For me, I can't always get her to sle...
- When I put my son in his big boy bed, I placed a doorknob lock on his side of the door and I use a baby monitor. That way he stays in his room until I go to get him o...
Toys in Toddlers Room?
Asked by N.G. from Seattle
on April 11, 2009
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Hello all you moms out there. Heres my question: My daughter is 2 years old and has moved into her "big girl bed" about a month ago. All is going well with no probl...
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- I have always had toys in my son's room. One of the things I liked about having toys in his room, is in the mornings he would get up and start playing and I would get ...
- It took us a few nights within the first couple weeks to get my daughter to stay in bed without getting up to play.We let her take a couple of her favorite stuffed ani...
- I personally have always thought that toys do not belong in the bedroom. However, I know for some its a matter of space. If you do put toys in the bedroom make sure yo...
What Color to Paint a Room???
Asked by M.W. from St. Cloud
on March 14, 2011
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Hi Moms,
Our daughter just picked out a black and white bedspread to go in her "new" room. (It's technically white with a pattern of black flowers, stems, and vine...
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- My daughter has leopard print everything. Her room is Pepto Bismol pink with gold shimmers in the paint. It looks much nicer than it sounded when she wanted to do it...
- watermelon pink (like a hot pink)
- I am doing my room in black and white, and my accent color is red. I also considered orange and red, hot pink and light pink, lime green and purple, lime green and aqu...
How to pick a color for my baby's room?
Asked by B.S. from San Diego
on January 19, 2008
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Help! I need ideas... don't even know where to begin. I got some great advice from some friend/decorator about not using pink again in my 2nd daughter's nursery. I lik...
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- Dear B., You have a great start there. I would go for pale yellow and a pale green carpet. Frogs like green, it makes them feel at home. Just kidding. I pain...
- Hi B.- I just did an adorable room for my little girl. And we did it all within 24 hours, including the paint drying between coats. And for really cheap. http://...
- We painted our baby girls bedroom a khaki type lighter green (actual color is Vista Paint: 7849 Gold Mountain) with the trim painted a Swiss Coffee. It looks wonderfu...
Any Ideas??
Asked by J.S. from Milwaukee
on March 12, 2008
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I'm looking for any physical activities for pre schooler age children. I volunteer at the Y and I'm helping teach a gym type class. I do the red light green light game...
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- obstacle courses are easy and fun, and if you make them in a circle, the kids can just keep going around!
- How about a simple stop and go dance game? Play music and encourage children to move at their own direction. When music stops, they freeze..... it is guaranteed to ...
- Don't forget about the limbo! Kids love that! Also that running game where they pass a baton from one child to the next. You might consider starting or better yet e...
Room Cleaning and Chores
Asked by A.S. from Kansas City
on September 26, 2010
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Hi moms! I am going crazy trying to get my kids to clean their rooms and pick up after themselves. My son is 9, so I think he should be able to do his own picking up w...
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- I found that by making it a team effort....everything was finished MUCH quicker! I actively helped, directing the efforts....but there were many times that my son wou...
- Instead of waiting until the weekend can you set the timer and have them work for 5 minutes a day (or 10) to make it more manageable? If my kids know they can quit wh...
- i give a dollar a day for a clean room/bathroom/help with trash and towels and her little sister, im going broke but the house is spotless
Room Sharing and Sleeping Problems
Asked by G.T. from Washington DC
on February 12, 2010
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My 2 sons, age 2 1/2 and 15 months, currently sleep in the same room. They are great about bedtime, and all night, but then they are both wide awake at 4:30, 5 on goo...
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- put them to bed later or go to bed when they do. they are getting plenty of sleep as it is.
- What about black-out shades on the blinds to make the room darker?
- one thing that helped my dd was an alarm clock with the time she was allowed to get out of her bed above it, the same size as the clock numbers, so when they matched, ...
