Patterns & Habits: Toddler, Simmons

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Seeking Advice for 20 Month Old Who Will Not Sleep past 5:15 Am

Does anyone have any advice about a 20 month old boy who wakes up every morning between 5 and 6 am? If I am lucky it is 6:15 but that is rare! He sleeps well at nap time, usually around 1 to 3 or 3:30. And he goes to bed at night between 7:30 and 8. I have tried putting him to bed earlier around 6:15 but not for many months and that did not seem to make any difference. He is not waking up from light or noise or cold . . . what is going on?

Sleep Problems

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Sleep Problems in a Preschooler

My daughter is 3 1/2 and NEVER sleeps through the night. She was a great sleeper from 6 months until about 18 months, but starting at that point she began fighting us about bedtimes and then waking constantly throughout the night. When we put her to bed she screams and whines for hours, getting out of her bed and standing at her door asking us to come and cover her up again, read her another book, get her a drink, find her security blanket (lost in her bedcovers), etc. We almost always end up giving in to her screaming and whining after...