We are working on Taylor with her sleeping habits. Since she was born she has slept with the TV on cartoons all night long. She is 3 years old, and never sleeps through the night. So we have tried taking the TV away at bedtime many times before but we could never actually do it :/ So, of course after she was up all night Sunday night because her cartoons would go off, we decided to try again. I talked to her all day about how the tv has to go to sleep at bed time just like she does. She would cry every time I mentioned it. At bed time it took 20 minutes of me reading a story to her, and then about 45 minutes of her screaming to get her to sleep. Finally, at 9 15 I checked on her and found this ^. Sadly, it didn't last long. She was up all night crying/screaming and we finally just let her in our bed................ I got NO sleep. She kicked me, rolled on me, took my pillows, took my blanket. And was up with Daddy at 6 am ready to go. So today I made her take a nap. It was rough at first. But I caved and let her watch ONE cartoon, when that went off I told her the TV would be off so she better go to sleep. It worked. But I know tonight it wont. Because when she wakes up at 2 am and the TV is off it will be a screaming fit again. I wish I could go back in time to when she was little and cut out the TV then. I will never let the kids sleep with TV's on again, if I can get her out of the habit that is......
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