Dealing with the fact that the child isn’t sleeping alone in its room is a very common problem in many families, especially if he’s an only child. In this article we’ll discuss a very effective way to solve this problem.
To address this situation, some people recommend that you apply discipline and push the child to sleep alone in his room, even against his will. This can be a solution, but the problem is that many parents don’t want their children crying and suffering because of the sudden change on their sleeping routine.Personally, one of the most effective ways that I could recommend to any parents who wish to make their child begins to sleep alone in his own room is a technique I like to refer as “extent of patterns” and is basically about establishing a standard in front of the child and as the days go, drag out that standard to a point that allows the child to stop missing the presence of the parents. May seem confusing, but it’s actually very easy to implement.
Let’s look at practical ways to use this method:
It tells the child that from now on his mommy or daddy is going to accompany him to sleep in his room so he doesn’t feel alone. Then, the parent have to put a chair next to the child’s bed with a short distance of 50cm in the direction of the door, and the parent must sit there until the child falls asleep.
The next day, move the chair a little farther away from the bed compare to the previous day (around 70cm this time) and repeat the ritual of sitting until the child falls asleep. This increase of distant between the chair and the child’s bed should be repeated every night until it reaches a point where the chair is outside the child’s room and isn’t visible anymore.
If the child asked why the chair’s getting further away, you may answer that the reason for that is to have a better range of vision of the room so you can protect him better.
This technique is effective because it’s based on the premise that a habit can’t be eliminated, but replaced. On the other hand, the child is going to change the feeling of being safe in the parent’s room, to feel safe in his own bed with the parent’s presence, and at the same time, this presence must be reduced gradually.
If right now you have a child with a problem sleeping in his room, don’t hesitate to try this method and see the results for yourself. I can guarantee you this method will be very useful to this kind of situation.
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