Toddler sleeping in own room advice

Hey fellow moms I’m exhausted my two year old daughter has come to our room in the middle of the night crying every night for the past week. She’s suddenly not wanting to sleep in her room/her bed. She’s not super good at communicating yet but apparently she’s sometimes having bad dreams. She gets up multiple times a night between 1am-5am. It’s exhausting. I take her to her room give her some water, tuck her in, take her potty if she says she has to go. This is to no avail because She always ends up sleeping in our bed at some point. Once she was even laying in bed and I had no idea when she came in she was just laying off the side of my bed sleeping. I’ve told her soo many times that she can’t come to our room until her lil clock in her room has green light but she doesn’t remember I guess? My husband has suggested that we spank her but I’m not sure that’s the best way to go about it. He doesn’t like her sleeping in our bed because he works early in the morning. Anyway was wondering if you guys struggled with this? How did you handle it?

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We keep our two year old out of our room at night completely. He can’t sneak in. We go to him if he has a bad dream and comfort him there. Usually, we pray with him, but honestly what has helped the most is reassuring him that we love him. We have a whole list of all his family members (aunts, uncles, and grands included) that we go through every night. When he has a bad dream, we go through the same list. It distracts him, calms him down, and it’s easy to recite. Now, we can sometimes hear him repeating it over the monitor.

Our script goes, “mama loves you. Dada loves you. Eily (sister) loves you…”

There's a point around this age where they become afraid of the dark. My son hit it and it took weeks to get him to stop waking in the middle of the night absolutely distraught. We got him a bright new Nightlight and rode it out, after we put the light in it only took a few days for him to settle back into sleeping through. If she's coming to you for comfort I would say spanking is the worst possible idea "if you feel unsafe I will hurt you" rather than "if you felt unsafe I will reassure you" is not the message you want to send and would probably make things worse

My 2 year old son started waking up crying right out his sleep. He did it multiple nights so it had me thinking a recurring dream. I chant; good dreams, great dream, happy dreams , safe dreams. I kiss him on the forehead between his eyes and put him back to sleep. I also make sure his space is cleanse of unwelcome spirits. Kids can see things we can’t.

that’s good advice. I’ll be honest my husband is a bit sensitive to stuff normal people can’t see and has been since was a kid. He says he’s seen some things every now and then in our home. How do you cleanse lil guy’s space?

Burning sage – particularly white sage – is a simple and fast way to clear out bad spirits and negative energy. Add frankincense (which you can use alone, too, if you don't like sage) and copal incense to chase out all the negative vibes so there's plenty of room for good ones.

https://www.emeraldyoga.com/blog/house-cleansing-a-checklist-for-clearing-bad-energy-from-your-home

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