Bedtime battles 😴😴

Any advice on helping my daughter go to bed/sleep at night, or anybody going through similar?
My little one is absolutely going through it at the moment, suddenly dislikes going to nursery which she has always LOVED, she’s been potty training for a few weeks and has been doing amazing but last couple of days has gone back to some accidents (which I know is normal but she will be stood next to the toilet/potty and just say no I want to go in my pants 😅), and now takes well over an hour to get to bed (last night it was 2 hours) she comes up with every stalling tactic/excuse in the book (which is very entertaining I must say 😂) but she just refuses to go to bed until she eventually gives in! She is pushing boundaries a lot more in the day too which I know is absolutely normal but the sleep thing seems to have coincided with all of the above x

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she has been in her toddler bed for almost a year now but part of the battle is getting her into bed in the first place she just out right refuses 😅😅 i will try that though once she first gets into bed thankyou! Xx

My little girl went through a phase on refusing to sleep in bed… she would sleep by the baby gate 😅 I’d move her into bed when asleep but she’d go back there… went in for around a month but now she’s in bed with no issues! Girls are incredibly stubborn 😅🤣 I would say you could try and sticker chart, but I’m not sure if they’re still a little too young to understand the concept yet! Xx

yeah she is definitely testing more boundaries recently and seems to all be linked together, thankyou again I will give this a good do! Xx

funny you should say that actually we have to take her mattress off the bed and put it on the floor now (at her request) which actually helped for a few nights but although she still wants that it’s not persuading her to get into bed anymore 😅😅 xx

they are so funny and stubborn at this age 😆 I thought maybe she was sleeping by the gate because she liked seeing the hallway…… So we move the bed so when she was in bed she could see out the door… Didn’t help… she just wanted to sleep on the floor 🤣 I just thought if she was really that uncomfortable, she would get up and get back into her bed… and a month or so later… she did and now she stays in bed all night xx

so funny 😂😂 they really are hilarious, I give my girl 10/10 for creativity with these excuses 😂😂 she rolls out of bed on purpose then shouts us to let us know she ‘needs help because she has fallen out of bed’, the other day she even threw a teddy down the stairs then shouted us she ‘dropped her teddy’ 😅 ,
She actually went of abit easier last night but we we will see 😂 xx

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