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I am facing sleeping problem with my 3 year old daughter, since her childhood she has a very littel sleep. If we let her sleep in the afternoon for 1-1.5 hours then she sleeps at 12:00 - 12:30 in the night and that is really problematic, we know that she is tired but she always wants to play more and more untill it is really impossible for her. She also learn how to avoid sleep and tries all tricks to get away from sleep. Some times we need to be tough to put her in bed but thet works only once or twice.

Apart from this she also gets up in the night twice, she has habbit of urinating in the bed, from her childhood we never used the nappies not she is not comfortabel with that. So I need to get up 2-3 in the night.

can anybody advice what good be solution for this, how can I get away from these habbits ?

Shilpa suma replied. hi you learn on parenting program which gave me a great experience.it will tell you how to deal with your childs hyperactive ness and as well sleeping problems with some beatiful techniques.contact 9342503589 wellwisher replied. First of all I think she doesn't need any more afternoon naps, that way she may get to bed earlier and sleep throughout the night.
Re; urinating - Try this,
why don't you wake up every 2 hours at night and take her to the toilet and make her urinate and continue this by increasing the duration - 3 hours - 4 hours - then she would get the habit of you waking her up to urinate and it may work. Also, during daytime too you should try this same method. padma sv replied. madam
ms. sarala's suggestions seem to be fine. in any case, avoid any medications which any doctor may want to give for the urination problem- except as the last resort. do not talk to the child about the problem especially before others. give specific advice in a kind manner; just before the child sleeps. ask him to call you when he feels the need to urinate. show your disapproval but do not get angry. show that you understand that he did not do it wantonly.
hope it will clear away.

regards
padma geethu replied. hi,

i have a 3yr old daughter who has a speech delay. i have been givin her vigourous speech thereapy. i sthere any school that will take her .please let me know b'cos most of the schools r not prepared t take children with speech delay SaralaArumugam replied. Hi shilpa,
I am having two years old son. He used to have the same problem. Normally he will sleep at 12 o'clock.
Regarding the urination problem. Even though we used to keep napipad to him. What we actually did was? we used to get up in the night appro. five times to leave him to toilet. It took 8 months to reduce as 3 times. Now we have reduce the water intake in the night from 2 glass of water to 1/2 glass of water. so, we are getting up only once in the night to him to urinate and nowadays he is having sufficient control also. 95% he won't unrinate. very rare.
So, in the middle he will get up once. but we are having problem, that he may sleep again after that.
For that we are trying to avoid the day sleep.
In the night, sometime if he is so fresh in the midnight, if we can't managehim, then we will act as if we are sleeping. my son tries to wake me up and sleep slowly.
It's my experience.
I think you can get some ideas.
Try it out.
Sarala