SO when am I supposed to do this?

A thread for unsure parent questions.

Here's mine:

When did you guys put your kids in a toddler bed?

wrong board!

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never put 'em in a toddler bed, went right from crib to full size bed. why fuck around with an intermediate piece of furniture? unless you really like putting beds together.

also at that age they're super-excited when you tell them they're getting a big person bed.

Yeah we went from cot to big bed. You can get them with detachable rails. Or you can get one of those extendable beds.

Keep them in the cot forever. That way they can't get up and wander into your bed every night.

I am planning on keeping Howie in his cot til his head touches one end and his toes the other. The minute he realises he can get up and wander about, a full night's sleep is history.

Keep them in the cot forever. That way they can't get up and wander into your bed every night.
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We've got a stairgate thingie ready for when we take the front off Aidan's cot, so we can put it across his door to limit night wanderings

our thing is that the only way we can get beeps to sleep at night is to rock her and shes getting too big to hold in a chair. with a bed we might be able to sit next to her and read her to sleep. kind of hard with a crib. plus i found a really cute four poster princess bed. but, yeah, the night wanderings would be a big problem.

yeah we had a toddler bed as a gift for kid #1 but rarely used it, and so just moved the next two right to big beds when they were two or a little younger. It's been fine, I mean as fine as toddler sleep can be.

professional acrobats run in my wife's family and those genes were apparently passed down to my son who was escaping from his crib for many months before we put him in a bed

I can't remember the last time I woke up without two children in our bed, they are like untameable woodland creatures

cot=crib in britishese?

yeah cot=crib. my mother in laws suggestion was move her to a bed once she worked out how to escape the crib.

escaping the crib builds upper body strength tho

true!

american cot:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31n8zky-YpL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

never put 'em in a toddler bed, went right from crib to full size bed. why fuck around with an intermediate piece of furniture? unless you really like putting beds together.

^^^^this

if you want a bed they won't get out of this is your only option

http://www.rehabmart.com/imagesfromrd/POSEY-8115.jpg

actually I could use several products from this site, the "comfy cuffs" sound particularly intriguing

http://www.rehabmart.com/category/Patient_Restraints.htm

"patient restraints" sounds like an s&m night!

I used to be one of those people who looked down on parents who took their kids out in public on leashes

then I had kids and one day found myself lingering in front of a rack of child harnesses at babies r us going "hmmmmmm...."

We tried one on an overnight trip recently, and Beeps figured out that if she could throw herself onto the pavement, I would likely pull up on the leash, giving her a cool way of swinging above the ground Tom Cruise-Mission Impossible style.

I never actually put them on a leash tho, even when 3yo E5 went through the HILARIOUS phase of bolting in crowded public places like aquariums and department stores

she once combined this activity with her emerging interest in public nudity but luckily I missed that episode... "ma'am, are you looking for the naked little girl? she went that way."

Actually the best thing would be a futon: they can't fall out. When I stayed with my parents in Tokyo, it was bliss! She'd crawl out and wander around the flat. She'd crawl into my parents room and play with'em.

You know, Mark Twain invented and patented some kind of kids' pajamas/bed linen thing that strapped them to the bed.

That's a very poorly constructed sentence.

You can get zip-in duvets from the makers of the Grobag -- here

Hello parents. I am not one, but I was a happy child who was tied to the mattress in a kind of cotton sleeping bag my Mum made for me. Apparently I kept standing up and couldn't get back down again, but I found the bag very calming in the same way some babies like being swaddled. I still like the sheets tucked round me really tightly :)

me too. i also like really heavy blankets for the same reason. i bought beeps a sheet from australia that looks much like a pillowcase that you put the mattress inside. anyway, its supposed to keep the kid from moving too much. never used it though because of suffocation fear.