My son will not sleep all and he is four years old, How can get him to sleep in his room..?

I started with both my children as babies to sleep in their own beds. This helps so tremendously in the later years. but while my son’s father was in Iraq and I was pregnant with #2 – I did share the bed with my cuddle bug for a few months. it was really hard to make him go back to his bed later. I just had to make him!! I put him in his bed at his usual bedtime (and you have to keep this a routine time). If he gets up, go lay him back down. Don’t talk to him or engage with him. Put him in bed, kiss him and walk out. If he gets up again, do it again, but this time don’t kiss him. And over and over – eventually he will give in and sleep in his bed. You just have to be persistant.

I had the same issue with my 3 year old boy. The whole TV thing didn’t work for me because if he’s watching TV he will stay up forever! I started sitting at his bedside and we would read a book or tell a story even recite the alphabet. The easiest thing for me was turning on the living room television allowing him to hear it from his room but not be able to see. He was perfectly happy being able to hear what was going on and would within minutes fall asleep.

Do you have him on a routine? If not, I would start one. At 5pm have dinner. At 7pm, start your bedtime schedule. We give Noah a bath, play for a few minutes, offer milk & a snack, brush teeth, change diaper, read a book, and tuck him in. We’re been doing this since birth.

At 4, your son is smart enough to understand what you tell him. Let him know of the new plans. We’re going to do this, this, and this…tell him he’s a big boy and he’s going to sleep in his big boy bed.

You can read to him. Put a night light in his room. Or if you close his door at night, leave his door open and yours. Not all the way of course. That’s what my sis did when my parents kicked me out at that age.

Most definatley put a tv with a dvd player so he can watch his movies. Works wonders for my daughter! She loves watching her princess movies and drinking her milk and than falling asleep. (she is 3) I also lay in there with her sometimes until she falls asleep.

Good luck!

put a night light in his room or if he has a tv in his room turn it on until he fall asleep(it worked for me).and if he fells asleep in his room til morn. give him a small treat of praise.

You can trying staying in there with him reading a book or something until he falls asleep.

Give him a small shot of Children’s Benadryll – he’ll sleep like a baby.

give him some meds and or lock the door to his room