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Why does my kid wake in the night?

Name: Why does my kid wake in the night?
Uploaded: 2024-10-18T16:04:07+00:00
Duration: 54 s
Channel: Camilla McGill
Description: In this short parenting advice segment, the speaker explains that toddlers often wake during the night because parents rush through the bedtime routine…

18 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this short parenting advice segment, the speaker explains that toddlers often wake during the night because parents rush through the bedtime routine, which makes children feel unheard and unsettled. By slowing down the routine—such as taking extra time for the bath—and increasing emotional connection, parents can fill the child’s “love bucket,” reducing the child’s need to seek parental comfort during night awakenings. The speaker emphasizes that a calm, attentive bedtime environment helps children stay asleep through their sleep cycles.

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why kids wake in the night and how we can help to stop it. We often rush through the bedtime routine because it's the end of the day, you just want to get downstairs and have a glass of wine, and our toddlers can feel that from us, they can sense that. And so if you're able to slow down the bedtime routine a little bit, maybe take the bath out, to allow yourself a bit more time so So you don't feel rushed and then your toddler doesn't feel rushed and they'll feel more listened to. And also it's that connection as well. So even missing out a bit on that connection can cause them to wake in the night. It's a long period of time that they're going without you. So we all wake in the night and through our sleep cycles, but it's having their love bucket full that they don't feel they need to come and get you in the night in order to go back to sleep.