I need some parenting advise please?

I know how you feel! Okay bottom line, if you want it to happen you have to suffer just a bit for it to happen. No more liquids at all. And you will have to deal with her crying. If she gets up and comes in your bed while you are sleeping when you wake up just move her. I know you want sleep also and it is so much easier to just shove something in her mouth to shut her up but listen it will happen every night and only get worse. i also have to share a room and honestly had the same problems. I needed to get up early for work and being woken up in the middle of the night to listen to my child scream was the last thing i wanted. I even let my child just sleep in the same bed for a while because of space issues. But like i said just stick to it. No more liquids and only have her sleep in HER bed! Start on a weekend so it is easier for you. And about the tenants they can do anything about a crying child at wee hours in the night. Don't worry about that. You wil l not get ticketed or get evicted. It is against the law.

This is a typical age that tots want to drink something at night. Our daughter is the same way, only I don't give her juice. Before bed I fill a sippy cup that won't leak with ice and water and leave it by her bedside (she sleeps in her own room on a mattress on the floor) and she gets it herself when she wakes up and then falls back asleep. As far as transferring her to her own bed in your room, just put a mattress on the floor across the room or wherever and lay down next to her until she falls asleep and then slip into your bed. The transition should be easy since you are not trying to move her to her own room. Buy a special quilt for her bed that she picks out and a few stuffed animals to personalize it and she will love her "big girl bed"

Maybe let her fall asleep and then transfer her to her own bed when shes out. Make a sippy cup before you go to bed that way when she wakes upo wanting a drink it will be ready, you may have to repeat the transfer. It's gonna take some time and patience so don't expect anything over night. I had this issue a while back with my daughter too, same room efficiany so I know what your going through. Just work with her. Try to get her comfortable in her bed, maybe lay down with her during the evening and put familiar maybe a favorite stuffed toy or blanky. Good luck.

Let her help pick out the bedding for her own bed and make it seem like a reward for her to sleep in her own bed. When I moved my daughter to her big girl bed out of the crib, it was a big production. She was so excited to move to the new bed. You would've thought it was Christmas.

As far as drinking goes, you are going to have to practice some tough love. You should only allow water in the middle of the night because Juice will cause tooth decay. Keep a sippy cup of water next to the bed and show her that she can get it herself. After awhile, she will quit wanting it altogether because it isn't getting her the attention that she wants which is probably the real reason she is waking up and whining.

As far as the bed, I told my son that it was time for him to be a "big boy" and sleep in his own bed. I let him choose the cover and everything. I put him in his own bed and just left the room and cleaned. If he got up and got in my bed, once he was asleep I would move him into his bed that way he would wake up in the toddler bed.

As far as the drink goes, before he would go to sleep I would let him have a drink of water, then that was it. He didn't get anything else until morning. I understand that the wining can be hard, but it's like teething, you'll just have to bear with it. If your neighbors can hear, then they will have to just have to deal with it. It's a child, if anything is said, apologize and explain that you're trying to get her to sleep in her bed and no more drinks throughout the night.

You could sleep on the couch and give her, her own room? At least that way, it would be more seperate. As for the juice, just tell her no, or give it to her just before bed telling her that this is it for the night, and she'd better drink up! You are the adult, not her, so she needs to mind you. (I know, easier said than done). If you keep giving in though, it's just going to get harder. GL!

You could sleep on the couch and give her, her own room? At least that way, it would be more seperate. As for the juice, just tell her no, or give it to her just before bed telling her that this is it for the night, and she'd better drink up! You are the adult, not her, so she needs to mind you. (I know, easier said than done). If you keep giving in though, it's just going to get harder. GL!

Bribery.

Say to her that you will get her something she likes if she stays in her own bed all night, if she doesn't make a noise, etc.

You could have a star chart or something - 5 stars makes a prize.

She might struggle with this though considering she is so young. All I can think of is making bedtime and staying in a bed fun and gamelike.

:)

well my mother used to tell me

if I want to become a big girl I have to sleep in my own bed and if that doesn't work just tell her the tooth fairy won't give her money when a tooth falls out because, when she comes with money she will be looking for her in your own bed. but if she is in yours its impossible for the tooth fairy to find her.

and about the drinking at night that's the hard part see its something they have to give up on their own so start slow by give her only one drink pur night then move on to one before bed and once you at that point it will be easier to stop it but just remember take it slow if you go to fast it wont work

The reason why she does this is because you allow it -- make a new rule and explain the new rule to her -- if she is thirsty at night start by only allowing water, no juice -- then reduce the amounts and times she can have it. make sure she understands it is not what you want, it is what she has to do.