I am a single mom of two, my son is with me full time while my daughter goes to her dad's every other weekend. When she comes back from her dad's she is terrified to go to bed alone. Of course I work on this and druing the next two weeks that I have her it starts to be less time that I have to stay in there but every time I almost have her going to bed on her own she goes to her dad's and the process begins again. I have no idea what is going on at his house that she does this and I am losing waaaay to much sleep. Any body have any ideas on how I can break her completely of this? Btw my daughter is 3 years old.
Nobody here would be able to answer that, you'd have to talk to her Dad to find out what arrangements he has there. Obviously he's doing something that's throwing her sleep schedule/routine off.
you are going to have to talk to her dad. THAT is where the problem is. unless she can tell you what she's scared of. are there trains that go by his house? noisy neighbors? not to mention the more sinister possibilities. talk to him and see if he can shed any light on the subject.
Can you talk to her dad about the arrangements there?
How old is your DD ?
After you talk to her dad and see if there is something going on there maybe he lets her sleep with him, or maybe she shares a room with another child so she is not sleeping by herself and that might be what it is.
Try letting her sleep with her light on or get a light brighter than a night light but softer than her normal bedroom light. That might help.
Sorry that the main answer is talk to dad.
I have to agree with some of the other posts that if it does not get better not to let her spend the night with him until somthing changes.
You might even need to take her to the Dr. the day that dad brings her home just to make sure that nothing bad is happening to her at dad's. I hate to think that it is but my good friend's daughter was abused sexually by her half brother on at least one visit to her dad's. When he was confronted about it he said that he never had the two on the same night. Well it happened again and that was the last time that she spent any time unsupervised with her dad.
