My Toddler Won't Stay in Her Bed!!!!

My suggestion is not exactly cheap, but well worth the money. You need to get a My Tot Clock. http://www.mytotclock.com/home.php Look over the website. It is a really neat clock that you can set and it will show your toddler whoch color means they need to be sleeping, which one means they can get out of bed, play songs when they are supposed to wake up. It will help your toddler understand naptime/bedtime and help them be more responsible.

It has so many uses. Timeout timer, alarm clock, and my favorite, the encouragement timer. You could even use it for a slow eater to tell them that they have x amount of minutes to eat and then the clock will change colors and their food will go away. You have got to get one. It makes for a great birthday gift for a 2 year old in my opinion. This clock can be used for a long time, until they can tell time on their own, it even has great use after that as just a plain alarm clock!

We had a video monitor in our older son's room when we switched him to a toddler bed. One of us went in his room and sat on his bed while the other showed him the screen explaining that we could see him and we knew if he got out of bed. It worked fairly well, we had times when he would get up but for the most part if we saw him get out of bed and we yelled up to him he would scramble back into bed very fast, LOL!

Our second we have not had any trouble with, he won't even get up in the morning until one of comes to get him up.

We had a similar situation with our 2 year old. What we did worked like a charm....
"Lay down and rest. I'll check on you in 5 minutes"

She would fall asleep while waiting for me to return. I would peek in, and she would always be asleep.

I FEEL YOUR PAIN! :) I have 3 year old twins in the same room and am going through the same thing.

Today what worked for us is I lie down on the floor pretending to nap as well, and in about 5 mins. or less one of my girls falls asleep. If the other one is still awake I just rub her back for a bit and she goes to sleep. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this will work and I'll slowly wean off of it.

Before this I just did the "supernanny" thing of putting them back in over and over. One would stay in if I let her pick out books to read in her bed but the other one kept getting out.

It is so frustrating, isn't it! :)

I started by sitting in my son's room and read a book until he was so sleepy that he didn't care if I left. I did this for a while and actually got a lot of reading done! Then I started saying I'll be back in 2 minutes and came back in 2 minutes for a kiss, then 5 minutes and by then he was usually asleep. If he wasn't every 5 minutes until he was asleep. I never tried to put him to bed until I knew he was really tired because it makes it that much more difficult. This phase will pass quickly, just be patient.

We moved our daughter into a big bed at 19 months for various reasons (including having another baby) and I can tell you a few things that have worked for us. First thing is I started calling it quiet time instead of nap time, since she did not always nap, but it was always quiet. I made sure there were not any toys that made sounds in her room and left dolls, blocks and books. We put up the baby gate because I didn't want her leaving her room but I also didn't want to just shut her in there. But what I do every afternoon is I tell her it's time for quiet time and we grab her water and blanket and I put up the gate in her room with me in there. As we are getting ready for quiet time, she usually runs to point out where the gate is so I don't forget to put it up (not that I would =) ).

Then with me in there and the gate up, we read books for about 10 minutes. After that I leave (stepping over the gate) and she stays in and plays quietly. Depending on the day, she usually falls asleep, sometimes on the bed, sometimes on the floor. But at any rate, I get about 2 hours of quiet, more if she falls asleep. The days she doesn't nap, she just goes to bed earlier that night and she still plays quietly in the room.

The first few weeks though after we started it, she was so excited about her new found freedom that she didn't nap. But after a while it became routine and so the days she is tired, she naps, when she is not, she doesn't. Also, occasionally she will call for me or fuss a little bit. That usually is a sign for me that she will be falling asleep soon, so I tell her, "Almost done" or "a few more minutes", and that usually calms her down and she falls asleep.

So that's our routine, it has worked pretty well for a while now and I still get my much-needed break in the afternoons!

Good luck!