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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
Two, giving up on the idea of keeping him in the bed at all, and instead putting a gate at the doorway so at the very least he is trapped in the room until morning. If he plays until he just passes out on the floor, so be it.
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This is basically what we do, except we installed a
screen door on the girl's room. We put her in her toddler bed and leave the door cracked, but the screen door completely closed.
Sometimes, she gets back up, opens the door and fusses at the screen door, but we stay out of sight -- and she gets back in bed (she even shuts the door, as if the whole thing was just a staged protest).
...At naptimes, she does do the whole pass out on the floor thing sometimes. But that is happening less often. Because she is in charge of being in bed (and isn't "trapped"), she realizes that she actually prefers it.