Bad Dreams

I just put Brett to bed. He wasn't in there 5 minutes and came out saying "Mama, me have bad dream." This has been going on for about a week now. He's obviously not having a bad dream, he hasn't even had time to fall asleep. He's just using it as a tactic to not go to sleep and come out to see what we are doing. Often he has a smile on his face as he's saying it, like just now. We began using the Supernanny technique last night to "cure him" of this. Whenever he comes out and says it, we simply usher him back into bed without even saying anything. It seems cruel, I know but it works and it's really necessary. He's not suffering from a real bad dream - if he was we would react differently. He's just stalling. About a month ago he was using the potty excuse so we had to resort to this method. After about two nights of the Supernanny technique, he stopped getting up out of bed. I expect he'll stop in a night or two and then in a few weeks come up with something else. It's kinda funny but something we can't let continue to happen.

Especially because since I've been writing this blog entry, he's now gotten up two more times. I'm actually surprised it's at three already tonight. But, hopefully the Supernanny technique will work soon! I'm off to finish assembling the Christmas cards. Maybe not having the light from the office shine under his door will help him go to sleep faster!