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I'm thinking about taking all lights out of my daughter's room for when she goes to bed just so she will go to bed.

thoughts?

She's just got warm white christmas lights strung around the periphery of the ceiling.

Any way to put them on a timer?

She may actually need those lights to help her go to sleep. My son when he was younger insisted on some form of light being left on all night. The minute I turned it off he would be wide awake.

We have the same issue (funny this came up twice in the same day) as my son gets very, very anxious in the dark. We have one light on a timer and another that stays on all night.

You might consider one of the lights on a timed dimmer switch. I've thought about buying these, not just for going to sleep but also for helping DS wake up, but they're kind of expensive...

I don't think removing the lights will solve the issue. Little ones just have a need to fight going to bed. One thing you don't want to do is turn it into a traumatic experience. Develop a routine, stick to it, be firm.

If she finds the lights disturbing, remove them. If she finds them calming, keep them.

I'm the mom who fell asleep with the kids when they were little, btw. I used to tell guided imagery stories; they loved those. If they insisted on getting out of bed, I would leave, and they would loose mom and loose story. They didn't like that, so they learned. Other times I would let them read in bed as late as they wanted as long as they stayed in bed; that worked, too. I would listen on the baby monitor to figure out when they had finally gone to sleep; then I would go in and turn out the lights.

My aspie son insists on a nightlight and my NT daughter does not. Maybe the Christmas lights give off too much light while a single, dim nightlight would be better.

Depends on the child. I'm 44 and still sleep with a light on (fiber optic lamp in my case).

I can't fall asleep WITHOUT the light.

My son has blue led lights strung on one section of the ceiling, they have different settings, we have them set to very slowly fade on & off in a random sequence (his favorite).

I've always had trouble falling asleep, but the light never had anything to do with it, my mind would/will race though the days events analyzing everything that occured that day for at least an hour or so, my son complains of the same.

I think some of us just take longer to wind down after the day is done, this could be the difficulty your daughter is facing also.

On the bright side, I've found the solutions to quite a few "problems" over the years in this un-planned "analysis" time.

mine also afraid of the dark what i did was get a lamp and put a blue light in it so it's more calming and not so bright he also has the tv on when he falls asleep i turn that off once he's out:) timer wouldn't work for us when he woke up and was dark he was again scared .. he still will turn on every light in the house just to go use the bathroom if he wakes up. there's also those touch lamps which are nice run on batteries so doesn't drain the electricity unfortunately in our case mine takes them apart .. good luck

All my kids have blue LED nightlights in their rooms and bathrooms. They can't fall asleep without them. All of us have too vivid imaginations and are scared. They have the sensors to make them only work when the lights are out. I like them on all the time so thay can get to the bathroom at night without turning on lights and waking up siblings.