u/Goo_nadz

I never planned on sleep training. But my oldest is 20months and now with a newborn (1mon) we need to do something.

Currently oldest is awaken between 5/6am goes down for a nap at 11/12 and sleeps for an hour. Then starts bedtime at 7. We do a milk bottle and then hold him till he’s asleep. Some nights it’s one wake up others it’s every 2 hours.

I’m considering doing the method of putting him down awake and checking in at 5 min increments. (5min, 10min, 15min, etc)

My question is we are moving out of my in-laws in a week or two to our new home (assuming we close on it next week) shoulder start this now or wait until after the move? Also any other tips appreciated tbh I’m not looking forward to sleep training at all.

TLDR;

20 month old won’t stop pushing buttons on auto litter boxes. Should we try to teach a lesson or just cut our odds and unplug the suckers while in that area?

To teach or not to teach? That is the question.

SOS

My 20month old literally cannot help himself around our automatic litter boxes. He HAS to press the buttons to activate them. What started out harmless once or twice while in that area of the house has become an obsessive as soon as it stops he has to start it again. And when we finally get him away from one he goes to the other one.

My only thought is to unplug them when we go over there so it stops the reinforcement of them activating (of course we do a verbal scold but the kid is addicted to these things.) my husband agrees that could help but doesn’t think there’s a lesson of following what mom and dad say in that. Which he isn’t wrong.

Part of me thinks that lesson can be taught else where and to just save the motors on the boxes and part of me thinks we could attempt a better rule following discipline.

Anyone that can offer advice?