How to get 3 year old to sleep with blanket?

amother

Floralwhite

Sun, Oct 22 2017, 6:00 am

Fall is coming to Israel, nights are getting chillier and our children's rooms are badly insulated. I don't want to spend a fortune on heating. A good blanket should fix that problem, but our 3 year old ds kicks his blanket away several times every night and then wakes up and complains about being cold. We tuck him in as good as possible and stick the ends of the blanket underneath the mattress, but he always gets that blanket off again in his sleep and doesn' t manage to cover himself up again when he wakes up. Any suggestions?

amother

Mustard

Sun, Oct 22 2017, 3:12 pm

My kid doesn't sleep with a blanket either, she's already 4. We do keep her heat on more than ours, but the room doesn't need to be warmer than 20 degrees celsius. For some even 18 degrees is ok (I personally get too cold below 20, but my daughter was fine at 18 or 19 degrees). At age 3 (before she was toilet trained at night), we dressed her in 3 layers of pajamas - sleeveless undershirt, cotton pajama shirt and pants and socks, fleece zip-up one-piece footed pajamas. This was plenty warm, warmer than an actual blanket. . . If it was super cold, we'd take out the undershirt and put 2 full layers of cotton pajamas and socks under the fleece zip-up one-piece footed pajamas. If already trained at night, just use fleece pajama shirt and pants and extra fuzzy socks instead of the one-piece and tuck the cotton and fleece shirts into the pants so she can go to the bathroom (and teach her how to tuck it back in if she wants).

Another good thing we did was teach her how to put her blanket back on by herself. We bought her toddler size blankets so she could manage them (in terms of size and weight) by herself, and kept one or two around the edge of her bed. If she was really cold, she learned to pull one on.