sleep training

It's amazing how bad things can get without you realizing. Three nights ago, our son would keep himself awake by keeping his light on, playing, singing, whining-- anything, until we went to bed. Then he would sleep on our floor. He would not sleep in his bed; he insisted on the light on and the door open. It was pretty bad.
Well, I can make my peace with the door open, but the rest of that had to go.
So, we decided to cut all of it at the same time. We made him a new nighttime chart and got him a star nightlight. We make him sleep in his bed with his light off, and we're teaching him to put himself back to sleep instead of getting up in the middle of the night. We still have some screaming every now and then, but for the past 3 nights, this has been the result:


Glorious.