Do you have issues with your children waking in the night and you sleeping through it?

Answer: When my ds was getting up constantly we bought a sensor you attached to the wall (we put on our tall computer case). Plug in the other part of the sensor in your bedroom and it will wake you up when someone walks in front of that sensor. My ds is to old now and we can't "pretend" it for the dog anymore... he knows it is for him and wants to play with it. So it's been put away, now 9 out of… read more

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My couch is my bed. My son wakes up in the middle of the night but he has done this since he was a baby. He would just get up and lay next to… read more

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There's very inexpensive "door alarms" at walmarts. I put one on my bedroom door because my son was sneaking in there and… read more

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The door alarms were to loud...we had one going down the stairs when we first moved in. The sensor that we bought later you can put anywhere… read more

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