Confession: my daughter is six years previous, and we nonetheless have a video monitor in her room. I don’t stream it whereas she’s asleep. In reality, I hardly ever have a look at the footage in any respect, however for some motive, I simply don’t really feel able to take it out of her room. She nonetheless will get up in the course of the night time generally, or if I hear a bizarre crash in her room, I can rapidly open the app and see she knocked over a lamp within the midst of a sleep position change. I suppose I simply really feel like I’ll know when it’s time to take the monitor out.
One mother questioned when different dad and mom determined that it’s time to tug the plug on monitoring and posted her story in the /Parenting subreddit.
The unique poster (OP), a toddler mother with one other on the way in which, says she makes use of the child monitor each single night time. She was particularly grateful for the surveillance after her two-year-old obtained caught in her crib slats, and he or she was in a position to assist her earlier than she hit absolute panic mode.
With one other child on the way in which, she’s questioning if she ought to simply take their current video monitor out of the two-year-old’s room and hand it over to the child.
“… we perceive that she’s not going to have to be monitored ceaselessly,” she stated.
A number of Reddit dad and mom admitted that they, too, nonetheless had a monitor of their older child’s rooms whereas others nixed the displays as soon as they had been extra unbiased sleepers.
“My son’s 4 and I nonetheless maintain it on. I feel I am going to ultimately cease once I know he’ll sleep via the night time with out fail. I’ve had just a few situations the place hes woken and simply stood at his door within the night time,” one mother wrote.
“I’ve a 2 12 months previous and nearly 5 12 months previous and haven’t turned the displays on at night time in most likely a 12 months,” one other admitted. “I exploit them through the day to look at my 4 12 months previous throughout her quiet time, although. I like to have the ability to see what she’s doing in her room and ensure it’s protected.”
“We stopped as soon as they had been out of the crib and will get away from bed and their room to come back get us on their very own in the event that they wanted one thing,” one other stated.
One mother stated that they had been by no means video monitor individuals and opted for an old style audio monitor.
“I do know this is not useful to your particular set of choices — however we solely ever used audio displays (quite than video), in order that we may hear if child was crying (our room was on a unique ground),” they stated.
“Our youngest is 7 and we truly nonetheless have them arrange — we simply use it as an intercom between the flooring, so as an alternative of calling up the steps for them to come back down, I can converse to them via the monitor. I have a tendency to depart it off more often than not when they’re enjoying…..my mind can solely tolerate listening to barbie video games for therefore lengthy.”
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