How old it "too old" for a baby monitor?

Question

Our daughter will be 3 in August and I am 29 weeks pregnant with our second daughter. I still have the baby monitor in our daughter's room and as I am preparing for baby, I am thinking about getting another baby monitor to put in the baby's room. I just do not think 3 is old enough of be "monitor less". I even joke with my husband that our girls will have baby monitors until they are 16. At what age did you take the baby monitor out of your child's room?

Answer 1

I think once the child thinks it's weird to have it in there then that's when u should take it out, but before then i don't think any age is too old.



I know kids who are 7/1/2 and 5 and they still have monitors in there rooms and they both are still fine with it and it makes both of them as well as there parents feel safer, and so i don't think there is anything wrong with it.



I still have a video monitor in my 22 month old son's room and plan to keep it in there til he doesn't want it in there anymore (hopefully til he is at least 5 or so)



Hope this helps and good luck, :D



EDIT: Avodah - Sorry but having a monitor in an child's bedroom is not creepy, esp. a child that is only 3 years old, and i think it's only wrong if the child complains about it, which most kids don't care til they are much older than 3, like 7, 8 or older. To me it makes it safer, esp.if ur bedroom and ur child's bedroom are far apart and/or u are a heavy sleeper. Maybe it's not right for u or ur kids but it's not creepy either.

Answer 2

I only used it for maybe a week when I first brought my daughter home. Her room was right across the hall from mine so I could hear her perfectly fine without it. I still am not sure where I'm putting the new baby I have on the way, but if I do end up putting it in my spare bedroom on the 1st floor of my house, then I would plan to use the baby monitor until it is sleeping through the night.

Answer 3

Whoever said it was "creepy" has issues. If your child's room isn't positioned close enough to yours to hear when she wakes up, how are you supposed to know when she wakes up? I have a two and a half year old, and we have to keep the door handle guards on his door or he will leave his room in the night when he wakes up. Our room is on the other side or the house, if we didn't have a monitor he would be roaming the house all night and we would never know! I would say use it until its convenient and possible to not use it anymore. Every child is different, and that gives no one the right to look down on you, especially when you only on here for an answer to a question. Good luck with the new baby!

Answer 4

Use the monitor until YOU are comfortable. My son is 20 months and we have the TV baby monitor, were we can hear and see him. I don't plan on taking it down anytime soon. It give us a piece of mind, that and both my husband and I are heavy sleepers, so if we didn't hear the monitor, we wouldn't be able to hear him call out for us or cry.



This is your family, and you do whats best for you and your children. It's NOT CREEPY at all. Now if your child was 16 years old with a baby monitor still in her room.. that's a different story. LOL. :)

Answer 5

My son was 3 when my daughter was born and since she didn't go right into her room he continued to use the monitor until she was 6 months. So he was 3.5 there rooms are side by side so I can hear him on her monitor if he's doing anything but no I can't see him anymore and it has been fine..It's been like this for a year and now it seems silly I was worried about taking it out of his room.

Answer 6

I honestly only ever used them when my son was a new new new new newborn. That's when he would take naps and I would try to do dishes and what not, but as for as having one when we put him in his own room at 9 months, we just didn't feel like he really NEEDED it. Our rooms are close enough that if he is breathing heavily my motherly instincts kick right in and I'm wide awake.



It really is up to you, if I had a 2 story house or we had rooms at the opposite end of the house I could see my son definitely benifiting from one at 2, but I like I said, in my situation it isn't necessary, I honestly don't even have one anymore and I'm having a baby in two days..lol.



Also, we have a baby gate infront of his door incase he tries to get sneaky and slip out of bed at night.



Just to add to what you added about your 3 year old neighbor, I don't have a moniter but you better believe when my son is taking a nap the door is opened and I go in there and check on him periodically, you don't need a moniter to ensure your child isn't doing something dangerous, you just need to be aware that your child COULD do something dangerous and check on them every now and then.

Answer 7

I am additionally 14 and fairly YES they have got to take it OUT! I have only recently moved rooms from upstairs (Where they sleep, and in which I percentage a room with my 2 sisters) to downstairs in my possess room. If they did whatever like that I could utterly freak out! I realize the complete my condo my laws factor however that so much privateness you deserve! Also there's a cause it's referred to as a BABY track no longer a 14 12 months historical track. If your mother and father fairly do not believe you that so much you may also desire to paintings for your courting along with your mother and father.

Answer 8

2, if we even had a monitor. I co-sleep for the first few months anyway, and depending on the arrangement sometimes I didn't even bother with monitors. If they can climb up or down stairs by themselves and come get you when they need something, and they are past SIDS risk, 16-18mos at most, they don't need a monitor. Crying it out is useless and even cruel for infants, but a three year old is not an infant and she doesn't a monitor by now unless she has a chronic illness or behavioral problems that require you to check on her. Too much monitoring and checking past infancy creates overdependent kids who know they don't have to do anything for themselves because mommy and daddy are at their beck and call, and who can't do anything for themselves becuase they've never been allowed or made to. If they're always monitored, they don't even have to make an effort! They don't even have to wake themselves up or walk 10 feet down a hallway to ask for breakfast. It's ludicrous! Humanity got on fine without monitors until the last 20 years or so. It's time to cut the umbilical cord.

Answer 9

Uh, yeah that's actually kinda creepy. Your 3 yr old has a baby monitor? Come on, she can get out of bed herself if she wakes up, right? I'm assuming she doesn't have serious mental or physical disabilities, like Down's or being blind? She isn't crying at night for milk or in danger of SIDS?



I think it's time to cut the apron strings just a little. You may be comforted by it, but not only is it unnecessary, but when WERE you planning to take out the monitor? Try not to impose your own emotional needs on your children.

Answer 10

I guess it all depends on YOUR needs and need to hear your child. We have one that is in our 4 yr old's room and it comes in handy when we go down stairs and into the hot tub outside. We can always hear her if she wakes up and needs something and we are not close enough to hear her.

Answer 11

I got rid of my monitors as soon as I knew the baby could cry loud enough for me to