My 2 year old is a reasonably light sleeper. He sleeps with white noise on max volume (iphone app), and generally sleeps through our night time moving around OK.When we have house guests, all bets are off. There are new noises, and people who aren't used to being quiet because there is a sleeping kid in the house, and it leads to disastrous nights like last night, where a guest woke him up 3 times between when he went to bed and she did, and caused him to wake every hour through the night afterwards because of the disturbance.I turned on the dryer (2nd floor laundry room) which worked to an extent, but we can't leave it on all night.The things that cause the most problem:The light switches for the guest bathroom are next to his room, and are very "clicky". We're going to swap these for quieter switches.Many of our visitors do not turn a handle when they close a door, they just push/pull it (effectively slamming it as far as the noise is concerned). This one is guarantee to wake him up, but the doors do still need to be able to latch and/or lock. Requests to close the doors quietly are ignored or forgotten.Squeaky floorboards - our house is made of crappy materials, and every freaking floorboard creaks. We've tried the squeak-proofing screws, and they have done nothing. We have a combination of hardwood, tile and carpet.For some reason, our guests feel the need to rip the suctioned on bath mat out of the tub after their night time showers. The tub shares a wall with my son's room, and this is pretty noisy. We need the mat to prevent slipping (it's also the tub my son uses for his baths).Any smart ideas other parents have found for any of these problems?Getting him used to more noise in the house doesn't seem feasible when we have guests rarely, but when we have people staying for 2 weeks, I can't afford to spend every night on the floor of his room, comforting him after he wakes up scared at every loud noise. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2hwKvfX
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