How do I get on a regular sleep schedule?

How do I get my 2 year old daughter back on a schedule and get sleep myself?

• Okay so i had my daughter on a pretty good schedule since she was born. I had to move in with my mom for a while and in her house "kids make there own schedule" so she ended up have no schedule at all cause my mother would not let me parent cause the way i did it was supposedly wrong. I was able to go back to my place but now its very difficult to get her to go to sleep. And if i get her to sleep she wakes up and will Just cry and cry and i end up with no sleep. Its been almost a month and no matter how hard a try she will just either not sleep or not stay asleep and im starting to get a little crazy at work cause im so tired. Any tips? I have tried staying in the room with her but she will just lay there and not sleep for hours and hours. I have tried ignoringher but she screams of hours and i have a family that lives above me that she ends up them waking up.

• Answer:

  My partner works away and EVERY time he comes home, routine goes out the window! To get my two back into routine, I do the bath/bottle/book/bed thing. If they get out of bed or keep screaming, I just go in, put them back in to bed (no talking) and leave the room. This can sometimes take over an hour of repeatedly going up and down the stairs and many times I want to scream (!) but after 2 or 3 days they realise that they will not get their own way. as for the screaming, do they stop once you go in the room? if they do, then try putting them back to bed then leaving the room for 5-10 mins at a time. After a few days they should settle. GOOD LUCK!! I really feel for you!