Children sleeping in your bed, how do you get them to sleep in their own?

For me its definitely okay. After all they are children. By the time they grow 3 or 5 years from now, they them selves would sleep on their own room, or would request to have their own room. My advice enjoy while you still can sleep besides them, hug them while you sleep. Besides children feel safe and protected if they can feel or touch you while they sleep.

They just have different needs that's all. My nephews are the same.. the eldest used to do the same thing ( sleeps across etc ) you must warn her to stay in her own bed and be brave like her brother. I think that will work - if not I feel sorry for your devastating nights :D

My son slept in my bed from 6mths-2.5 yrs. With my boy i just had enough and forced him to sleep in his bed but he always has slept all night. My daughter on the other hand wakes up at least once a night. I usually try to give her something filling before bed and she sleeps good for the most part. I'm not sure how old your daughter is but since mine is 14mths it works well. If you daugher is young and still on the bottle you could try giving her a bottle of water when you put her to bed and tell her where it is because that could be what she wants is something to suck on. I would suggest a rubber top sippy cup if you don't want her to have bottles at bed. anyhoo I hope I could help Hugs

HMMMMMMMMM . . . Good luck to you!!! I have the same problem. I have a 5 yr. old girl and the only time she sleeps in her own bed is when she loses a tooth because I told her the tooth fairy doesn't pass if she's not in her bed. I am to blame too though because I could try more to make her sleep in her own bed, I'm just really lazy. I'm almost 5 months pregnant also and when I get home from work, I don't wanna do anything, so I just let her do what she wants. It is really uncomfortable trying to sleep with a kid on you when you have this big belly in front of you.

Hi, i think this problem is common and faced by many parents and i would say that this training ought to start whn the kids are a few months old. My elder daughter was hardly 6 months old when she had her own room all to herself and she wa just fine except for those initial week of crying off and on and getting adjusted to the surroundings. My younger one was no problems as she loved to sleep by her sisters side, but they were no problems at all. When they are young, they have lesser fears of the unknown and are trained to sleep in their own rooms and do not know what it means to be in the parents rooms, so they remain fine, but as they grow older, its tougher to get them remain in their own rooms, and thats a shame for such old kids to remain in parents room, giving them no privacy too. But, now as your childs old enough and you are having problems and a re expecting, i would suggest that you harden yourself up and be firm, and put her in her seprate oom, with her brother. Yes, she will cry, fret , fume, howl, be very dificult too, but either put cotton buds in your ears or just turn a deaf ear to her, so that she takes her time and gets adjusted to remain in her own room too.she will take time, but once she realises, that this is what she HAS to do, she will do it, but you have to remain harsh, hard and frm for a few days, take it a s atraining period and once shes settled down, you will have no problems. You can make her room interesting and leave her with things she liks and explain nicely that shes to be inm her room etc, and iof all that does not work, just force her and let her be, as crying etc, will nto last too long and she will get used to it soon.

hi, princessmom1011..i still single and not yet get married.. so i din't have children.. when i small, i never sleep at my parents bed.. i like to sleep at my own bed.. it is nice sleep own bed..if my children sleep at my bed, i will hug my children back to their own bed..

i guess when you want to have your child sleep in his/her own bed, you have to escort her/him there. Then you tell him/her a nice tale from a book (probably harry potter or the like) but slowly , you stay with your child, and begin to read but steady you read with your voice volume just every minute a bit lower, until it sleeps. Then you leave the room very quiet, so your child would keep on sleeping until the next morning. Put the card in the book where you stopped reading because your child sleeps, so you can continue the next evening.