My son slept in my bed for a few years after we stopped living in the van. I think he felt insecure. But he's been in his own room for awhile now and I think he's full to the top with snuggles and affection, and he likes his own space.

I remember feeling weird about it. My parents were very unaffectionate. I remember my mom letting me sleep on her floor when I had nightmares. But now I see that there's nothing weird about being close. You still have boundaries, but some kids need a little extra comfort. It was difficult what we went through and we only had each other.

I did attachment parenting and my daughter coslept till she was 7 and choose to move in to her own room. She had it all set up for when she was ready.
I had nightmares and insomnia and was never allowed to sleep with my parents for comfort. I would never want my child to feel that unsafe.
A lot of people say they’ll never leave but she’s older now and never comes for cuddles anymore. She’s very secure.

My 7 y/o daughter will not sleep in her own bed every night when she stays with me, but we're working on it. I won't deny her the right of feeling safe when she stays with me.

She has a bunk bed in her room with space for her and one other person but she hasn't had any friends from school ask to stay over.

As I do not have any adult romantic partner there is no other person here that would need or want to sleep in my bed besides me normally.

When my kid was really little her dad worked nights so I let her sleep with just me probably 2/3 of the time. When her dad switched to day shift when she was about 2.5 the kibosh got put on that real quick. We only had a Queen sized and it wasn't super comfortable with the 3 of us, even though she was pretty small. Had I been a single parent or my husband continued working opposite shifts I'd probably have let my kid stay a few more years. I didn't really mind it.

You know I don't have kids. Yet I did once have roommates with kids several times.

There were occasions where we slept together yet I do admit it was rare.

Kids do sleepwalk. And you really can't stop that type of thing easy.

This even happened when I was a kid. Mom didn't make an issue of it.

As a teen that did stop. Even the sleepwalking.

I didn't sleep in my parents bed as a kid. We would spend summer breaks & winter breaks at our grandma's & she let us sleep in her bed though. She only had room for 1 at a time so me & my siblings used to fight over who got to sleep with her that night & we would take turns. That faded away somewhere between age 8 to 10 though.

It was mainly because if we didn't share her bed, we slept on the floor or couch 😅 but it was also because we just loved being around our grandma

I was not allowed to do that . It was go to bed and don't move until morning or else.
My child can get up and go wherever they feel like and wake me up if they are scared. We are pretty chummy and watch stuff together and just hang out. But they have their own bed and bedroom .

Thats interesting, and probaby was they way back even 75 years ago - know my parents were both form big families and had to share a bed at night with siblings.

If I had a bad dream I would ask my parents to sleep with them but then my dad would carry me back to my bed in the night.

I personally don’t think it’s a good idea to share the bed with kids regularly. How are you ever going to share privacy and intimacy with your spouse?

I encourage my 3 to sleep in their own beds but bedtime routine is relaxed and if I can get one of them to sleep in their own bed or stay in one spot all night it’s a good night. I’ve a 8,5.&3 year old.

Our kids slept with us for a while, but I snore so they were happy to get their own rooms. ;)
Now the dog sleeps with us. To me closeness and warm bodies = love.

Not regularly. I can't ever remember sleeping in my parents' bed. I've got lots of sisters and although I didn't share a bed I would have gone to one of them first before mum and dad.

My kids always had their own beds.Ive had friends who allowed their children in their beds till they were 12. I always thought it strange and it seemed they were slower developing mentally. Just my observations.

Never happened when I was a kid. We each had our own bed and mom & dad had theirs. My parents were young though and looking back I see tons of things showing they wanted their privacy. I was rarely in their room, nevermind on their bed.

When my daughters couldn’t sleep, I would go sit by their bed and read them a story or just talk with them until they were asleep. Then I would check on them once or twice to make sure that they were fully asleep.

It was never the routine thing to do with our daughter, but there were times when we brought her into bed with us when she was a baby. She was terrible at sleeping through the night in her crib, and sometimes we just could not get her to get back to sleep any other way.

I remember my Gran telling us about dad. he had watched Psycho on the telly and he slept in their bed every night for a week and a few years later he seen the exorcist at the pictures and slept with the lights on for weeks afterwards

Yes, we sometimes had one kid or the other in bed with us if it would help them fall asleep or whatever.

Yup. And a lot of parents don't equate bedtime with sexy time. A lot of them do that outside of sleep hours or when kids aren't home.

I’m not really comfortable answering a question like this in great detail on SW.

But no, this is not and was not a normal thing for us.

My parents did let me watch movies with them in their bed as a kid and I occasionally fell asleep while watching but they usually carried me to my bed if I did

We never did.
But,on occasion they'd nap with us.

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My daughter slept with me when she was a newborn but not after that

Occasionally if we were really upset or feeling unwell when we were very little bit not often or just because. Once we passed out we got carried to bed