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Getting Kids to Sleep in Their Own Beds

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It's an unmistakable sound that wakes you up every time: the pitter patter of your toddler's feet coming into your room at night. Although many parents are excited by the prospect of moving a toddler out of a crib and into a bed, this is the downside: Your child can easily come into your bed in the night.

Some experts, like Meredith Small, a professor of cultural anthropology at Cornell University and author of "Our Babies, Our Selves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent," point out that co-sleeping is an evolutionary adaptation and that it is natural for babies and young children to want to sleep in bed with parents. Others, like sleep expert Dr. Richard Ferber, encourage parents to teach children to sleep on their own, arguing that "primitive" sleep...

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Mar 20, 2008 at 11:06:56 AM

I have a 2 year old who sleeps with me.  We live in a one bedroom.  What is the best way to get him into his own bed?

 

 

If I bring my child back to his room every night, how long will it take before he understands he can't sleep in my room?

 

  I think it is different with every child... I do know it is harder if they have slept with you since they were born though...

 

Is there an age where it is no longer beneficial to allow your child to sleep in your room?

   
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