Do your kids still sleep on your bed?

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Sun, 05 Aug 2012 02:56:54 GMT

shopaholic — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 02:56:54 GMT

My kids slept in their cots in our bedroom since they were babies. So in a way, they have never shared my bed. When they were about 1+, we moved the cot to their own bedroom and they have slept in a separate room since. The only exception is my youngest son who is 2+ now. He wants to sleep in a mattress in the living room.

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:38:15 GMT

mummy so kiasu — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:38:15 GMT

Funz:
1st step was to move 1 kid off our bed onto a mattress in our room, that was DD when she was 2yrs old.

2nd step was to move DS off our bed onto another mattress in our room, that was when he was 2yrs old
3rd step was to move both of them into a different room, DS was 4 and DD was 6yrs old, I think.
Final step, move them into their own bedrooms. No more sharing room. That happened this year, DS 7, DD 9yrs old.

And on weekends, we move them all back into our room.

Wow.. Very interesting moves. Sound like playing chess but without checkmate. I like your weekends move the most. Part of family bonding!

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:23:57 GMT

Funz — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:23:57 GMT

1st step was to move 1 kid off our bed onto a mattress in our room, that was DD when she was 2yrs old.

2nd step was to move DS off our bed onto another mattress in our room, that was when he was 2yrs old
3rd step was to move both of them into a different room, DS was 4 and DD was 6yrs old, I think.
Final step, move them into their own bedrooms. No more sharing room. That happened this year, DS 7, DD 9yrs old.

And on weekends, we move them all back into our room.

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:27:48 GMT

mummy so kiasu — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:27:48 GMT

BeContented:
Imami:
There is always a man in my bed every night, it is a matter of which one. When hubby is in sg, he usually gets his way (i.e. Sleeps in the bedroom with me) and child has to be contented with his own bed. When hubby is out of town for work, the little man will automatically 打包 his pillow, bolster and soft toy and camp over at mummy's.

Haha. Same here.
Whenever hubby travel, kids will insist on sleeping with me. Now that both kids are bigger, 3 is too crowded, so they gotta take turns.
When kid is sick, they will kick daddy off to their bed & sleep with me.

3 is really crowded. At least your kids are willing to take turn. Both of my kids insist sleeping with me & they end up talking & I end up scolding. :frustrated:

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:44:21 GMT

BeContented — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:44:21 GMT

Imami:
There is always a man in my bed every night, it is a matter of which one. When hubby is in sg, he usually gets his way (i.e. Sleeps in the bedroom with me) and child has to be contented with his own bed. When hubby is out of town for work, the little man will automatically 打包 his pillow, bolster and soft toy and camp over at mummy's.

Haha. Same here.
Whenever hubby travel, kids will insist on sleeping with me. Now that both kids are bigger, 3 is too crowded, so they gotta take turns.
When kid is sick, they will kick daddy off to their bed & sleep with me.

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:39:11 GMT

Imami — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:39:11 GMT

There is always a man in my bed every night, it is a matter of which one. When hubby is in sg, he usually gets his way (i.e. Sleeps in the bedroom with me) and child has to be contented with his own bed. When hubby is out of town for work, the little man will automatically 打包 his pillow, bolster and soft toy and camp over at mummy’s.

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:12:34 GMT

puff — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:12:34 GMT

My dd1 sleep in her own room when we move house ... That's when she is 2yr old. Now my dd2 is 2 yo , try to move her to the same room with jiejie n they end up playing n talking instead of sleeping.:(

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:23:36 GMT

tankee — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:23:36 GMT

DS crawled into our bed last night and squeezed in between both of us. He said he had a nightmare.

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:11:34 GMT

mummy so kiasu — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:11:34 GMT

ChiefKiasu:
caroline3sg:
Is sleeping together bonding?

Hard to bond with my daughter either kicking me out of the bed or whacking me in my face or stomach now and then :? But it saves electricity since we can all enjoy the aircon in 1 room

The same thing happen to me when my P6 boy sharing my bed with me. He is timid & dare not sleep by himself. Telling me he got nightmare or he heard some noise in the night. My P1 girl also end up sleeping on my bed. Since Kor Kor can sleep on mummy's bed, why can't she? Ha ..ha.. Can you imagine how crowded is my bed? Only pro is can save on electricity. Just need to on one air con.

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:28:34 GMT

MEinME — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:28:34 GMT

Since birth, my girl (now 6YO) had been sleeping on her own bed with helper on a pull out bed. She had started to bunk in with us when she was 3-4YO, Fri, Sat & next day PH are bunk in days.

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:38:27 GMT

huanghou — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:38:27 GMT

Well, after months of complaining about our DD (6yo) not sleeping on her own, we decided to put our foot down and insisted she occupy her own room. But then mummy and daddy missed her so we ended up with one squeezing on her single bed and the other one on the floor. Finally it still felt better to all migrate back to our king size bed in the master room...conclusion is that we all love to cuddle up

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Sun, 20 May 2012 18:15:28 GMT

Quizzer — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:15:28 GMT

My ds1 is 5 this yr, we bought his a 6inch mattress to put on the floor next to our bed to sleep when he was 10 months old. Now that we have our own house, he share his room with his baby brother. We just shift ds2 from our master bedroom to his brother room last month when he was only 6 months old.

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Tue, 01 May 2012 14:32:55 GMT

fifiyeo — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:32:55 GMT

Mine no.1 is already 11. Still sleeping in our room on a mattress. Younger one on our bed. Doesn’t bother us 'cos we know that come teenage years, they won’t even want to jump on our beds even if we invite them to do so.

Younger one doesn’t want to move out so older one also don’t want to move out. I guess fighting for attention.

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:47:22 GMT

Dazzle — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:47:22 GMT

After 10 yrs he is still sleeping in my bed

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:16:07 GMT

DesertWind — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:16:07 GMT

Dazzle:
It isn't easy if the kid keep crying until he puke. To save the trouble of have to clean up the puke, change blanket, change sheet etc and then end up sleepless, I just let my son sleep on our bed.

Hi Dazzle,
How old is your boy?

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:28:44 GMT

Dazzle — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:28:44 GMT

It isn’t easy if the kid keep crying until he puke. To save the trouble of have to clean up the puke, change blanket, change sheet etc and then end up sleepless, I just let my son sleep on our bed.

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:26:28 GMT

LOLMum — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:26:28 GMT

chixchix:
My 9 & 7 Year old ,have been sleeping with us & for the past 2 months, they have been sleeping in another room, with my maid on the floor beside them.

I have specified that only weekends they can sleep in my room. Most often when they do, my hubby ends up sleeping on the sofa outside, and I sleep on the mattress on the floor, while the boys take up space on the bed. Recently, my kids dont want to sleep with the maid ,she is super blur and will snore away ,and the kids can run out of the room ,without her knowing.

Sometimes, hubby wants to get cosy wif me, and when i stop him as the boys are with us,, he sleeps on the sofa and sends me angry SMS. i really dono how to deal with this situation. I keep explaing to the boys that they are big enough to sleep on their own, but they dont care.

be firm. the boys are old enough not to share a room with mum and dad. each time they come running into your room (crying or whatsoever in the middle of the nite), just be firm and take them back to their room and stay with them for a while, let them fall asleep again, then back to your room you go. either that or you let them sleep in your bed (after they come crying) and carry them back to their room.

put a small light in their room so that it is not total darkness or open the curtain for the street light to shine into the room.

your hubby is not too happy about not being able to cuddle up to you and he is sleeping in the living room. well, be careful, you have a maid in the house. sometimes in the darkness and still half awake, anything can go wrong.

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:10:47 GMT

DesertWind — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:10:47 GMT

My 4.5 yo has been sleeping with us in the master-bedroom since birth and we were wondering how to get him to sleep in his own room! In the first place, we need to prepare a room for him and that was occupied by the maid. There is a third smaller room occupied by the baby.

Recently, we decided we must migrate him out already otherwise poor hubby won’t get proper sleep. Me? I have been a floater since my BB was born either in the baby’s room or sleeping out on the sofa.

So we recently got some movers to help us move the furniture around, move the maid to sleep with the BB and then make the 2nd bedroom almost exactly like the master-bedroom ie. we push two single beds together so that it is almost exactly like the king-size bed in the master-bedroom! This is very important because if we were to try to make my boy sleep in a single-bed, I don’t think the migration is going to be very successful! True enough after we put on the bedsheets, it seems almost like the master-bedroom already and my boy readily took to sleeping in his own bedroom!

But hor, one of us still need to keep him company ok? Was initially me but now it is daddy’s turn. So I get to come back to the master-bedroom after all! Ke…ke…ke…

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:03:15 GMT

chixchix — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:03:15 GMT

My 9 & 7 Year old ,have been sleeping with us & for the past 2 months, they have been sleeping in another room, with my maid on the floor beside them.

I have specified that only weekends they can sleep in my room. Most often when they do, my hubby ends up sleeping on the sofa outside, and I sleep on the mattress on the floor, while the boys take up space on the bed. Recently, my kids dont want to sleep with the maid ,she is super blur and will snore away ,and the kids can run out of the room ,without her knowing.

Sometimes, hubby wants to get cosy wif me, and when i stop him as the boys are with us, he sleeps on the sofa and sends me angry SMS. i really dono how to deal with this situation. I keep explaing to the boys that they are big enough to sleep on their own, but they dont care.

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:22:44 GMT

fightingmom — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:22:44 GMT

MrBig:
MrBig:
lol~!

My DD who is only 2 yrs old has effectively kicked me out of bed with my wife. hahaha
But the fun side is before her bedtime, she will always wanna sleep on daddy's bed ... which is the mattress on the floor.
So cute .... it's like she just wants to be where I am ...
Haha~!
Dearest Wife is pregnant again !@!!!!! WooHoo!@@@!

:congrats:

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:21:05 GMT

MrBig — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:21:05 GMT

MrBig:
lol~!

My DD who is only 2 yrs old has effectively kicked me out of bed with my wife. hahaha
But the fun side is before her bedtime, she will always wanna sleep on daddy's bed ... which is the mattress on the floor.
So cute .... it's like she just wants to be where I am ...

Haha~!
Dearest Wife is pregnant again !@!!!!! WooHoo!@@@!
But she wont be able to keep lifting DD up into the bed (after she's fallen asleep), coz I'm afraid I'll squash her.
I cant carry my daughter into bed coz my arms are really big... and... so far... every attempt has woken her up.

Now we got a serious space issue, anybody got any advice how to cram 2 kids & 2 adults into 1 bedroom???

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:00:04 GMT

fightingmom — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:00:04 GMT

My DD also \"migrated\" when she turns 7. By getting her involved in decorating her own bedroom, choosing her own bed and bedsheets (yes, bought her favourite princesses bedsheets ) helped in the successful move from our bed to her own bed. In long term, it is not advisable to allow the child to share the same bed for too long.

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:05:41 GMT

marmaduke.011065chow — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:05:41 GMT

Our youngest son used to be afraid of the idea of sleeping alone at night. Our solution was to get him involved and excited about creating a really cozy “big boy bedroom” for him. He chose a jungle theme with a loft bed he calls his tree. He is so fond of his tree now we have a new problem. Getting him out of it!

Reply to Do your kids still sleep on your bed? on Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:31:33 GMT

huanghou — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:31:33 GMT

We recently insisted our DD (6yo) emigrate to her own room and when we found that she can be independent we heaved a sigh of relief so now she can simply apply per entry visa to come back. No questions ask!

Agree it helps with bonding. We kiss hug and cuddle... So sweet and so cute when she is not doing ballet kicks... Some people think this is not healthy but if it makes all 3 of us happy that's all it matters. Besides very soon she will one day want to be on her own. Then we will sure suffer empty nest syndrome. So why not enjoy while it lasts? :please: