Why do toddlers want to sleep in their parents' bed?

There are many reasons why toddlers want to sleep with you. 1. Your toddler feels more secured when we co-sleep with him, so he/she sleeps way better. 2. read more

In fact, toddlers regularly sleep with their parents around the world. In Bali, children regularly sleep with their mothers until the age of 3 (Diener, 2000). In Japan, family members traditionally sleep in the same room, with many children even sharing their parents’ bed (Fukumizu et al., 2005). read more

If parents are comfortable having cold feet poke into their ribs and their king size bed being all but taken up by a 3 feet high toddler, so be it! Let them stay there. Lots of parents love sleeping with their children and find that the bedtime routine is much easier that way and that there is a closeness there unattainable elsewhere. read more

Plenty of toddlers, preschoolers, even school-aged children nationwide are sleeping with their parents at least some of the time. According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), as many as 24% of parents have their children sleep in their beds for at least part of the night. read more

A Waking Toddler is a common concern for parents, with research showing that over half of children over one are waking regularly (Scher, 2001) and at least one-third of all parents of toddlers report having a 'significant problem' with their child's sleep (Armstrong, Quinn, & Dadds, 1994). read more