intheburbs wrote:
PS - we started very young with our kids - no sleeping in our bed whether we were traveling or not. If the kids were really scared - nightmare, lightning/thunder, whatever - they slept on our floor, never our bed. You have to break that habit; sooner rather than later. Otherwise, before you know it, you'll have an eight year-old that still wants to sleep with you.
That is some of the worst "advice" I have read on this forum, and that's saying a lot.
Sorry, but I find it odd that when your CHILD gets scared, you make him/her sleep on the floor. That just goes against all of my natural parenting instincts. I'm a man, by the way.
It's amazing that advanced cultures in Europe and Asia don't push their kids off into another room, yet they still manage to have privacy, be intimate, and raise normal children, isn't it?
I am the parent of a going-on-3-year-old, and if he wants to sleep with us, at home or while camping, that is fine with me.
He's my son. What is more important at 2-3 years old than his sense of security? I would never tell him to sleep on the floor.
Did you not put diapers on your child because, well, "before you know it, you'll have an eight year-old that still wears diapers?"
How silly...and also incorrect, according to the research. Google is a pretty good tool.
