Help!!

[LostnFound]

I need anyone's help that might have some advice for me. I have a daughter that climbs in bed with my husband and I every night. She gets in bed with us in the middle of the night when we are both sleeping and we don't even realize it until one of us gets kicked.

I have tried a sticker chart with her. (didn't work) Putting her back in bed over and over. (she comes back after we have fallen asleep) Prizes when she wakes up in her own bed. (didn't interest her)

I have never dealt with this with my other children. I am at a loss of what to do so your suggestions would be very helpful.

She shares a room with her older sister and has a night light.

[Dia Minha]

LnF, all of our children have done this at one time or another. Once we had two that were in that stage at the same time and both would join us at least once. They have all grown out of it by the time they were 4 or 5. I don't know if that is any consolation to you. I don't have anything else to offer, because everything we tried didn't work either.

Good Luck, Dia

[Big_Sissy]

When out children have decided that they needed to do this, we told them to get a pillow and a blanket and they could sleep on the floor in our room, but NOT in our bed.

That seemed to work really well.

[5ft Diva]

That's what I was going to suggest, too. Our kids have been really good about respecting our space in our bed if we let them be in the same room w/ us but just on the floor. Eventually they end up preferring their bed to our floor. Sometimes, but very rarely, they still come in even now that they're older and they just bring the pillow and blanket in and crash on the floor if they've had a bad enough dream. It's a win/win situation - I'm glad they feel they can come to us w/o invading our space and they feel the security of being nearby.

[Dia Minha]

The sleeping on the floor thing never worked for us, because our kids were to tricky. The would wait until we dozed of again and climb on in. It is amazing how I will wake up out of the deepest sleep when I here the baby crying, but not even stir when one crawls right into bed with me.

Dia

[Big_Sissy]

That doesn't mean you don't need to firmly remind them that that is unacceptable. It almost never works on the first try.

But I know how that goes, what works for one does not a recipe for success make for another.

[smed]

I think all parents have been put through this some time in there lives. The thing that worked best for us consistancy. As soon as they would come into our beds we'd get up and put them right back into there bed. Yes! it sometimes took weeks. But it helped! Yes! alot of times I'd be so tired that I'd wake up in the morning and just then relize they were in my bed. But if this is really bothering you then try it.