Connor has never, and I mean NEVER, slept with Marcus and I in our bed...not even when he was a teeny tiny baby. He has always screamed when we have tried to make him sleep with us. Lately he has been watching DVD's in our bedroom while laying in our bed. He will let us lay by him to watch the movies so we thought maybe, just maybe, he would fall asleep watching a movie in our bed and end up sleeping with us.
First of all, I'm sure many of you think we're crazy, as I know a lot of parents struggle getting their kids to sleep away from them. We do not seriously want Connor to start sleeping with us all the time, we just think it is so funny that he refuses to.
Anway, we got bored enough tonight that we decided to conduct a little experiment. Connor did not have a nap today because of church and has been really sleepy. We took him into our bedroom, put on a Goodnight Sesame DVD, turned all the lights and everything off in the apartment, and laid down by him and pretended to fall asleep. He stayed there and watched the DVD, but as soon as it was over he jumped off the bed and went in the living room to turn the TV on out there. Oh yeah, all this after he screamed his head off about being in our bed (we pretended to be asleep the whole time). He is such an independent little guy.
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This is the opposite of my Landon! We can't get him out of our bed! He didn't start sleeping in our bed until a little after his second birthday, when he realized that he could climb out of his crib and get into bed with us. We can't keep him out now!!
we have the same problem (although not really a problem) with both are kids. they won't sleep in our beds. they won't even lay in our beds. some mornings i don't want to get out of bed (like this morning) and i just wish my kids would just get in and snuggle with me but they can't and won't do it. so i have to get up with them and go downstairs so they can play.
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