Is it normal for children to wake up EVERY SINGLE night & come into our bed? My 6 year-old daughter & 3 year-old son come into our bed every night; regardless of how long we stay with them in their room or bed, if we leave after they are asleep, they will inevitably wake up & come into our bed! We have tried staying with them for both short & long periods, until they appear to be in a deep sleep, but at some point each night, they always wake up & if either my wife or me is not there, they will come into our bed & go back to sleep. We've tried walking them back to their room & staying with them until they fall back asleep, but if we leave, they always wake up & come back into our bed. Because this always occurs in the middle of the night, sometimes we don't even realize they've come into until the morning, but most times the disturbance to our sleep affects us so much that we will often just let them stay there instead of walking them back into their beds. How do we get our children to sleep throughout the night so they will stay in their own bed?