GETTING YOUR 3 YEAR OLD TO SLEEP IN THEIR QON BED

[STILLAWAKE27]

We have a three year old son that still sleeps in our bed! He has done this since birth. We only had a two bedroom house with a roommate. So Max has slept with us. We have another son who is going to be two in Nov. and has slept on his own since birth. The problem that we have is that my wife and I have another one on the way!!! How do we get our oldest to start sleeping in his own bed?????????????  We don't want to traumatize him or make him think we don't love him anymore (which is kind of how we are feeling.)  Plus he's now used to a TV on before bed and we don't want that habit to continue.


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[margypops]

Cold Turkey ...where ever he is sleeping, put him to bed after some nice stories, then you have to leave ,yes you will feel guilty, he will yell ,he will come out, take him quietly back, no noise, you may have to do it a lot, but he will get it in the end, consistancy is the answer ...if you give way you are back to square one, or you can have the Family bed that a lot of families do have, and enjoy its a matter of choices. .