Sleep Walking

My son has never slept in his bed through the night for any real duration of time. He is four now, and I believe that he is sleep walking most every night into my room.  He is very intelligent, he also has sensory integration dysfunction if that has anything to do with it, and he told me the other morning that he was sorry he was in my bed in the morning but that he didn

[Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D.]

Dear Ne-C,

No, sleepwalking, a form of partial waking, cannot be stopped. It generally wanes as children develop and mature.

However, it's not likely that your son's getting into your bed is a reflection of sleepwalikg per se. If you're aware this is happening, guide your son back to bed. If the behavior truly is sleepwalking, he will have no reaction. If the behavior is not sleepwalking, he may well react with some reluctance, but persist nonetheless.