How to Get Him to Stay in His Own Bed?

i may be a horrible mom for doing this but iour son was inour room ina toddler bed until just recent;y when we moved he finally had his own room. So now to keep him in his room at night we put up a gate so he cant wander around the house if he gets up at night. if he wakes up we hear him and go in and lay him back down and stay till he is sleeping. Now we are waiting a bit longer to go in once we hear him at night so that he can go back to bed himself. My sister says it is not cooll to cage him in but it is only at night and i know if he is in there he is not falling down the stairs half asleep or getting something unsafe from the kitchen. so think what you will but it is working for us!! good luck

we told our son when the sun comes up you can come get in bed with us, but when the sun is in its bed you need to be in yours. we also tried to make his room special, by putting car lights around his window, so it wasnt too dark. best of luck.

You should escort him back to his own bed in a very calm manner each and every time he gets up. I wouldn't let him fall asleep in your bed at all. No exceptions (unless he's sick, of course!). No arguments. (You're the adult. You make the rules. You don't have to explain or justify them aside from saying "Mommy sleeps in Mommy's bed and you sleep in your bed.") Just be persistent and consistent.

My almost-4 year old still hopes to sleep with me. (Just last night he came trotting into my room at 11 p.m., pointed at the space in between me and my husband and announced there was "room right there for ME, Mama!" It was cute and funny, but it didn't work. I told him that he still had to go 'nigh night in his own bed. He wasn't happy, but he did go back to his own room.

(Some may criticize this, but it worked for me...) When my daughter would wake up and come into our room(though it wasn't very often), I just picked her up, hugged her and put her back in her own bed. I'd give her a flashlight (a small lightweight one bought at the dollar store with a button she can press to turn on/off. It's worked really well so far and after the novelty of the flashlight wore off, it rarely gets used...

I will admit, I love the idea of cuddling in bed with my daughter too because she is so high energy, she won't snuggle with me during the days... HOWEVER, my sister let her son sleep in her bed when he was 2 and now he is over 6 and STILL sleeps in her bed!!! He won't even go to sleep without her going to bed. I've learned from her mistake!! :) Unless my daughter is sick, she's in her bed. if she's had a bad dream, I'll cuddle her for a while til she calms down and then tell her she has to go back to her bed in two minutes...

good luck!

Two is a transition point for learning how to sleep on one's own in one's own big bed. I know I can't sleep with t 2 year old they're muchtoo active. I feel like a football!

He apparently really liked cuddling with you at night. Now you're going to have to put your foot down. Explain to him that you can't sleep with him and that he's a big boy now, and will have to sleep in his own bed. Maybe there's a reward, like getting up earlier i the morning to read a story, or some other reward to give him for complying.