Transitioning to toddler bed

With my son it took him awhile to get used to sleeping in his own bed. I was living with him alone in a one bedroom apartment, so there were a lot of times I had to carry him out of my bed to go sleep in his own. When we moved to our current house, though not so much a toddler anymore, he had no troubles sleeping in his own bed. He does have his own TV, but that's up to you to decide if it's worthwhile to have one to get them to stay in bed to fall asleep or not worth it since they'll become dependent on the TV to fall asleep. My daughter now is 11 months and pretty much figured out how to climb out of her crib, it scares me though because she's so small and I know she'll probably fall out & get hurt if I don't get to her in time. It's also been hard to put her to sleep because before I would let her lay in her bed and put herself to sleep but since she's learned how to climb I'm afraid to do that without being in the room and then of course she won't fall asleep if I'm in there. At the same time though she's way too little to be sleeping on a mattress on the floor. I don't know what we're going to do about her...I don't think putting her in a cage is an option, but have no idea how else to keep her sleeping in her bed safely, lol. At any rate, I'm sure within about a week or so he will get used to it :) Good luck!

My 18 month old has been in a toddler bed for 2 months now. She was always climbing out of her crib, so I switched her. I have to make sure she is asleep before I leave the room still or she will get up and wander around. Once she is asleep though she is good for the night.

hi silly chick! oh that is a cute scene! but to answer your question, no, i have not experienced that. but i can only imagine because i don't have a child yet. just wanting one, but have not been given yet. so i guess this is one thing that i will have to face later on when i do have my own child. anyway, i hope everything turns out well for your family. wishing you the best. good day and God bless you! :)

I forgot how my eight year old son's transitons went. It is funny how they grow up fast and you end up forgetting their early years. I know that my son always slept in his own bedroom. Unfortunately we disupted his pattern since we had to move to a one bedroom for some years while we were moving house. So he got accustomed to live in our bed when he was around 4years old for some months and it took some months to make him sleep on his own.

when our girls were big enough, we didnt put them in a toddler bed (they were just over the age of 2) we put them in a regular bed (with bars on the side) and told them this was a big girl bed...sure we had issues, but they settled down eventually.

All three of ours were fine with it. My youngest (2) sometimes crawls out of bed and puts all his bedding in the closet, closes the door and sleeps in there. Or he crawls under the bed. He seems to like confined spaces, lol. When it was especially hot one night, he went to sleep on top of the vent. Of course, we always move him back into bed. However, for a while hubby and I were making fun bets on where we would find him, before we went in to check up on him, lol. Oh, they are so cute when they are little.