"Mama I want to sleep with you"

@allknowing (153530)
India
October 11, 2021 5:32am CST
I am not talking about your children or grand children but about you. Were you able to sleep without your mother beside you. I slept with my oldest sister as mother had my baby brother to care for. What put you to sleep. Did mother sing for you? Image credit:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Child_sleeping_in_mother_hand.jpg
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@nela13 (59365)
• Portugal
11 Oct 21
Yes, my mother put me to sleep but I started to sleep in my own room quite early.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Oct 21
You were an independent girl surely
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@nela13 (59365)
• Portugal
12 Oct 21
@allknowing yes, I am
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@kanuck1 (4424)
11 Oct 21
I'm in my seventies now. As a child we lived in a duplex with a basement where the donkey was kept lived, We had one room on the first floor which was kitchen, dining room and living room and a room on the second floor which was accessed by an outside stairs which was our bedroom. Yes, our bedroom, where my parents slept and my two brothers. We just went to bed and slept. I don't remember anyone singing.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Oct 21
You must have forgotten as most kids are put to sleep by singing lullabies
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@kanuck1 (4424)
15 Oct 21
@allknowing It's possible. I remember very little from my childhood.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
11 Oct 21
I don´t remember ever being in my parent´s room.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Oct 21
How old were you when you slept on your own?
@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
11 Oct 21
Nope, I had my own room and my mother would read me a story and then I went to sleep.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Oct 21
What if you woke up? Were you not scared?
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
12 Oct 21
@allknowing No, as a matter of fact I had a room on the second floor and my parents were on the first floor.
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@Fleura (35034)
• United Kingdom
11 Oct 21
My Dad used to sing me songs when I was a baby, he was the one that had the patience for that sort of thing.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Oct 21
Father sang well too but the responsibility to putting all of us to sleep - 8 of us was mother's (lol) Do you remember how long your father woudl sing for you?
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Oct 21
@Fleura I understand (lol)
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@Fleura (35034)
• United Kingdom
11 Oct 21
@allknowing When I was a baby apparently he would sing to me until my eyes closed, then tiptoe to the foot of the stairs, but the moment he put his foot on the first step my eyes would pop open again. He used to tell me this with a laugh and I thought it was a funny story - that was until I had the problem of getting my daughter to sleep and then it wasn't funny any more.
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@Vree0937 (3878)
• Indonesia
11 Oct 21
I still sleep with my 5 yo. He will need me to scrub his back until he fall asleep
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Oct 21
Who needs who? (lol)
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@Nawsheen (28761)
• Mauritius
12 Oct 21
I used to be a coward when I was a kid. My mum would usually lie by my side until I fall asleep and then she would leave.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
19 Oct 21
Most mothers did that
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@prinzcy (32299)
• Malaysia
19 Oct 21
I slept with First sister when we were young. No one put us to sleep.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
19 Oct 21
The older siblings took the place of mother sometimes
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@sprite1950 (30461)
• Corsham, England
16 Oct 21
I don't ever remember sleeping with my mum. I shared a bedroom with my sister but that was it.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
19 Oct 21
Same here
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
11 Oct 21
We were very independent children. We all slept in our own beds and needed no singing or story telling. I only slept with Mom when I was a baby when Dad was at sea.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Oct 21
I notice that is how it was and is in your country
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• United States
11 Oct 21
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@jobelbojel (36796)
• Philippines
11 Oct 21
When I was a kid, I can't sleep without my mother beside me.
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@dya80dya (36805)
11 Oct 21
No. I remember when she read stories.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Oct 21
So she read stories.
@Sojourn (13833)
• India
11 Oct 21
I can remember my late grandmom's lullabies more distinctly.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Oct 21
And also as you grew older you must have been told how it was when you were a baby
@Yadi22 (218)
• Indonesia
12 Oct 21
I want to sleep with you too baby, so cute
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