My son won't sleep in a bed.
By 4monsters4me
@4monsters4me (2569)
United States
October 19, 2006 9:20pm CST
Do you find that strange? I do. As a toddler he had a twin mattress that he slept on. When we moved last year we left the bed behind. Instead he slept on this foam mat we had. They are quite comfortable and I spent many nights on one while I was pregnant so I could get some sleep in the living room when my husband snored.
Now he has a toddler bed in his room (he is 5). He is a little big for it but it works for now. Problem is--he refuses to sleep in any bed of any kind. He prefers to sleep on the floor. We ask him every night to sleep in his bed or on the mat and he says he doesn't want to. Sometimes he lays down on them and in the morning I find him on the floor in his room or his sisters' room. He is just so strange.
7 responses
@courtlynne77 (4839)
• United States
20 Oct 06
I don't think that it is too strange and I also think that he will grow out of it if you do not make a big deal out of it. Both of my younger brothers did this. The would sleep in the hallway outside of their rooms, on the floor of my bedroom, my parents room. My mother never made a big deal about it and eventually they moved into their own beds. As long as he is getting a good nights rest and isn't wandering the house while you are asleep he should be fine.
@dragonflyfli (5528)
• United States
21 Nov 06
every kid that is a todler hates to sleep in their own bed and finds comfort in the parents bed cuz they feel safer. try giving him /her your shirt that you wore all day to sleep with him/her. this will let your child smell your scent and hopefully feel safe enough to sleep.
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@4monsters4me (2569)
• United States
21 Nov 06
I don't think that is true about toddlers. My kids had no problem sleeping in their own beds as toddlers. They never sleep in my bed even when they are sick. When they are sick they sleep in the living room, usually with my husband. And in any case, my son is not a toddler. He is 5. He used to sleep in a bed. He moved from the crib to a twin bed at 20 months and slept in it until he was almost 4. Then we moved and he only had the mat to sleep on and since then he only sleeps on the floor.
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
21 Nov 06
Kids have what I call "animal instinct"....want sleep on any place that is not going to give them comford. Maybe he is alergic to his own mattres and his instinct is pushing him way from it. Secondary, maybe he does not want to be alone. Give him more time and "security". We all wasnt to be close to each other, that's human nature. Buy new bad for him, let him pick up good size. I would not sleep in bed that's to small(sort of claustrofobic feeling).Move around furnitures in his room, so is more inviding (feng shu). Give him maybe small music player and play his favorite story. I was sitting with my baby every night and telling her story till she fall asleep.
Very powerfull and very bonding.
best wishes!
@4monsters4me (2569)
• United States
21 Nov 06
He says he doesn't want to sleep alone. He was fine before we moved and right after then it got really hot and there wasn't a fan in his room so he slept with his sisters because they had a fan. Now he won't sleep in his own room. Problem is when all 3 kids are in the same room together they stay up playing until 10pm-midnight and my oldest daughter has to be up for school at 7am so they can't do that so I have to separate them. I don't have a choice. The younger two go to sleep just fine when they are separated.
I'm not going to buy him a bed he won't sleep in. It is just a waste of money. They destroy everything so why buy it for them to wreck and never use. When he is ready to sleep in one we will get him a bed.
@sherinek (3320)
• United States
20 Oct 06
I think its a phase and it will pass off. I dont find any harm sleeping on the floor. Actually it is healthier than sleeping on the bed I think. Let him choose whereever he wants to sleep as long as you are sure no bugs, mosquitos or other sort are there to attack him.
@4monsters4me (2569)
• United States
20 Oct 06
I don't really have a problem with it. I don't make him sleep in his bed, I only suggest that he do it because I think he will be more comfortable. I still think he is strange. My dad went balistic when we stayed with him this summer and found my son always sleeping on the floor. My dad is obsessed with beds for some reason.
All I know is we are not spending money on a bed for him until he decides he is going to sleep in one.
@dragonsangel1369 (341)
• United States
17 Nov 06
When my sister moved my nice to a "big girl bed" she had to same thing happen, but my sister always found her under the bed. So he is not being so strange. My 14 year old sleeps on his floor too. I have asked him why and he told me the bed was just to small for him to be comfy. your son will start sleeping in his bed again if he is like my nicce. till he does make him a pallet and let it go there is nothe wrong with it if you ask me. then again he could he like my son and just can't get confy in a bed that is almost too small. Some of us just need more room to sleep than others.
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@crystal8577 (1466)
• United States
8 Dec 06
For the longest time Catie would only sleep on a bean bag. I am not sure how we got her to sleep in her bed again.
@netguru007 (155)
• India
20 Oct 06
I dont know what to reply, but i dont find it strange kids can be hard some time. He'll improve as he grows up.
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