I've seen some great articles on this, like this one describing the "sleepeasy solution".The complication is that we have a 20-month old, who sleeps beautifully. I read him stories, turn out the lights, leave his room, and he goes to sleep on his own and sleeps through the night. He is on a mattress on the floor, so he can get up and leave if he wakes up and thinks there is action. I don't know how well he would do with crying all night long in the room next door or in the same room as him.With the 5-year old, he will only go to sleep in our bed, with one of us laying next to him. Once asleep, we move him to his mattress, next to our bed. A few hours later, he usually climbs into our bed. His rotating and rolling wakes us up, and we move him back, and sometimes he stays sometimes he is gets upset and climbs back.One suggestion I saw on facebook was to reward him with a present the morning when he stays in his bed all night. We could try that. Though, we would rather give do it with him sleeping in his own room, but maybe we need to accept baby steps.On the other hand, the bedroom the toddler is in actually locks from the outside, so we could do the cry it out method on him, and move the toddler to a different room. We would just talk him through it from the other side of the door. But that seems too traumatic.The linked article suggests start by sleeping all night, on the floor next to him where he is supposed to sleep. But, I think he would just sleep on the floor next to us. We don't know until we try though. Should we do this in our guest room, where he would eventually be alone, but easier for the toddler to not be disrupted? Or do it in the same room as the toddler, so he isn't by himself?What should we do? This kid is really attached, by the way. Last night, he wanted someone to walk him to the bathroom after dinner because he didn't want to go by himself. Meanwhile, he does fine in schools and camps and stuff like that. Thanks in advance. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2eX4bdY
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