At what age should a little girl stop sleeping with her daddy at night?
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I don't really think that matters. I am sure she doesn't think of her father the way she thinks of a boy she likes in school.
Really I think you should step back for a bit. Allow her the time she needs with her father. I don't know what the living arrangement is between himself and his ex for the child, but i can bet, since she is from a split home, she needs to extra attention. Please don't interfere with that, for her sake.
Good Luck
if the little girl is growing up, she should probably make sure she stays in her own bed at night or she might have some issues later on in life.
well, i dont really think parents should sleep with their kids from the beginning, co-sleeping is a very hard habit to break
the fact that you are asking the question shows that you have some degree of discomfort with this practice.
This should have been stopped [or not even started] but certainly needs to be stopped right now, as a teacher if I overheard a child saying that she snuggled and cuddled with her daddy EVERY night then I would be duty bound to report it for the child's safety and welfare even if it later turns out to be innocent....
Just as a thought is this child YOUR bio child or is she a step child [always assuming that this is in your family dynamics] IF so then this is her way of asserting "rights" over her father and basically ousting out the mother.
Whichever way you view this, the whole practice needs to be stopped and she needs to gentle have it pointed out that she is way too big to be having to sleep with her daddy.
Regards
I don't think that she should be sleeping with him maybe if she was doing once in a while because she was under 4 and scared that there was a monster in her closet ok i understand it, and even then he should just stay with her until she fell asleep. same for a boy and his mommy.
I think at 9 years old, she should be sleeping by herself. I think that this is innocent, but co sleeping should have been stopped years ago. My girls slept in our bed till they were almost 4. I insisted on it, my hubby was against it, so he shooed them to their bed. They still snuggle with daddy everynight for about 5 minutes. But that is their time to talk with him. If they miss snuggle time, they are upset. All 3 of them, including hubby has grown to love this time together. I join in sometime and the girls share things about their day, etc...It's completely harmless.
I would encourage this with the 9 yr old and her father. Have a set snuggle time before bed, then you need to sleep alone. Maybe he can stay with her for 10 minutes and slowly make it a shorter time when he leaves the room. It can happen, it will just be hard.
Just tell her that she's a big girl, and its time for her to sleep alone. Be nice about it, dont make a big deal because you dont want to make her feel like something's wrong with her. But be FIRM. Unless you think something illegal is going on, let them work their way down. Like she can sleep with Dad tomorrow night, but not tonight - phase it out. If you have suspicions that something else is happening, then it ends NOW, and this discussion takes a whole new turn.
Are you the girl mother , if so you should talk to your husband and tell him it's not wright to do it any more.
That should stop at 4-5 years old talk to your husband and tell him that you think it's time to be a big girl and sleep by herself
I had a friend, at 15 she was still sleeping with her parents it was really fricken weird and it happened because they let her go to bed with them her entire life, really sad.
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I see this as a problem that you already know is there...otherwise you would not have ask the question. I do not think that any child sleeping with an adult is right. I understand that she may want to be close to her father but daddy needs to sit her down and explain to her that she is older now and daddy needs to sleep in his room and she must sleep in her room as well. Of course, she will probley disagree with this since she sees this as being right..but it should stop now before anything is said.
yeah, it's been too long. time to implement a plan to phase her out of that. cuddling before bedtime, with a story or something, is fine. but she's too old to need dad, or mom for that matter, to sleep with.
Good luck to you!
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