Q&A: 让孩子和你睡在一起

读者: 387    发布时间: 2008

原文: Q&A: Letting Your Child Sleep In Your Bed

Each week Michele Borba answers your parenting questions right here on her blog. If you have a parenting problem or question leave a comment on this post and you may have yours answered next week!


I have a 8-year-old son that still sleeps with me. I started it when he was 2 years old. He had exema and was up about every 2 hours and I had to go to work the next day. It was easier to roll over and put the cream on and go back to sleep then to get out and go to his bed and do it. I have tried everything to get him in his bed. Bought him a new bed and redid his room twice. It is up staris from my room. He has a night light and can spend all day up there playing video games and watching cartoons... even into the evening. But when bed time comes in in bed with mom. My husband sleeps on the couch since the bed is not big enough for the 3 of us. HELP!!!!!!
--Ginger


I wish I had an easy solution but then that's not how parenting goes, right? So here's the long and the short. He's eight years old and it's inappropriate for your son to be sleeping in a bed with you. Period. You already know this but I want to reinforce your instinct. Second this is the age when sleepovers start and for other kids to hear about your sleeping arrangements can cause major damage on the social scene. But most important--this is going to (if not already) cause a major wedge in your marriage. Your husband belongs beside you in that bed. Not your son

You've tried all the "nice" options. You're left with one solution. Tell your son clear and simple that from this moment on he belongs in his bed. That's it. Expect resistence. Expect a fight. And expect him to test you. He'll gradually give up the fight as long as you DO NOT GIVE IN. Your son has to know you are serious.

You and your husband plan your "united front.". If you need to warn the neighbors that there may be a bit of a rucus in the evening they will understand

No guilt. No second thoughts. Just do it, Mom! I'm cheering you on. (And do it tonight--you owe it to your child, yourself and your marriage). Do it!

译文: Q&A: 让孩子和你睡在一起

 
      每周Michele Borba都会在她的博客上回答您提出的育儿问题。如果您有育儿难题或疑问请在此留言,您将在下周得到答复。
 
问题:我8岁大的儿子还和我睡在一起。这是从他2岁的时候开始的。他患有浓缩血症1,每两小时就醒来一次,而我第二天还要上班,因此,翻个身给他擦药然后接着睡觉要比下床到他的床边去方便得多。为了让他到自己的床上睡觉我已经尝试了所有的方法。给他买了新床,还将他的房间重装了2次。儿子的房间在我们楼上。他房间里安有夜灯,他可以整个白天都在房间里玩电子游戏、看动画片……甚至可以呆到晚上,但一到睡觉的时候他就非要和妈妈在一起。我们的床已经挤不下3个人了,我老公现在只好睡沙发。幇幇我!——Ginger
 
回答:我希望能教您一个简单的解决办法,但育儿可不是简单的事,对吗?那么,我就详解和扼要一起来吧。您儿子已经8岁大了,他和您睡在一起是不合适的。您已经明白这一点但我还想增强您的意识。其次,这个年纪正是小朋友在家过夜晚会开始的时候,而其他小孩知道您家的就寝安排后肯定会给这一社交活动带来很大破坏。但是,更重要的是,这将会(或已经)给您的婚姻带来重大裂痕。睡在您身边的应该是您的先生,而不是您的儿子。
 
     您已经试过了所有“温柔”措施,您现在只剩下唯一的办法。这就是清楚明白地告诉您儿子:从现在开始他只能在他自己的床上睡觉。或许会有反抗,会有争吵,他或许还会试探您的决心。只要您不让步他就会慢慢屈服。您儿子会知道您是认真的。
 
     您和您先生要安排好你们的“联合战线”。提前告诉你们的邻居你们家晚上可能会有些吵闹,他们会理解的。
 
     不要有负罪感,不要犹豫,就这样做吧,妈妈!我为你加油!(今晚就开始——为您的孩子、您自己和您的婚姻)。行动吧!
 
     别退让!

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浓缩血症exemia,原文为exema(查无此词)。