Is it okay to co-sleep sometimes?

Lots of times parents don't mind if kids sleep with them sometimes - just not every night! Or they think it's okay if it's after 4 or 5 am.

But here's the problem with allowing co-sleeping sometimes... kids don't know the difference! Your child doesn't understand that it's okay to crawl in your bed at 5am and not 2am. They don't have that sense of time. Your child doesn't realize that you're letting him sleep with you because it's Friday and you don't have to work tomorrow but on Sunday you don't allow it.

With most kids, once you let them know that sleeping in your bed is an option, they are going to keep coming back.

So, if you are trying to get out of a co-sleeping situation and putting in all this hard work, I recommend you make your bed off limits for a few months.

And then after that, once sleep is awesome and constant co-sleeping is a thing of the past, if you want to start Saturday morning snuggles once in a while, that's fine.

But the rule is - if you don't want kids in your bed, don't them in!

And this course gives you two detailed strategies for how to do just that.