Do you remember how your parents put you to bed?

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Alone. Sometimes I'd sneak a book in with me. I had my teddy so I didn't need my mother - even when I had a nightmare. I remember crying myself to sleep too and yes, it does have a certain smell to it! And my parents being noisy downstairs but shouting at us to go to sleep when we couldn't!

My sister would be allowed to go into Mum's bed but not me - I guess my sister needed it more. I think I was told off once (age about 6) and that means don't do it ever again, my sister would persevere more.

When I was little we had bedtime stories, but that stopped when we were both at school, maybe a bit before for me. But when my sister was at school I was 7 and reading things like Famous Five all by myself so it was easier to just let me read alone.

[Astrid]

I remember often waking up in my mother's bed, could never remember how or when I got there. From what I can gather mum slept better with me there (she was single most of my childhood). Can't really remember how I got to sleep, just that when I was 5 or 6 bedtime was after the Sullivans.

[~Trish~]

My mum always tucked us into bed with lots of cuddles, a story and a prayer

I spent many a night climbing into her single bed when I was afraid, it was so squishy with the two of us that she'd wait until I fell asleep and then hop out and sleep in my top bunk bed LOL.

My mum was such a safe place for me, very important because I didn't have a dad to protect me.

[fionas]

Mum says that as a baby I wouldn't go to sleep so she used to let me stay up until she went to bed - at about midnight!!! Mum's a night owl and I am too, even now. I can be buggered all day but will miraculously then be wide awake at 10pm.

I don't remember sleeping in my parents' bed but I'm sure they would have let me if I wanted to because they let their 8-year-old grandson sleep with them when he visits!

I do remember mum reading me stories while I was in bed until I was old enough to read on my own and then I'd do the usual toddle off to bed without a fuss because I knew I could then stay up till all hours with a torch under the blankets.

So for me going to bed did not mean sleep, it meant reading. And that was a very, very difficult habit to break.

[meow]

Aww... some lovely memories. And also some very strong sad memories- good on you girls for changing things for your children.

When I was 12 I think the puberty hormones hit me hard and I went through a stage of nightmares and bed wetting. I used to hop into my Mum's bed (divorced then) but she made me feel really unwelcome so I stopped doing it. Instead I would lie in my room wishing soooo badly to hop into her bed and feel safe. It always makes me aware of how parents may think the cosleeping thing has been 'fixed' but have no idea that it's not fixed at all and instead their child is actually suffering. I don't want to do that.

[LisaL]

We used to get tucked in - and even when I was till home at 24 mum used to tuck me in on the nights i was home and going to bed early. My brother and I shared a room until my teens so he used to jump in with me if he was scared.

My gran lived with us too, so every morning we would jump into her bed for morning cuddles. I did that right until I moved out (at age 24).

So i dont have any bad memories really. I do know though that as a newborn I refused to sleep at night, so mum would put me in the pram and dad would rock it with his leg while they slept. Awwww.

[[M]umma[M]ia]

i remember when i would pretend i was asleep and mum would come in and tuck me in and kiss my forehead and tell me she loved me. Everytime she did that i fell straight to sleep. Weird that. I miss the smell of my bed when i was little. it was always so perfect and ironed and smelled like mum. its funny the small things u remember....

[Ozziehoffy]

Hmmm nup nothing for me! I used to read a book under my covers with a torch though...lol. We didn't sleep in our parents bed or mum's after they divorced. On the VERY odd occasion we may have gone in there in the morning for a little while, but nothing that sticks in my memory or has a good memory to it. Maybe because when mum and dad were separating they called us into their room and onto their bed to tell us??

I still most nights go and tuck Joshua in and give him a kiss and tell him I love him and he's 15. He doesn't care that I still do it, sometimes he'll lay there having a chat with me.

[BellyBelly]

Thats so sad Cailin