she's almost 9 years old and she's always insistent that her daddy sleeps with her at night and snuggles and cuddles. i don't think a little girl should be sleeping with her daddy anymore once she starts to show an interest in little boys (this girl has said she *likes* a boy at her school). any opinions?
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ly 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
the fact that you are asking the question shows that you have some degree of discomfort with this practice.
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.
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.
Your sex life must suck
well, i dont really think parents should sleep with their kids from the beginning, co-sleeping is a very hard habit to break
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.
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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ly 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
the fact that you are asking the question shows that you have some degree of discomfort with this practice.
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.
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.
Your sex life must suck
well, i dont really think parents should sleep with their kids from the beginning, co-sleeping is a very hard habit to break
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.
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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