DS is 3.5 . He's quite a strong willed boy in a lot of ways but he usually sleeps all night.
In the evenings he will have a story, take a few trains into bed and go to sleep by himself. He likes the door open and main light on as he likes to hear us potter about which is fine.
We've just been on holiday and stayed in an apartment. First night he freaked out in new room so I lay with him till he was asleep. This then continued for the rest of the week - I was fine about it, not ideal but he felt insecure in a different place so whatever.
Now we are home and he wants this every evening. Massive tantrums if I don't or just runs around the house shouting that he doesn't want to go to bed. I work from home in the evenings and it takes him ages to fall asleep so I really don't want this to continue- I'd hoped he would drop it at home but annoyingly I seem to have started a new habit.
I'm tempted just to put a stair gate over his door and let him shout and scream for a couple of nights at his age - he's not a baby and he's been perfectly capable of going off to sleep alone till now. But I feel mean, obviously, because no one likes to hear their little ones crying for them. DH reckons just leave him to it but I'm hesitating.
Wwyd?