Is this normal for children?

[Turnthevolumedown]

I have a 12 and 9 year old. Both boys. They have their own rooms but insist on sleeping in my room any chance they get. So DS1 drags his mattress into my room and ds2 happily snuggles into my bed. It used to be once a week ds2 was allowed to sleep with me and it was literally the highlight of his week.

It's been about a week since they were forced back into their rooms (we all had Covid so they were allowed in my room while recovering), and Friday night DS1 was hinting he misses my room but I ignored it as I want a lie in with it being the weekend. They wake up too early!

I love having them close but I don't know any other kid of their age who does that. Friends describe their DC hopping into their bed in the mornings but not all night like these two do. I thought kids liked their space. Like I said I don't mind and love the company, and I know they won't do it forever but is it unsual? I co-slept with them when they were born could that be why they're still surgically attached

My 11 year old twins (and their younger siblings) sleep with me any chance they get. If they don't sleep with my from bedtime, then they're likely to join me part way through the night, or certainly in the morning.

One say I will get to sleep alone ....

DS is nearly 10 and sleeps with me. He has his own comfy bed but just prefers to be in with me. Poor DH is in the spare room.

Ah that sounds adorable sorry, I'm probably no help, I love it when my 4 year old wants to come in for cuddles.

My boys age 9, almost 10, and 7 sleep with me in my bed every night. I’ve given up on even getting them into their own room. So much so that the other two rooms are not even used except for clothes at the moment! We co-slept from the start (accidentally, they just wouldn’t sleep without me) and although we’ve had periods of sleeping apart we are now all a bit co-dependent on it! They do go to their dad’s two nights a week where they sleep in their own beds and of course I get the bed to myself and get to feel like a grown up. I sometimes get frustrated with it but also absolutely love it at the same time. I figure they won’t want to sleep with me when they’re 15 but who knows! My current ‘they will sleep when’ is when we move to an unfurnished place as we are just renting temporarily since I split up with my husband. It IS a three bedroom place so we could be sleeping separately. But we are not.

I think it's normal. I never co slept but mine went though a phase of wanting to come in with me between the ages of about 10 and 12. No idea why. It stopped when puberty started. I kind of miss it now.

God that would drive me bonkers. If you just keep putting them back to bed they will go. But if it works for you then grand.

My kids are very little and they sleep with me. I have no idea when this will stop, but I'm actually rather heartened to hear of older children on this thread still getting in their mum's bed.

I have a three bedroom house and my 11 year old son sleeps with me in my bed every single night (never ever slept in his own bedroom)
I spent so much money on doing his room up. It just sits there looking nice.
My son is severely autistic though, so probably won't get a night to myself for years yet.