To let dd sleep on the floor?

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My DD is 5. She has refused to get into her bed 3 nights now because there is a teddy missing and has insisted on sleeping on the floor instead. My mum is horrified I am letting her. Aibu to pick my battles?

My DS used to go through little phases of wanting to sleep on the floor, making a bex with his blanket, pillow and duvet. I let him go to sleep and then put him back in his bed later.

My ds slept on the floor for a year through choice. Every now and again he goes back to it. I just let him get on with it

If she’s actually going to sleep there, then agree let her do it.

When I was little I used to love sleeping anywhere other than my bed. I was allowed but not on a school night. The laundry basket was my favourite. I’d often slept in random places when sleeping at friends. Friends parents used to find my on the steps or window sills.

My 8 Yr old has a little foam bed on our floor and she comes in most nights around 2. She is going through a scared phase and I'd hate to be scared and forced to still stay on my own. It doesn't bother me one bit.

A friend of mine slept on the floor until he was 20. His girlfriend forced him to buy a bed when she moved in.

It won’t do her any harm sleeping in the floor, and as a previous poster said if she is uncomfortable she can get into bed.

My daughter used to like sleeping in the floor, and she still does from time to time and she is 12. It baffles me by she does but she will just make a bed on the floor and stay there for a few nights.
And when her friend comes over the choose to sleep on the floor even tho she has a massive double bed

My toddler likes to sleep on the floor sometime. We bought her a nice, soft, fluffy sleeping bag so she is warm and comfortable. But at her nap time today she just took her bedding off her bed, curled up on the floor and went to sleep. Doesn't bother me, if she wasn't comfortable I'm sure she wouldn't do it. Don't see the point in making bed time an unnecessary battle

Not a hill worth dying on OP. If she’s comfy and she’s sleeping then it won’t do her any harm. Next time something like this happens just don’t tell your mum - she doesn’t need to know and you don’t need her opinion.

Nah, she'll soon get in bed if she wakes up uncomfy but then again I'm the parent who lets my children not wear their coats when it's freezing if they refuse because I know they'll soon change their minds when they feel how cold it is.

Unless there’s a massive drip feed about how her room has no heating and the floor is rough stone tiles or you need to stay off the floors at night incase of vermin/snakes I really can’t see the harm in her sleeping on the floor.

It’s a rod for her own back, if she thinks it’ll magically get teddy back let her do it. She can get back into bed if she’s cold or not comfy.

I was the mad child who slept in a hammock for a year, I wanted a hammock, dm said I’d never use it.. I’ve gone back to a normal bed

Unless there’s a massive drip feed about how her room has no heating and the floor is rough stone tiles or you need to stay off the floors at night incase of vermin/snakes I really can’t see the harm in her sleeping on the floor.

😂 Fabulous!

I used to sleep on the floor in my 20s, I think I liked the solidity of it. 💁‍♀️

Why on earth is your mum so horrified? In the great scheme of things it's pretty harmless.

When my dd was younger she often slept on the floor, usually making herself a bed on the landing or in our room next to our bed. It looked pretty uncomfortable to me but she liked it and always slept well. She tried a bed in the bath once but that must have been less cosy because the experiment wasn't repeated.

I had a highsleeper bed with a wardrobe/desk type thing going on when ideas younger, I slept underneath it behind the wardrobe I loved it, I stuck loads if blankets and pillows in there and it was comfier than the actual bed - scared my mum a few times when she couldn't find me though

They like the adventure of wild sleeping.

I am totally stealing the term 'wild sleeping'.

Let her sleep on the floor ! She isn't going to catch a disease down there.

My dd used to sleep in the floor all the time. Her choice by the way..

Literally on the floor, with no mattress or air bed? That’s so uncomfortable!

I used to prefer the bathroom floor when pissed. I slept better. It's still good the next day when hungover. I also used to bring my quilt downstairs and make a bed on the frontroom floor when hungover too. My mum just let me get on with it.

Ooh I used to enjoy sleeping on the floor when I was young to, in the landing sometimes, pillow and blanket. And definitely have slept in a bath before. Quilt under and around for comfiness.
Even slept on floor in heatwave to be closer to window and breeze.

I tend to disagree with some of the post on here, a child on the floor can be stepped on. I dont know if there are others in the house, a partner that may forget, but it is also a fire risk blocking a way through to a window etc. Or god forgive, a fireman looks for her in bed and she's on the floor. Making a fuss over a lost teddy, she would have to get over it if it was lost while on holiday etc. Get her an identical one, I dont see what the lost teddy has to do with sleeping on the floor. are you sure its not defiance.

I slept in a pop up tent on the floor for a whole year during year 6

@Notodontidae

She wouldnt be blocking a way through in a fore, because her mum would pick her up first

Firefighters are very use to looking for children, very rare will a child be in bed, they will often be in a wardrobe or under the bed

@cdtaylornats that made me chuckle

Yep, let her crack on, it's her sleepless night if she wants to be stubborn and it's uncomfortable. She'll soon learn.