Never wake a sleeping child?!

[rabbitheadlights]

DD (just turned 4) has taken to climbing out of bed in the night and going to sleep on the rug she pulls her pillow and a blanket with her. DP thinks we should lift her back into bed, but she wakes up EVERY SINGLE TIME and then screams blue murder that she wants to get up etc etc. I think she's fine, the house is plenty warm enough and leave her be.

So who is BU

ME - YABU it's cruel to leave your child sleeping on the floor.

DP - YANBU she'll be fine

I would put her mattress on the floor

If she screams when you move her, I’d leave her be if she’s warm enough.

The voting has confused me. But at 4 she will be fine

I’d leave her.

I would leave her there.
My DS17 still occasionally likes to sleep in the floor!

Why does DP think that waking them up and having a screaming child is better than a peacefully sleeping one??

My DS went through a phase of sleeping on the floor by choice.
We offered him a mattress on the floor, but he preferred the carpet.

After a month or so he went back to sleeping in the bed.

Didn't bother me.

My daughter loves sleeping on the floor. She is almost 13 now so had plenty of years of doing it and is fine. When she was still in her cot (but around the age of two) she would wake in the night but we found all we had to do was plonk her on the floor and throw her covers over her and she would roll over and go straight back to sleep.
She has a perfectly good double bed now which she sleeps in most of the time but will sometimes build a nest of quilt, blankets and cuddly toys on the floor.
If your girl is asleep leave her be !!

My DS slept on the floor by our bed for a couple of months around age 3 or 4. No big deal! As long as they’re happy - and it doesn’t sound like yours is happy being moved 😄

Mine would wake up at certain time in the night, not others, at least now I know.

It sounds more distressing to move her than anything else, maybe try a mat or small guest mattress.

He just thinks it's "tight" to leave her on the floor which I would agree with if we lived in a cave, but we don't and like a PP said why cause the distress she's obviously perfectly happy.

If she has happily taken herself there, then leave her be. Especially if moving her can't be done without a crying fit.

I have a DH who prefers to sit on the floor. He's done it in every house we have, despite having numerous lovely comfy sofas. Worst part is we have a hard floor downstairs now, but he still prefers to sit there.

Leave her be. My DD used to get out of her perfectly comfy bed and sleep on the bathroom floor! She'd take her pillow and blanket and camp down between the bath and basin. I can't think of anywhere more uncomfortable and cold. But she loved it.

At 4-5 I went on family camping holidays and slept on thin camping mats and survived. I'm sure she'll be fine. If you are worried you could put an air mattress on the floor.

Dd has a mattresses on the floor, next to her bed. She gets off the mattresses and sleeps on the carpet.

Leave her be, kids are weird.

DS insisted on sleeping in the wardrobe on holiday. There was a bed for him. We left him to it.
If your DH insists on moving her he should be dealing with the crying/awake child.

YANBU what's the problem? As long as it's clean on the floor then leave her be. If she was that uncomfortable she'd wake up anyway.

@rabbitheadlights

He just thinks it's "tight" to leave her on the floor which I would agree with if we lived in a cave, but we don't and like a PP said why cause the distress she's obviously perfectly happy.

Tight?

Bit tight is what other people call a person.

Who even needs to know?

It's not like she hasn't got a bed

Better to give her the autonomy. She clearly likes the rug. Just, y'know, wash it occasionally.

From being too old for his bouncey chair ds napped on the floor!! As a toddler he would grab a big cushion off the sofa and fall asleep almost instantly!

I'd leave her there as long as she seemed happy (and asleep).

Lots of people, both child and adult, find a 'nest' on the floor more comfortable and secure to sleep in. I did it most at a similar age to the OP's child because I got fed up of falling out of bed during dreams - what mostly stopped it was my new kitten deciding my chest was the best place in the house to go to sleep on, so I stayed still for her benefit.

DD2 would shut herself in the wardrobe with a cat if she'd gone to bed in a grump and one morning, I found DD2 asleep in the cat basket, the cat asleep in the dog bed and the dog sleeping in DD2's bed.

I also wake up fairly frequently to find that DP is in a ball halfway down the bed in a nest, I'm half over the side of the quilt he's used to make the nest and curling round it whilst there's one cat at the top of the bed and one sausaged out in whatever gap she can find at the bottom.

In short, it's a fairly natural human instinct for some people to sleep lower down - and culturally normal for many, many people compared to beds raised off the floor.

Just leave her be where she wants to sleep.

She’s choosing to do it; she could climb back into bed if she was uncomfortable

leave her! Good grief! This too shall pass. If she gets uncomfortable then she'll wake up and then you move her. Just leave her to it.