Do you go in and kiss your children goodnight when you go to bed?

[Hulababy]

I always go into 3yo DD's bedroom before I go to bed to check on her and to kiss her goodnight.

I can't imagine if they will stop, or when.

I know even as teenagers my parents would come and say goodnight (if we were awake) when they went to bed. And my mum says that even if we were asleep she'd come and kiss our foreheads - right until we left home.

I used to when they were smaller, now dd is 5 and ds is 3 I haven't done it for a while. DD wants kisses and cuddles at bedtime but ds really isn't bothered and most of the time jsut takes himself off to bed. Rather sad really.

I kiss DD and tell her 'mummy loves you to the stars and back' every night when i put her in her cot. I then do the same when i go to bed. and probably about 3 other times during the night .

When i still lived at home when i was 17 i still kissed my parents goodnight, every single night without fail and f i did't I would go back and do it.

I tuck them in and check lights, teddies etc. Dont usually actually kiss them unless I am feeling partic. soppy or have seen something vile on the news. Sometimes push hair out of their faces and marvel at how gorgeous they are now and how irritating they will be at 6.30am

Call me a crap mummy if you like, but I never do. We have hugs, kisses and I Love Yous before she goes to sleep, and then that's it. I know she's safe, warm and comfortable (she would let me know otherwise) so I can't see any reason to disturb her.

thank god wwb

lord, no. I only go in if I think the window needs opening or shutting or whatever.
Otherwise, never, never wake a sleeping baby. or toddler. or risk it.
you know it makes sense.

No Ninah, I doubt it. But mostly only those who do are posting.

I sometimes kiss DD1 goodnight, but can't open the nursery door without it making a loud noise (old paint - every now and then I vaseline it to avoid this happening) and so at the moment, I don't go in to DD2s room cause she is nost likely to wake up and be difficult to put back to sleep.

I always smile to myself as I pass the two rooms now containing sleeping children that were for so long just "spare rooms"...

I always kiss my parents goodnight before going to bed when we go and stay with them...

Not on a daily basis, no. But at present ds2 has just moved into his "big bed", so my going to bed ritual includes going into his room to pick him up from the floor and put him back into bed...

I do yes, but I also go in to scoop her off the floor and put her back into bed! She sleeps on the floor every night! I usually sneak in to kiss her every time I go up to the loo as well! D and I playfully fight who gets to scoop her back into bed as it's favorite thing to do!

Yes, always. And if I get up to go to the loo in the night I always check on him in his room, make sure he's not too hot or cold and usually sneak another kiss and a sniff. Something so sweet about that sleepy little boy smell.

I always do, even with dd1 who is 18 now (when she's at home) - it really pi$$es her off actually.
Certainly don't think you're a 'bad mummy' for not doing it though - in my case probably a lot of it is 'paranoia' and quite often I have wakened up dd3 (18 months) who is a very light sleeper, so in some ways it's quite counter-productive.

I don't. I go in and turn her night light off if she's gone to sleep with it on but that's it. we do our good nights when she get's into bed and I wouldn't want to disturb her.

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Kisses are all at bedtime,but I sometimes go in and just look at them. They are growing up fast but always still look a little babyish when asleep.

It's a bit spooky as well, because they are mostly,laying in exactly the same position as each other.
Makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck!!

We sleep in the same room, so I just tiptoe in and try not to disturb him as I get into bed. I know I will be seeing plenty of him before the morning (serial nighttime breastfeeder) so I don't feel the need to say a last goodnight.

We do have a nice routine saying goodnight before he goes to sleep, though. He has to have a set number of kisses from his dad and then his dad has to kiss me a set number of times as well. If Daddy is not at home I have to pretend he has left some under the pillow for us! (bleeurgh, this is all a bit cutesy isn't it?)

I would but DS2 is such a light sleeper that he quite often wakes up - I creep in and kiss DS1 and just look at DS2 and wave!

yes, I do. And I tried to tell them that they weren't allowed to get out of bed once they'd been kissed goodnight, but it didn't work.

Yes they are 11 and 3
I cannot sleep until I've checked them and tucked them back in
I am not stopping with ds until he is able to stay up later than me!

Yes although I am so clumsy I regularly get told off by dh for waking him up when I trip up on the way out!

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Yes, have to...otherwise I couldn't sleep and I often have to rearrange him in the bed so he doesn't fall out or get cold.
My Mom used to do the same to me, right up until I left home...

I don't go into DS's room (21 months) - used to but then it coincided with him waking up in the night and given that I am waking up enough in the night with his 38 week brother or sister, I value my sleep .

He gets kisses and cuddles and I tell him how much I love him when he goes to cot though.

yes, and to turn his star off.....

ds (4) hates kisses, so I go in at night to kiss him whilst he's asleep. He still frowns! Doesn't wake up though - both of mine are dead to the world by then, and it would take a lot more than a kiss to wake them. In fact, had problems the other night when had to keep rousing dd every two hours (after bump to the head). She was very reluctant to prove she was OK!