At what age do you stop going in to kiss your chilren 'Goodnight' when you go to bed? Will I be doing it when hes 19?

[flubdub]

My ds1 is three and a half, and there has only been about three nights that I havnt been in to his room, before I go to bed, to kiss him and check hes ok.
Will I still be doing it when hes a strapping teenager??

Yes. I still kiss ds (12) goodnight (and remove ipod and book at the same time, and the torch he uses to read under the bedclothes too!). He sometimes tells me things then that are bothering him and that he didn't mention earlier in the day, so it's good.

I still check on my 10.5 and 8.5yos before I go to bed, but now their sleep is lighter I sometimes wake them up

DS1 is 16 and DS2 is 14.5. We stopped the kiss goodnight thing when they were about 11 or 12. We were led by them really. Now we just pop our heads around the door and say goodnight

When we go to stay with my mum, the last person to go to bed always kisses the others goodnight. - I'm 40 and given that it was a tradition that we had with gps cannot see it ending ever

I'm guessing that you stop when they tell you to?

As in, you're going to bed before they do ...

Yes you will. If he lets you. Well I will.

I kiss all of mine including DS1(15.5). I have no intention of ever stopping (apart from when they move out/away).

I didn't carry them for 9+ months not to get a goodnight kiss!

aww.i cant imagine not doing kisses goodnight!

Will do so till they move out

ok, will carry on indefinately then
Aslong as he doesnt do what I used to do; my lucky number was 17, so always had to give my mum 17 kisses when she put me in bed!

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ermm once my DC are in bed I don't go into them.

They have a kiss before THEY go to bed - but when I go to bed it's straight past their room and into my bed for me.....and always has been

you're supposed to kiss them goodnight after you've already put them to bed and kissed them? Why did nobody tell me this?

I always pop into dd's (she's 8 now) room on my way to bed.
I don't kiss her though as that would wake her up. I usually have to pull her covers up.

I also dont kiss the kids (4 and 1 1/2) when I am on the way to bed - what if I woke them up??!! We creep past as quietly as possible - no way would I open the door if I didnt have to.

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I occasionally remove the small library and stack of toys from their beds and manhandle them back under covers .. that must count for something surely?

I don't think I ever went to kiss DS goodnight once he'd settled! I used to tiptoe up to the door and look/listen to make sure he was sleeping ok when he was tiny, but he was always a light sleeper so no way I'd have risked waking him.

oh I think I'll be doing it for years DH always laughs at me if I forget and then have to get up and go and give them a kiss in the middle of the night

I don't kiss them when I go to bed - I might wake the buggers up - though I do always go in and gaze adoringly at them for a moment or two. They have a kiss when I tuck them in though and I'll do that for as long as I'm allowed.

Do I take it one step further then?
I always kiss him four tmes, and just before each kiss, I say the same thing every night.
i.e
Night night sweetheart
love you baby
sweet dreams precious
sleep well baba

oh god, thats GROSS!! It makes me want to puke
I think its more of an OCD thing than anything, as I cant sleep knowing I havnt said it.
Jeez, let the laughing commence!

I still kiss my 14 year old child

flubdub - I can't laugh as I have my own routine. I used to be able to lean into his cot and kiss him, now the base is as low as it'll go I actually have to swing over the bar upside down to kiss him!