How did you get your toddler to sleep through the night with out any aid

[Roxymm]

My friends have asked and i repeatedly have asked other people

How do you get your toddler to sleep through the night?
And when if she or he wakes, how did you train them to go back to sleep themselves?

Just time I guess? DS was about 2.5 when he slept 12 hours reliably.

What ever the need to get to sleep at bedtime is what they need to get them back to sleep when they get into light sleep.

So mine had a cuddly toy each, some used thumbs to suck on, some had dummies...

They all slept through reliable from a young age < 4 months.

Watching with interest as DD1 still wakes up and needs to co-sleep (she's 3 in November).

we always fed ours to sleep if they woke in the night. Still do if nec and DS2 is 2.6. A bottle of milk always settles him. He mostly sleeps through though