Right, I'm writing this sat on the floor outside DS2's room having spent the last hour or so trying (unsuccessfully) to get him to stay in his bed.
So I'm after some advice, or support, or both!
I would say ds2 is an 'average' sleeper - not problem free, not as brilliant at it as his big brother but not as bad as some people have it (and for that I am grateful!)
He moved to a proper bed when he was 2 and on the whole that has gone ok. The problem we're having now is a recurrent problem from the cot days - in the cot days he'd wake up and cry, now he is in a bed he gets out so I don't think the bed / cot is the problem (or solution) - the night waking was the same.
When he wakes he will normally stay there nicely if someone sits in the room with him. BUT it could take him 2 hours to go back to sleep. I would say it takes him at least an hour to do so. So this means I'm sat in with him for 1-2 hours each time he wakes in the night. Some nights he sleeps through but on average I'm probably in there 4 nights a week.
We occasionally have the same issue when he goes to bed but this is less often. Again he'd stay there nicely if I'll sit there for an hour or so.
So what should I do? Am I being unfair to not want to get up and sit in with him?
DH works and I don't so of course I do the getting up. Sometimes if he isn't working the next day he might get up, but to be fair he works almost every weekend as well as all week so he doesn't do it often! But he just says 'why don't you just sit in with him - it's only 5 minutes?' (it's not - I can tell the time and everything!)
So since the weekend I've been trying just putting him back to bed (again and again and again). He woke up about an hour ago and I've probably put him back in bed about 50 times in that hour (I haven't counted but it's a bloomin lot!). Then he'll go quiet for a couple of mins and stay in bed and I think I'm getting somewhere and then it all starts again.
What am I doing wrong? This is breaking me 
. He has cried so much in the last hour . When people do this 'putting back to bed' are the children crying for 90% of the time? I feel like a monster!
Apologies for this being such a rambling post, and well done if you got to the end of it!