Almost three year old suddenly not sleeping in his bed...

[dodi1978]

Until a week ago, DS2 (almost 3) was a good sleeper - bed at about 8 o clock after a good routine of bath, book etc. Not any issues.

Now, suddenly, he says "Don't like bed" "Not sleepy time", and we can't get him to stay on his bed. At all. He has now fallen asleep on his bedroom floor, with the door open.

We are absolutely lost for what to do. Rapid return is tricky as he'll make himself stiff an scream the house down (there is DS1 to consider too...). We kind of think that, for the time being, we'll just go with the flow and just teach him to at least stay in his room to go to sleep, even if it is on the floor.

Any ideas???? He doesn't quite get bribery yet, e.g. "If you sleep on your bed, you get...."

We cut all daytime naps at nursery last week. Some nights he had only about 8 hours sleep and survived well. Could this be a hormonal change, just making him really wired? Will he grow out of it?

Any suggestions welcome!

No advice but our dd spent almost a year choosing to sleep on the floor 🙄

We tried discipline, bribery, new bed (!), new bedding, nightlight etc etc. Nothing worked.

One day she just changed her mind and chose to sleep in the bed again.

We just made sure that the carpet was clean and she was warm enough.... she must have been comfy as she would sleep through in a deep sleep.

Kids are weird.

Similar thing here, been going on for 3 ish months. DD waking in the night and refusing to sleep in her bed. Tried ignoring (but live in a flat so mindful of neighbours when she starts screaming), tried sitting next to her bed, tried standing outside the door. Only thing that works is if she gets in to our bed. Am knackered as I don’t sleep well at the best of times

Thanks for the responses. It feels good not to be alone with this.
He slept on the floor the full night yesterday, just with his blankie, no pillow or anything. Was fine today - fought sleep at nursery and was granted a 20 minute nap, but then woken up again.
On the floor again today. I managed to turn the light off earlier on but his head is near the door so I can't close it.
One thing we won't do is to let him go to our bed. We only have a double and are not sleeping well (and far too little) as it is.
I believe letting him sleep in our bed once about two weeks ago, when he woke up genuinely scared in the night, sparked the whole thing....
So, for the time being, we are just going with it. My husband has ordered a bed tent to see whether this sparks some interest in the bed. We'll give one to DS1 first in the hope that this will spark some jealousy...