2 Year old falling asleep on sofa

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My son has always been amazing at going to bed on his own, we’ve had a few bumps in the road but they’ve never lasted over a week and he’s always gone back to being put in his own bed and settling himself.

He’s 2 this month and about a month ago we hit another bump. He’s been either falling asleep on the sofa with us watching telly or in our bed at a reasonable time (8pm ish) and we are able to move him to his own room and he sleeps through.

Honestly, I’m not hating the system we have going but I’m worried we might be getting him into bad habits with his sleep. Will we be able to get him used to a bedtime when he’s older and it starts becoming an issue? Should we be making him go in his own bed from now and what techniques should we use if so?

I would not worry at all. DD1 would only ever fall asleep by being cuddled on our bed. I felt bad about it as I felt I should be encouraging her to fall asleep in her own bed. Just before she turned 2 & a half, she said to me evening that she wanted to go to bed in her own bed!!! So now she goes to bed every night in her own bed & sleeps through the night. I think you go with your child’s pace - I have never sleep trained & happy that I never did as she figured it all out on her own eventually :-) (although I did have to wait 2.5 years for it!!!)

Did this with my eldest until she was 4 and still doing it with my youngest now at 3.

As long as he’s not waking in the night and needing you to stay with you until he’s back to sleep then I wouldn’t worry 😊

Mine used to fall asleep in the sofa when she started nursery, at 3, and slept the whole night. She is really a good sleeper now.
As a baby she would wake up several times in the night, and nap in the day. But after she gave up naps after starting nursery and school, she happily sleeps all through. No issues.
It never worried me.

My youngest was about 4 before he started going to sleep in a bed and even then it was my bed! I used to leave him on the sofa while I washed up etc and he would fall asleep and get carried up. Then he went to sleep in my bed and I would carry him through when I went to bed. Or rather I would sneak in next to him and snuggle and let dh carry him through when he came up! Just go with the flow, he's only little and if he feels more secure falling asleep close to you then let him. At some point he will feel secure enough again to go to sleep in his own bed. My youngest is 9 now and though he will sleep in his own bed he still likes mine best and reads and falls asleep there most nights.

So he used to go to bed fine but now he's falling asleep on the sofa? Before or after the bedtime routine?

Thank you all so much for your replies, I think I just needed some reassurance I wasn’t ‘spoiling’ him as the routine is working for us at the moment.